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"Nick Cave has said that Ray Winstone wants to play the lead role in a planned TV mini-series adaptation of The Death Of Bunny Munro. The musician and author released his second book last year. It was later shortlisted for the &amp;#039;Bad Sex In Fiction&amp;#039; award. Cave told Empire that the book was originally conceived as a screenplay and confirmed that John Hillcoat was &amp;quot;hopefully&amp;quot; in line to direct. He said of casting the lead role: &amp;quot;Ray Winstone is dying to do it. &amp;quot;He really loved the script when we first handed it to him. He was really excited about it, and really distressed when it kinda tanked and never got made.&amp;quot; Of Winstone&amp;#039;s performance in Hillcoat&amp;#039;s The Proposition, the 2005 film Cave penned, he added: &amp;quot;Ray let himself go for that particular part. He was drinking and kind of out of shape and looking pretty rough, but he had this kind of magnetism about him where all the women involved were weak at the knees when Ray was around. &amp;quot;And when he speaks everyone cranes towards him: he has this kind of pull which is really extraordinary. It&amp;#039;s something to do with his ability to be really funny, and the kind of vulnerability he has going on. &amp;quot;It was really pleasing to see him get out of those wide-boy roles into something where he showed this amazing side he has as an actor. The idea was that we set him up as a hard guy and then bit by bit dismantle him to show that he&amp;#039;s a quivering wreck underneath it all.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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