McShane says soccer films don't work
London : Actor Ian McShane thinks soccer movies are dreadful and pleading with filmmakers to stop making films on football players.
According to contactmusic.com, McShane's father was a Manchester United fan but he says movie stars should not be allowed to play footballers.
He says: " 'Yesterday's Hero' was written by Jackie Collins and based on the life of George Best. I used to drink with him in a club Jackie and her husband owned in London in the 1970s. It (movie) was not bad, but football films don't work. To look like a professional soccer player is pretty impossible unless you are one."
He says that even though his film was weak in certain areas it was better than "Escape To Victory", which starred Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine.
He adds: "You had Sylvester Stallone playing a goalkeeper and Michael Caine as the most overfed prisoner of war I have ever seen."
