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Winstone: keeping quiet

Even when the guy brought the script out to me to read, he had to sit there while I read it!

Ray Winstone
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Ray Winstone told Andy and Helen he couldn't tell them too much about the new Indiana Jones film because then he'd have to kill them!

The ardent West Ham fan stars alongside Harrison Ford in Steven Spielberg's latest epic, which has been shrouded in mystery ahead of its release later this month.

Winstone revealed that the media black out spread far and wide and admitted even he hadn't seen the film yet!

"I don't even know if I'm in it!" he joked. "I must be because I'm on the poster, but all I did was read the script and made the film.

"They don't really need a premiere because everyone kind of knows what they are going to get with a film like that I think.

"And you know its Steven Spielberg and you know it's going to be a good film because I don't think he's made a bad one."

Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull is the fourth film in the much loved series and comes nearly 20 years after the last instalment and Winstone told Soccer AM he wasn't even allowed to read the script by himself when he got offered the part.

"Even when the guy brought the script out to me to read, he had to sit there while I read it! But in a way it's a good thing because you watch a trailer on the TV and you know the whole film.

"And it's great when you go to the cinema and you don't know what you're going to get and I think that's kind of the beauty of going to the cinema."

Scorsese

In recent years Winstone has worked with some of the best directors in the industry and he explained how a glowing reference from the Oscar winning director Martin Scorsese landed him the part.

"I actually got the job because I worked on The Departed with Martin Scorsese and I think they [Scorsese and Spielberg] met at some do and talked and that's how I got the film", he explained.

"They phoned me up and asked me if I would be interested in doing it and I said I'd like to read the script. And they said well do you want to do it and I said well, I'd like to read the Script!

"Because I wanted to know if I was even going to be in it. If you're going to do a film like that you want to be in it, there's no point in turning up and then you end up on the cutting room floor."