James McAvoy was reportedly punched by a person whereas attending the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant over the weekend.
The 46-year-old was within the Canadian metropolis to debut his upcoming movie California Schemin’, a Scottish biopic which marks his directorial debut.
It has now been reported that McAvoy was hit by a stranger in a Toronto bar on Monday (September 8).
The Atonement star was stated to be on the Toronto bar Charlotte’s Room when a person hit him simply earlier than midnight.
McAvoy was reportedly ‘caught off guard’ and ‘tried to deescalate the scenario’ as others intervened to take away the person from the bar, based on Folks.
A supply advised the publication: ‘James was having an off-the-cuff get-together with the producers of his film and, as he later discovered when talking with the employees, there was a person who drank an excessive amount of who was getting escorted out.
‘James’s again was to him and the person simply punched him.’
The supply went on to inform the publication that McAvoy stayed on the bar after the incident and ‘laughed off’ the incident with fellow patrons and the bar employees.
McAvoy’s upcoming directorial debut is impressed by the true story of Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, two aspiring rappers from Dundee, Scotland.
When they’re turned away by the London music trade within the noughties, due to their accents, the Dundee hip hop duo fake to be Californian, rebranding themselves as Silibil N’ Brains.
Within the movie, the pair go on to con music producers out of hundreds.
The true-life Bain and Boyd clinched a file take care of Sony UK and went on to make a lot of albums which have been by no means launched.
After two years of residing a lie, throughout which the pair additionally made essentially the most of life as a recording artist and have been vulnerable to infighting, their facade cracked.
The pair then left the music trade. Boyd is now understood to work within the oil trade, whereas Bain continued his solo profession beneath the moniker Brains.
Throughout a Q&A on the movie competition, McAvoy stated he needed his directorial debut to be a Scottish challenge.
‘This got here alongside and I noticed a possibility to inform a narrative about folks with restricted horizons, but nonetheless be aspirational and entertaining and comedic,’ he stated forward of the movie’s world premiere in Toronto.
‘I needed my debut to be Scottish, as a result of we’re underrepresented. And this movie is partly about one of many causes that you just don’t have extra Scottish movies.
‘The noise that comes out of our mouths alienates folks. They suppose it’s unique. They suppose we’re speaking about kilts or porridge, however they will’t take heed to it for an hour and a half.’
Metro contacted James McAvoy’s consultant and Charlotte’s Bar for remark.
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