Interviews: Eddie Marsan, Burn Gorman & Barnaby Roper On Their British Gangster Movie, All The Devils Are Here

Think British gangster movies and you think Michael Caine in Get Carter (1971), or Bob Hoskins in The Long Good Friday (1980). Those were the heydays of the uncompromisingly dark and gritty mob thrillers that British cinema made their own, but every decade has its own versions, from Lock Stock to Layer Cake. But for All The Devils Are Here, debut director Barnaby Roper has gone back to the 60s for a story that strips crime of any of its apparent glamour.

In the aftermath of a botched heist, three criminals and the “company accountant” find themselves having to lie low in a remote cottage. Their leader, Ronnie (Eddie Marsan), is tired of his life of crime and determined that, once the dust has settled, this will be his last job. Grady (Sam Claflin) is a loose cannon with a fiery temper and a love of provoking people, while Royce (Tienne Simon) is a rookie driver who’s grown up in the care of the mob. The fourth member of the group, Numbers (Burn Gorman), keeps himself very much to himself in his room, enjoying his favourite pastimes – the songs of Cilla Black and drugs. Stuck inside the four walls of the run-down house, it’s only a matter of time before nerves begin to fray.

It’s a story that was especially inspired by movies of the 70s and 80s – and more, as Roper explains in the interview below. His starting point for All The Devils Are Here was the gang behind The Great Train Robbery in 1963 and how they were holed up in a farmhouse in the Chiltern Hills, waiting for a national manhunt to calm down.  Lead actor Eddie Marsan considers how Bob Hoskins was the key to the way he approached his character, while Burn Gorman reveals that constantly listening to Cilla was no hardship whatsoever. He also admits that any similarity between the wallpaper we see behind him in the interview and the cottage’s decor in the film is purely coincidental!

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All The Devils Are Here is on digital channels from September 26^th.

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