Eddie Marsan knows about mobsters: He was born and raised in London’s notorious East End.

But until Friday’s feature, “All the Devils Are Here,” he’s skipped stepping into any of those violent, law-busting shoes.

“Because I come from the East End I get asked to lots of gangster movies all the time,” Marsden, 62, explained in a Zoom interview from London. “The reason I chose ‘All the Devils Are Here’ is there’s something that the British have lost their way with gangster movies at the moment.

“We have a great tradition of brilliant gangster movies — ‘The Long Good Friday,’ ‘Mona Lisa,’ ‘Get Carter’ — where there was a complexity, nuance and vulnerability to the gangsters. They were slightly pathetic characters struggling to find their way in the world.

“But now we make gangster movies w

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