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Ray Stevenson Biography

George Raymond Stevenson (born 25 May 1964) is a Northern Irish-born English actor. He is known for playing Titus Pullo in the BBC/HBO television series Rome (2005–2007) and in film as Dagonet in King Arthur (2004). Stevenson has portrayed two Marvel Comics characters: Frank Castle/The Punisher in Punisher: War Zone and The Super Hero Squad Show; and Volstagg in Thor and its sequels Thor: The Dark World and Thor: Ragnarok. In the film Kill the Irishman, Stevenson portrayed Cleveland mobster Danny Greene. In 2012 he appeared in the seventh season of Dexter as Isaak Sirko. He also portrayed the character Blackbeard in the third and fourth seasons of Black Sails.

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Blackbeard was larger than life. He was 6'4" in 1710. He was a colossus, and like a rock star walking into a bar. He was a tremendous commander, a great leader.

Leader, Life, Like, Rocks, Stars, Tremendous

When you're wearing jeans there's a shift in your center of gravity. A costume like this and a character like this, there's no way to hide. If you try and play him any way sort of modern or normal, you diminish. He's larger than life. He's 150 percent. You've got to go for it all the time. It was just impossible.

Center, Character, Jeans, Like, Play, Wearing

Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.

Course, Giving Up, Hurt, Kill, Personality, Saint

History is written by victors and, occasionally, sensationalist journalists. I mean that with the best respect.

History, Journalist, Mean, Occasionally, Sensationalist, Written

I like bringing little subtle complexities to a character. It's all about the subtext. No one can really describe or fully know another human being, even if they get a hook on them. It's more about instinctively knowing whether you like somebody or not.

Character, Fully, Hook, Human, Knowing, Like

I consider it an actor going to work with other actors. It's not a competitive sport, it's not to outact anybody else, sorta thing, you can be a bad actor but you don't outact anybody, you just bring your character as best as you can.

Actors, Character, Outact, Sports, Thing

The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.

Brought, Flavor, Names, Pirate, Vane, Violent

As an actor, I love working with directors. As much as I love working with other actors.

Actors, Directors, Love, Working, Working With Others

Life itself is pretty funny when you realize how absurd it can be.

Realizing, Absurd, Funny, Realize, Pretty

There's not a lot of direct back story but you do get to see them playing around each other a lot.

Direct, Playing, Playing Around, Stories, Story

You just have to open the newspapers in most Western news to see real violence.

News, Newspapers, Real, Violence

I didn't want people to go out wanting to go tool up against the bad guys (and at impressionable ages). I said, don't shy away from the violence or pull back on this, commit to this.

Against, Age, Away, Guy, Impressionable, People

It's all about the integrity of their characters. They [Marvel] care so much about the loyalty and integrity of each and every character and all of their stories. They trust and love their readership. They're the ones who have invested in these stories.

Character, Integrity, Love, Loyalty, Readership

Hence the genius of having Ken steer this ship as well. You have to invest these characters with a Shakespearian quality and not in a way that might disengage the audience but in a way that actually lets you play to an audience.

Character, Play, Quality, Ship, Steer

They're {Marvel] the ones who have went out and bought the comic book whenever it came out. They're the real investors. They serve them. Having a chance to be part of that Marvel Universe is just - well, it is what it is. It's just fantastic.

Real, Book, Chance, Comic, Serve, Universe

The way Shakespeare wrote Fallstaff is with a heightened language and everything.

Way, Language, Epic Stories, Shakespeare, Heightened, Fallstaff

If the project piques my interest and scares me a little bit, then it's got me hooked.

Interest, Littles, Pique, Piques, Scare, Scares

[Pirates] are a victim of their own success. People have identified with pirates in a comic and caricature sense.

Caricature, Comic, People, Pirate, Victim

I suppose you just feel on an instinctive level if something is honest.

Levels, Honest, Feels, Suppose, Level

The weird thing is, in America, people were saying, "You're not going to get recognized because all you're going to see is basically your forehead and eyes. "

America, Basically, Eye, People, Recognized, Thing

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