A man you don’t meet every day - 'Kill the Irishman' - SEE VIDEO

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CAHIR O'DOHERTY,

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“This man brought down the five main mafia families and they never recovered from it. So it was strange to meet her in that sense. We’re doing a screening in Cleveland next, and I’m a little concerned about how it will go to be honest!” said Stevenson.

Shooting the film on the mean streets of Detroit as a stand in for Cleveland was a major eye opener for Stevenson.

“Our film trucks got shot at and had eight bullet holes in them. We saw a man get shot in the neck near the projects and he had to wait for 40 minutes before the ambulance arrived,” he said.

“Then they had to wait 40 minutes for the cops to arrive for an escort to pick him up. The people in the projects didn’t want him to survive. That was the kind of daily event there that blew my mind.”

In the role of Greene, Stevenson says he knew he was dealing with the fact that everywhere his character went, people had a preconceived opinion of him. He’d always been an underdog and it could be quite isolating and lonely. He had to live on his own all the time.

Says Stevenson, “But he wasn’t altruistic, he wasn’t a Robin Hood figure either. He did things here and there to make some people happy and to piss others off.”

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