{"id":14912,"date":"2025-09-11T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14912\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T00:01:07","slug":"james-mcavoy-punched-in-toronto-bar-days-after-premiere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/14912\/","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy punched in Toronto bar days after premiere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">California Schemin\u2019 is based on the true story of two Scottish friends, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who pretended to be an established Californian rap duo called Silibil N\u2019 Brains, who got a record deal and appeared on MTV.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">And McAvoy was drawn to California Schemin\u2019 \u2013 based on Bain\u2019s memoir \u2013 because he feels it highlights how his fellow Scots are held back from achieving success because of their accent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">He told the Hollywood Reporter: \u201cIn my journey, in my world, did I feel less than?<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cYeah, a little bit, because to this day, there just isn\u2019t a lot of work out there for people with Scottish accents, unless they\u2019re able to change their accent.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cI understood there wasn\u2019t a lot of work out there for people who sounded like me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cRap music is all about the streets that you come from and what made you. And they let that go.<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cSo could they keep themselves sane? Could they keep their relationship with each other? Could they keep their relationship with their own sanity while forsaking their roots?<\/p>\n<p class=\"VYEVUgvTMz\" style=\"display:none\">\u201cIn a less sensational way, that has been my journey for 30 years.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California Schemin\u2019 is based on the true story of two Scottish friends, Gavin Bain and Billy Boyd, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14913,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[74,17181,4731,156,78,14054,17180,111,139,69,16083,105,17182,5130],"class_list":{"0":"post-14912","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-after","9":"tag-bar","10":"tag-days","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-in","13":"tag-james","14":"tag-mcavoy","15":"tag-new-zealand","16":"tag-newzealand","17":"tag-nz","18":"tag-premiere","19":"tag-punched","20":"tag-reportedly","21":"tag-toronto"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14912\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}