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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/hurt-reluctant-over-brighton-rock.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="John Hurt was reluctant to join the cast of Brighton Rock" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-hurt-reluctant-over-brighton-rock.jpg" alt="John Hurt was reluctant to join the cast of Brighton Rock"/></a></p>
<p>John Hurt has admitted he had doubts about taking a role in new film Brighton Rock.</p>
<p>The award-winning actor &#8211; who plays bookie Phil Corkery in the gangster movie &#8211; said it was director Rowan Joffe&#8217;s enthusiasm which eventually persuaded him to join the cast.</p>
<p>&#8220;I was a bit reluctant to start with, I thought it wasn&#8217;t a very big part but [Rowan] was absolutely passionate for it and it&#8217;s a British film and I want to support British film anyway. I&#8217;ve always wanted to support British film,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;So we did it and I was really very pleased we did too, it because I think it turned out to be a really terrific film.&#8221;</p>
<p>John said it was a pleasure to work alongside Dame Helen Mirren, who plays a tea shop manager who becomes tangled up in 1960s Brighton&#8217;s murky underworld.</p>
<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve never been on screen before, we&#8217;ve been in a stage play. It&#8217;s always a joy to work with Helen and it was a joy again. We enjoyed every second of it,&#8221; he added.</p>
<p>&#8220;[My character] is there as an image in a sense to show what the various different competing crooks are trying to extort from people, and as a voice of reason &#8211; I never thought I&#8217;d find myself as a voice of reason, but there you go.&#8221;</p>
<p>:: Brighton Rock is in UK cinemas today (February 4).</p>
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