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Eddie Marsan on Playing a U.S. President in ‘Franklin,’ Amy Winehouse’s Dad in ‘Black to Back’ and Staying Under the Radar
Eddie Marsan has managed to stay under the radar even while playing a U.S. President in 'Franklin' and Amy Winehouse's dad Mitch in 'Back to Black.'
The resulting publicity maelstrom was, Marsan says, “intense.” And yet despite that, the actor – who has starred in over 150 screen projects including “Ray Donovan,” “Deadpool 2” and Guy Ritchie’s “Sherlock Holmes,” can truthfully claim to be “not really that famous.” “I said, well who wouldn’t want to do a scene with Michael Douglas?” He was particularly looking forward to a Laurel and Hardy-esque moment in which Adam and Franklin have to share a bed while fleeing the British, although sadly it was cut before they shot it. “I had to go over to America for people to change their idea of me because every part I was offered, because I come from the East End, was a bank robber, a drug dealer, a BNP [British National Party] racist or whatever.
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