Possible Clues:

• Overweight actors playing the villains?
• Strives to follow cheap, unclothed thugs
• Male's acting struggles with screen villains
• Criminal strongmen
• Endless stout that is served at opening for those minding one's business
• The man's accepting a struggle, seeing thugs
• Large bodyguards
• Pulls one in. They're thugs
• Chap's going without a struggle — if approached by them?
• The fellow's holding a battle for important people