Interview: Winstone's bulldog spirit
He won fame as a gangster hard man, but Ray Winstone's lead role in the new drama Moonfleet sees him travelling all the way back in time to 18th-century Dorset. Joanne Hayden met him in Dublin.
Few people could charm a table by talking about biscuits. But in the grand, somewhat unlikely surroundings of the King's Inns in Dublin, Ray Winstone's short monologue on HobNobs is proving a hit. It's not what he says - that once he starts on the HobNobs he can't stop, that he likes the chocolate - covered ones (milk chocolate that is, not dark) - so much as the way he says it, as ...
