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Movie tough guy Jason Statham's new role - as a house builder, writes RICHARD EDEN
He has an almost unrivalled talent for delivering terminal justice with fists or firearms - on screen.
It was the authenticity of Statham's street presence — and the physicality which saw him selected for England's diving squad for the 1990 Commonwealth Games — that persuaded Guy Ritchie to cast him in his 1998 box-office hit, Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels. As lovesick Will Thacker in romcom Notting Hill, Hugh Grant watched Julia Roberts' Anna Scott on screen at West London's Coronet cinema. The bio on his webpage (written in the third person) reads: 'The only point of this website is to convince people to give him [Orson] work so he can afford more tattoos and feed Margarita, his pet chihuahua.'
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