For someone who came into theatre by accident, Bob Hoskins preserved a sort of accidental realism about his performances, even after he made his breakthrough on film in The Long Good Friday.
He was a brilliantly sweaty and physical founder member of the Ken Campbell Roadshow, performing in pubs and clubs with Campbell, Sylvester McCoy, Andy Andrews, Jane Wood and Dave Hill this was his real training, as he expanded gleefully into macabre and sensational bar-room tales of mischief, murder and dropped trousers.
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