Actor Ray Stevenson didn’t choose acting, it chose him

In Black Sails, Ray Stevenson plays the notorious pirate Blackbeard.

Ray Stevenson doesn’t look like an actor. At 1.9m, he might be a bouncer, or a longshoreman, or a Wichita lineman. But Stevenson didn’t choose acting. It chose him, he says.

“I had to face up to the realisation and it was an epiphany: that what I thought was a decision to be an actor was false. There was no decision to make. It’s a vocation. I had no choice.