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\nGuy Ritchie<\/p>\n
Vinnie Jones has revealed he and director Guy Ritchie had a tearful reunion on the set of The Gentlemen after they drifted apart “through the booze”.<\/p>\n
Ritchie cast Jones as gamekeeper Geoff Seacombe in the Netflix crime comedy after the pair did not speak for a “long time”.<\/p>\n
Jones revealed a rift happened between the pair after he turned down a role in his 2008 crime comedy film RocknRolla, which starred Gerard Butler and Tom Wilkinson.<\/p>\n
\nGuy Ritchie<\/p>\n
Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, he said: “We drifted apart through the booze.<\/p>\n
“Guy rang me about RocknRolla, and I was f****** drunk, and I went, \u2018No, I want this, I want that.\u2019<\/p>\n
“And Guy said, \u2018Really?\u2019 Very calmly. I went, \u2018Yeah, yeah, yeah.\u2019 And then I didn\u2019t hear from Guy for quite a long time.”<\/p>\n
Theroux asked Jones if Ritchie would have said he “got a bit big for your boots”.<\/p>\n
Jones, who is now sober, replied: “Yeah, exactly. Missed out on a lot, and then he held out an olive branch.<\/p>\n
“Maybe I was about 10 years sober, and maybe that\u2019s when he may have called me and went, \u2018Okay, I\u2019m going to give you another chance\u2019 sort of thing.<\/p>\n
“I don\u2019t know. We\u2019ve never discussed it. I don\u2019t know. But he was nice enough to hand out the arm of brotherhood, because we are brothers. That was a remarkable meeting.”<\/p>\n
The pair had an emotional reunion when filming of The Gentlemen began.<\/p>\n
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\nThe Gentlemen<\/p>\n
Jones said: “We were doing the first scene on The Gentlemen. I was a bit apprehensive, and I\u2019d gone in the trailer, and I didn\u2019t want to go over to his trailer and all the things.<\/p>\n
“So I thought I\u2019d be professional. I hadn\u2019t seen him for a long time.<\/p>\n
“But it was the funeral scene in The Gentlemen. And we film it as the opening scene, first day on set.<\/p>\n
“Guy is coming on set. So, we\u2019re all stood round, I had f****** butterflies. I was like a teenager. I\u2019m like, f****** hell.<\/p>\n
“But I\u2019m trying to look cool, he comes walking towards us and he just walks straight at me. Walked straight up and just went bang.<\/p>\n
“F****** hell, both of us in tears. All the crew and everyone was like, f****** hell, that was a moment. Never got mentioned.<\/p>\n
“We got on with it, and away we went. I haven\u2019t spoken to him about that, but I know him well enough.<\/p>\n
“Some things don\u2019t need f****** talking about all the time. It\u2019s hard telling you that.”<\/p>\n
A representative of Ritchie has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere during the interview, Jones spoke about his career in Hollywood, saying the industry is “very lonely” and “ruthless”.<\/p>\n
Referring to his finances, Jones said he “was spending it as quickly as I was earning it” while starring in Hollywood films and he did Celebrity Big Brother in 2010 to pay off a tax bill.<\/p>\n
He said: “I had five houses at one point, and f****** Bentleys and Rolls-Royces and f****** BMWs, and they all need paying for. You got to keep going, you know.<\/p>\n
“The bags get heavy, and, and the wheel gets faster. You know what I mean?<\/p>\n
“So there isn\u2019t real rhyme or reason to what you get. I swear to God, I turned down two million dollars last year for I\u2019m a Celebrity.”<\/p>\n
He added: “I did Big Brother for a million dollars, but I needed it. I had a tax bill.<\/p>\n
“After everyone carved it up, I actually did it for nothing. Taxman this, you owe that.”<\/p>\n
Jones played professional football from 1984 to 1999, for teams including Wimbledon, Leeds United and Chelsea.<\/p>\n
He later moved into acting and has appeared in films like Snatch (2000), Gone In 60 Seconds (2000) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006).<\/p>\n
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