'Downton Abbey and Peaky Blinders in the mix': Vinnie Jones on Netflix series The Gentlemen 

Screen Scene: Vinnie Jones tells Esther McCarthy about his role in The Gentlemen, the new Netflix series created by Guy Ritchie 

Vinnie Jones in The Gentlemen on Netflix. 

Vinnie Jones was still playing professional football when Guy Ritchie first cast him as smooth criminal Big Chris in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels in 1998.

Jones didn’t realise it then, but he was about to embark on an entirely new screen career and his star status was confirmed when Ritchie cast him in Snatch two years later.