James McAvoy recalls his first day on set band of Brothers And says a co-star bullied him.
During Bravo’s visit watch what happens live While playing “Spill the IMDB-T”, McAvoy made the revelation while keeping quiet about the names.
After being shown a photo from the HBO series, McAvoy looked closely at the image and said, “Wait, let me just see, is he there? No, I don’t think he’s there. Ah, yes, he is.”
He added, “Okay, so, I’m not going to tell you who it was.” “[But] …On my first day as a professional actor after getting out of acting school, one of the guys from that photo decided to bully me! So he told him and his friends to just stand up, point at me and laugh at me, for about three minutes.”
McAvoy explained that the scene he was shooting involved “a ton of actors”, adding, “It was one of those scenes where everybody was there, and we’re in a bar. And I had a scene, and all these people were in it for, like, nine, 10 months, and you get a line in one episode and a line 10 episodes later. They were all angry. And I come in for an episode, and I got an arc and the scene. I have a lot of lines.”
The actor noted that his co-stars Dexter Fletcher and Robin Lang approached him and told him, “Come join us, man.”
McAvoy evaluated his experience band of Brothers Set said that “That day was a part nine, but that day it felt like two [out of 10]”
Bravo host Andy Cohen said he would have tea with McAvoy during a commercial break but the actor said he would not confirm who it was. However, McAvoy did not say that it was not David Schwimmer because he was not in the picture on the screen.
The photo in question stars Donnie Wahlberg as Carwood Lipton, Kirk Acevedo as Joe Toye, Scott Grimes as Donald Malarkey, Philip Barentini as Wayne A. “Skinny” Sisk, Neal McDonough as Lynn “Buck” Compton, Adam James as Cleveland O’Petey, Frank John Hughes as William “Wild Bill” Guarnere, and Ross McCall as Joseph Liebgott as shown.
band of Brothers was a 2001 drama series created by Tom Hanks and Steven Spielberg and based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Stephen E. Ambrose.
Watch McAvoy’s interview in the video below.