Dean Winters with Michael Nyqvist in John Wick
I crashed the New York magazine interview of a favourite actor of mine, Dean Winters, whom I remember so well as the chief villain’s consigliere, Avi. (Along with a thousand other credits, including from Law & Order whose set I had just been on as I was staying with my dearest friend from university, Hugh Dancy, who leads the current series, and his wonderful wife Claire Danes in Manhattan.)
Dean, and the journalist Nate Jones, were in the oldest bar in the city, The Ear at 326 Spring Street, near the Hudson (actually, where the Hudson river used lap against the front door.)
NEW YORK MAGAZINE: VULTURE – “I excuse myself to use the restroom. When I return, Winters is deep in conversation with the man sitting next to us: a British writer named Alexander Fiske-Harrison, who is working on a book about wolves (The Children Of Wolves.) On the walk up, we had started talking about relationships. There were a couple of times that Winters had come close to settling down, but it had never happened. It was no one’s fault, he said. He supposed it was never too late to have children, but he didn’t really want to be a 70-year-old dude with a little kid.
Now, a fuller story emerges. One of Winters’s exes had remained in his life, but they’d had a falling-out. He despaired of ever seeing her again. Outside the bar, Alexander presses him: “Did you do the full back-down? There are two ways to apologize. One way is, ‘I’m really sorry if what I did offended you.’ And the other way is, ‘I’m very sorry.’” Among the men around him, opinions vary on what Winters should do. Alexander shares his own tale of romantic turmoil [see The Daily Mail online here]. Then for the next 15 minutes or so, Winters and I go silent as he entertains us with accounts of interviewing bullfighters in Spain.”
Alexander's Journal 