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Interview: Ross McCall on feature directing debut, ‘A Violent Man’

Releasing into cinemas and on demand services this weekend is the terrifying prison drama A Violent Man, the debut directing effort from Ross McCall. Ross has been in the business for 30 years, acting in the likes of White Collar, 24: Live Another Day and Green Street, to name but a few. He’s also written and produced the recently released About Us, and appears in this weekend’s AppleTV+ series Suspicion, and the forthcoming The Offer, a limited series revolving around the making of The Godfather. He’s certainly busy, but he took a little time out to have a detailed chat about A Violent Man and all of those upcoming projects.

Ross McCall in ‘A Violent Man’

A Violent Man is the story of a violent and dangerous prisoner, Steve (Craig Fairbrass), incarcerated for double murder in a maximum-security prison, and wracked with inner turmoil about his past sins and unquenchable need for carnage. When Marcus (Steven Odubola) becomes his new cellmate, and a daughter he has never met finally requests a chance to meet her estranged father, Steve must reconsider his nihilistic outlook and brutal outbursts. When Marcus becomes the victim of a revenge attack, Steve steps in to save him and they both become marked men, their sentences set to be cut short, the hard way.

Related: Steven Odubola talks up his role in A Violent Man

You can check out our full, 30-minute interview with Ross below where he speaks about shooting the film at the height of Covid in the UK, casting and assembling a superb team to shoot the film, and how the idea for the film came to be.

A Violent Man is in cinemas and on-demand from 4th February.

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