{"id":799155,"date":"2026-10-11T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799155\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T13:08:11","slug":"james-mcavoy-recalls-being-punched-at-toronto-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/799155\/","title":{"rendered":"James McAvoy recalls being punched at Toronto Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The Drumchapel actor appeared on America&#8217;s Late Night with Seth Meyers this week to recall an incident where he thought about evoking his Glasgow roots after an altercation at the Toronto Film Festival.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  During the eleven-day event, McAvoy was sitting with fellow producers when they noticed a man being kicked out from the bar.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to the film star, the out-on-control man in his rage then swung for the first man in his vicinity &#8211; McAvoy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Speaking on the late show, he said: &#8220;He&#8217;d been really he was behaving badly. He drank too much and he was getting ejected by the bouncer and as he was walking past me I had my back to him.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;He was coming past he just cold clocked the first guy he could reach and he smacked me as hard as he could in the back of the head.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  McAvoy said he went from &#8220;zero to ninety&#8221; before his fellow producers could grab him and calm him down.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  However, the drunken man didn&#8217;t appear done with the altercation as he declared &#8220;I&#8217;m from Mexico.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@latenightseth?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"@latenightseth\">@latenightseth<\/a> James McAvoy reveals he got into a bar fight at the Toronto premiere of @California Schemin\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7694732280467655438?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Late Night with Seth Meyers\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Late Night with Seth Meyers<\/a>\n    <\/p>\n<p>\n  Explaining the rest of the story, McAvoy said: &#8220;He came at me and he did this thing. I don&#8217;t know if you&#8217;ve ever been in a fight and like it used to happen a lot when you were kids, but it still happens as adults apparently, which is you&#8217;re in a fight with somebody and they start telling you where they&#8217;re from.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;They&#8217;re not telling you &#8216;I&#8217;m going to mess you up.&#8217; He goes like, &#8216;I&#8217;m from Mexico.&#8217;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  &#8220;I&#8217;m thinking how ridiculous and then at the exact same time going well, &#8216;I&#8217;m from Drumchapel'&#8221;.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Drumchapel actor appeared on America&#8217;s Late Night with Seth Meyers this week to recall an incident where&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799156,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799155\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}