A few days ago we told you how Tom Cruise, part-time savior of Hollywood and full-time reckless man, boosted the careers of Matthew Vaugh, Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham after praising the fantastic ‘Lock & Stock’ in front of a group of distrustful executives. ‘. Well, before this, the good one Jason had a past that had little to do with the movies.
As Mikel explained to us a couple of years ago, Statham was on the verge of participating in the Barcelona 92 Olympic Games as a member of the British swimming team, of which he was a member for a whopping 12 years. But today we will focus on the period that covered from his trampoline jumps to his debut in front of the cameras in 1998.
Pools, streets and sets
During the first half of the 90s, the future actor was forced to combine his work as a model for brands such as Tommy or Levi’s and his brief appearances in video clips with the peddling; activity that his father already developed and in which offered fake perfumes and jewelryas he himself explained in interviews with Esquire or Today Show.
Her luck changed dramatically in 1997, when she was working as a model for French Connection and they introduced him to a Guy Ritchie who was taking the first steps of his career with a project under his arm that needed actors. Ritchie, after learning about the interpreter’s trajectory in the black market, decided to give him a chance and sign him to play Bacon in ‘Lock & Stock’.
statham He has always been grateful to Ritchie for the decisive role he has played in his life.and he has expressed it in multiple interviews, such as the one he gave to BBC News, in which he commented the following:
“I’ve been tremendously lucky. I’ve been in the right place at the right time. I’ll always be grateful to Guy Ritchie though, because he was selling perfume and jewelry on the street and he offered me the role that changed my life.”
The professional relationship between Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham has given us many joys, including the aforementioned ‘Lock & Stock’ and other titles like ‘Shatch. Pigs and diamonds’, ‘Revolver’, or the recent ‘Wake up the fury’ and ‘Operation Fortune: The great deception’. If this is the average level, never stop working together.
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