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26 March 2012 12:11 PM, PDT | WENN | See recent WENN news »

British actress Jaime Winstone was so determined to land the role of a tough street kid in Bullet Boy she started a brawl at the audition.

Winstone, daughter of veteran actor Ray Winstone, applied for the part of Natalie in the gritty 2004 drama and was invited to a meeting with casting directors to try out for the role.

And she was so obsessed with proving she could play the part of a street-hardened youngster, she let her fists do the talking.

Winstone tells You magazine, "I was pretty outspoken, and this casting director invited me to audition for Bullet Boy as a street kid. I ended up getting into a punch-up in the audition, which I think helped me get hired - they saw that I had a genuine anger and passion." »

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27 January 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - TV News | See recent The Guardian - TV News news »

'My earliest memory? Eating under my grandmother's dining table. I wouldn't eat at the table ever until I was about 10'

Ashley Walters, 29, was born in London, where he went to the Sylvia Young Theatre School. As a teenager, he performed in the West End and had roles in the television series The Bill and Grange Hill; he was also part of the rap collective So Solid Crew. In 2004 he starred in the National Theatre's production Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads and the acclaimed film Bullet Boy. Last year he starred in Channel 4's Top Boy series and he is in the new BBC drama Inside Men, which will be on air in February.

When were you happiest?

My primary school years.

What is your greatest fear?

That I won't succeed. Other than that, I'm scared of birds.

What is your earliest memory?

I used to eat »

- Rosanna Greenstreet

27 January 2012 4:06 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

'My earliest memory? Eating under my grandmother's dining table. I wouldn't eat at the table ever until I was about 10'

Ashley Walters, 29, was born in London, where he went to the Sylvia Young Theatre School. As a teenager, he performed in the West End and had roles in the television series The Bill and Grange Hill; he was also part of the rap collective So Solid Crew. In 2004 he starred in the National Theatre's production Sing Yer Heart Out For The Lads and the acclaimed film Bullet Boy. Last year he starred in Channel 4's Top Boy series and he is in the new BBC drama Inside Men, which will be on air in February.

When were you happiest?

My primary school years.

What is your greatest fear?

That I won't succeed. Other than that, I'm scared of birds.

What is your earliest memory?

I used to eat »

- Rosanna Greenstreet

24 January 2012 2:25 AM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Jaime Winstone and Russell Tovey are old friends, and about to co-star in a new play about a one-night stand. They talk to Maddy Costa

Like all coincidences, it feels both bizarre and perfectly obvious that Russell Tovey and Jaime Winstone have known each other for years. The two actors spent their adolescence in Essex, though they were hardly neighbours: Tovey grew up in Billericay, and Winstone moved from London to Roydon in her early teens. But he happened to go to the same drama club as Winstone's older sister, Lois. "She's been in my parents' house, in the garden," he says, nodding over his teriyaki lunch at Jaime, a dishevelled figure sitting beside him. "She was so cool. I remember I saw you once in a club, you had a pair of snowboots on, and I thought: 'She knows what she's doing.'"

"Oh my God, them really chavvy Diors! »

- Maddy Costa

4 items from 2012