Vinnie Jones had falling out with director Guy Ritchie ‘through the booze’
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Speaking on The Louis Theroux Podcast, he said: “We drifted apart through the booze.
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“Guy rang me about RocknRolla, and I was f****** drunk, and I went, ‘No, I want this, I want that.’
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“And Guy said, ‘Really?’ Very calmly.
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I went, ‘Yeah, yeah, yeah.’
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And then I didn’t hear from Guy for quite a long time.”
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Theroux asked Jones if Ritchie would have said he “got a bit big for your boots”.
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Jones, who is now sober, replied: “Yeah, exactly.
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Missed out on a lot, and then he held out an olive branch.
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“Maybe I was about 10 years sober, and maybe that’s when he may have called me and went, ‘Okay, I’m going to give you another chance’ sort of thing.
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“I don’t know.
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We’ve never discussed it.
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I don’t know.
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But he was nice enough to hand out the arm of brotherhood, because we are brothers.
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The pair had an emotional reunion when filming of The Gentlemen began.
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Jones said: “We were doing the first scene on The Gentlemen.
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I was a bit apprehensive, and I’d gone in the trailer, and I didn’t want to go over to his trailer and all the things.
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“So I thought I’d be professional.
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I hadn’t seen him for a long time.
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And we film it as the opening scene, first day on set.
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“Guy is coming on set.
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So, we’re all stood round, I had f****** butterflies.
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I’m like, f****** hell.
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“But I’m trying to look cool, he comes walking towards us and he just walks straight at me.
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“F****** hell, both of us in tears.
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“We got on with it, and away we went.
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I haven’t spoken to him about that, but I know him well enough.
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“Some things don’t need f****** talking about all the time.
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It’s hard telling you that.”
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A representative of Ritchie has been contacted for comment.
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Elsewhere during the interview, Jones spoke about his career in Hollywood, saying the industry is “very lonely” and “ruthless”.
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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.
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He said: “I had five houses at one point, and f****** Bentleys and Rolls-Royces and f****** BMWs, and they all need paying for.
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You got to keep going, you know.
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“The bags get heavy, and, and the wheel gets faster.
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You know what I mean?
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“So there isn’t real rhyme or reason to what you get.
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I swear to God, I turned down two million dollars last year for I’m a Celebrity.”
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He added: “I did Big Brother for a million dollars, but I needed it.
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I had a tax bill.
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…and 4 more, not listed.