Steve Guttenberg: 'I learned humility from Laurence Olivier'

As the ordinary guy in Police Academy and Three Men and a Baby, Guttenberg was one of the 80s unlikeliest stars - then disappeared. He talks about defying audience expectation, partying with Tom Selleck and Ted Danson and his latest role as a foul-mouthed British gangster

Steve Guttenberg ... in a British gangster film!" sounds like a movie pitch by Alan Partridge. Mr Nice of 80s movies - the actor who embodied friendly normality in films such as Short Circuit, Cocoon and Three Men and a Baby - starring in a weird subgenre of film that is now little more than violence porn and misogyny?

And yet, here we are in 2021, with Guttenberg playing an alarmingly bewigged capo in something called - let me check my notes - Original Gangster. It's not quite as weird as Donald Trump becoming president of the United States, but it's not far off.