The Jason Statham film that caused an Oscar-winning actor to retire from cinema: “I hated him so much that I fired all my agents”

The Jason Statham film that caused an Oscar winning actor to

Jason Statham has already starred in numerous action films. While there is no doubt that Statham almost always delivers, this can vary from film to film not necessarily claimed For every crank and every transporter, there are also some weak works in his oeuvre that are forgotten.

One of these works is Blitz – Cop-Killer vs. Killer-Cop, which was filmed in 2010 and released in cinemas a year later. Statham can be seen in it as a hardened police officer who does everything he can to catch a serial killer. For his co-star Mark Rylance, the Turn to hell and he was forced to take drastic steps.

Jason Statham film scared Mark Rylance out of the cinema – only Steven Spielberg could bring him back

The terrible experiences Rylance had on the set of Blitz led him to to turn away from the cinema and to concentrate fully on the theatre again. Two years ago he revealed to Big Issue (via Espinof):

I gave up film acting around 2010 when I was in a terrible movie called Blitz. I hated him so muchthat I fired all my agents.

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Mark Rylance in Bridge of Spies

Ultimately, Rylance found his way back to the cinema. The man responsible for this was none other than Steven Spielberg, as the actor reveals:

I thought, screw it, and stopped applying for more film roles. Of course, nature hates a vacuum, and suddenly came [Steven] Spielberg on one of my playsthat I was performing, and that’s how this whole thing came about.

By “the whole thing” Rylance means his cinematic comeback, which he celebrated in 2015 in Spielberg’s historical film Bridge of Spies. The thriller set in the Cold War even brought Rylance the Oscar for Best Supporting ActorHe then appeared in Spielberg’s BFG – Big Friendly Giant and Ready Player One.

The horror of the Statham thriller is forgotten: Mark Rylance feels comfortable in the cinema again

Meanwhile, it looks like Rylance has a Balancing his film, TV and theatre roles In the cinema he was most recently seen in the fantastic Bones and All. The new Wolf Hall series is about to start on television. And on the stage he is currently playing one of the leading roles in the play Juno and the Paycock.

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