No more Mr Tough Guy

East Ender and ex-boxer Ray Winstone is known for playing hard men and bruisers, but actually he’s a devoted family man and quite a nice guy.

RAY WINSTONE is worried about ‘the law’. “I’m a bit uncomfortable being here. I keep feeling I could get nicked,” the actor says of being interviewed at the King’s Inns, Dublin, where earlier this year he shot Sky HD’s new series, Moonfleet. He adjusts his Michael Caine spectacles and I half-expect him to clutch his lapels and do a Del Boy chin thrust. ‘Awright?’

The Law that Winstone is so worried about is all around us. It’s in the wood panelling and the portraits on the walls of King’s Inns, Dublin, where earlier this year he shot Sky HD’s new series, Moonfleet. It’s a tale of derring-do, set in 19th century Dorset. Winstone plays a smuggler with a heart of gold. He’s good at that: playing the rough ‘diamond geezer’.