Actor Vas Blackwood, who appeared in Only Fools and Horses and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, also runs a Kray twins tour in East London outside of acting
A former Only Fools and Horses star is going to start selling cannabis from the Caribbean.
Vas Blackwood, 62, starred alongside Del Boy legend Sir David Jason in a 1986 episode of the beloved BBC show. He played the character of Lennox ‘The Shadow’ Gilbey in the episode – and would go onto played Lenny Henry’s sidekick – Winston Churchill – in The Lenny Henry Show.
He famously appeared as gangster Rory Breaker in Guy Ritchie’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998), with his other film roles including Mean Machine, Creep, All God’s Children and Sumotherhood. However, he’s now getting ready to sell a medicinal cannabis brand named after his Lock, Stock character.
“Rory’s sauce is coming from the Caribbean,” he told The Sun. I’m ironing out things whilst I’m here. It comes straight from the film – they take my cannabis and try to sell it back to me. It’s a declaration of war! I’m working on slogans for it, I’ve got one: ‘I’ll chill ya’.”
In the UK, it’s illegal to sell products containing THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis. However, it has been legalised for medical purposes in several Caribbean nations.
The actor said he’s going to play by the rules and start with CBD oils and products without the THC, saying: “In the Caribbean it’s legal, in the sense you can apply and get a licence to use medicinal marijuana and then go to your chemist.
“This is what’s going to be happening in the UK in the not too distant future. This is for life.”
He added: “It’s so structured with the THC, it’s very controlled. You don’t have to hang around with someone on a street corner to score a bit of weed, you can go to the chemist.”
He added: “Rory Breaker is going with the guidelines – but don’t worry about that, as soon as we’re allowed, the Rory Breaker strain of cannabis will be the most popular.” Vas, who grew up in Highgate, said he was a “ganja baby” in his teens but took his acting career “very seriously”.
Back when he starred in Lock, Stock, director Guy Ritchie said he’d been a fan ever since seeing him in The Lenny Henry Show in the late eighties. Vas is now working on a film script which he plans to star in and says the funds have gone into bond.
Cannabis isn’t his only venture, as Vas runs his own Kray twins tour in East London. Of this, he told the outlet: “I start at the Blind Beggar and roll from there,” he explains. “I bring in the whole gangster thing, but it’s centred on Ronnie and Reggie.
“There’s a couple of locations from Lock, Stock and I talk about modern gangsters,” adding with a laugh: “By the time we’re done, you are a gangster. It’s all fun with Uncle Vas.”
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