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Welsh actor Rhys Ifans was thrilled when he landed the chance to play British drug smuggler Howard Marks in new movie "Mr. Nice" - because he used to write to the lovable rogue when he was a kid, and Marks was in prison. Ifans reveals he was an impressionable teenager when he first learned about fellow Welshman Marks - and became an instant fan and pen pal.
The "Notting Hill" star recalls, "He was a Welsh speaker and I saw him on the news and he was supplying the world with pot, which, at the time, I guess, was appealing to me. I would write, 'Hello, I'm in school. I'm bored. This is more boring than prison. I know how you feel...' - that kind of teenage stuff."
"When he came out of prison and wrote 'Mr. Nice' we had a conversation when I was a teenager and I said, 'One day when they make a film out of this, can I play you?,' and lo and behold it happened last year."
"It's come full circle completely, so it was really an amazing experience, playing a friend and getting to discover stuff. He had a great life but a tough one as well. Of course now I've seen - and he's seen - the folly of his ways."
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