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Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie: “We’re just happy we can look back without cringing”

Every long-lasting partnership has a particular kind of magic that keeps it going. It’s been 25 years since the iconic partnership between Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie began with Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, the film that launched both their careers, and four films later, it’s clear to both of them what keeps them coming back again and again.

“It’s the money,” says Ritchie.

“It’s always about the money,” laughs Statham.

Sitting with the two in Dubai ahead of the premiere of their latest collaboration Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre, filmed in part in Qatar, and it’s clear they’re not taking any of this too seriously. Their work, of course, is still a joy, still full of the crackling dialogue, larger-than-life characters and inimitable style that the two offer, but this whole trotting around the globe thing is part of the job, as we fight to get a serious answer out of the two.

Perhaps it doesn’t matter if they don’t want to get weepy. After all, that’s not why you go see a Statham and Ritchie project. You go for the charisma and the chemistry, and the two have that in spades, whether they’re ordering breakfast in a hotel in Dubai or in the middle of their next massive action set piece. Whatever they had back in 1998, they haven’t lost one bit.

Read the full conversation here.