claimed on \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d<\/a> Monday that the man in question was one of the people featured in the cast photo Andy Cohen showed viewers.<\/p>\nThe image featured Donnie Wahlberg, Kirk Acevedo, Scott Grimes, Neal McDonough, Philip Barantini, Adam James, Frank John Hughes and Ross McCall.<\/p>\n
James McAvoy put one of his \u201cBand of Brothers\u201d co-stars on blast Monday for bullying him on set of the 2001 show. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\/Youtube<\/p>\n
The actor confirmed the man in question was one of the men in this cast photo. (Pictured above: Donnie Wahlberg, Kirk Acevedo, Scott Grimes, Neal McDonough, Philip Barantini, Adam James, Frank John Hughes and Ross McCall.) Getty Images<\/p>\n
Though McAvoy did not name the bully, he confirmed it wasn\u2019t David Schwimmer.<\/p>\n
The \u201cShameless\u201d alum, 47, went on to describe the experience, which took place on his first day on set of the 2001 show while filming \u201cone of those scenes with everybody in it \u2026 at a bar.\u201d<\/p>\n
He explained, \u201cAll these guys were in it for nine months, 10 months, and they get one line in one episode and one line 10 episodes later. They were all pissed. I come in for one episode, and I\u2019ve got an arc and scenes. I\u2019ve got tons of lines.\u201d<\/p>\n
McAvoy, notably, played Private First Class James W. Miller in the fourth episode, \u201cReplacements.\u201d<\/p>\n
McAvoy noted on \u201cWatch What Happens Live\u201d that the bully was not David Schwimmer. Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen\/Youtube<\/p>\n
He claimed his former co-star was \u201cpissed\u201d at all the lines he had his first day. HBO<\/p>\n
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He remembered, \u201cSo, one of the guys in that picture decided to bully me \u2014 on my first day as a professional actor out of acting school. He got him and his buddies to just stand pointing at me and laugh at me for, like, three minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cohen, 58, chimed in and called the moment \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n
The \u201cX-Men: First Class\u201d star noted that Dexter Fletcher and Robin Laing pulled him aside at the time and saying, \u201cCome hang with us, man.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cHe got him and his buddies to just stand pointing at me and laugh at me for, like, three minutes,\u201d the Golden Globe winner (pictured above in January 2025) recalled. Getty Images<\/p>\n
McAvoy (pictured above on Sept. 12) praised the two cast members who helped him during the \u201cterrible\u201d moment. Getty Images for IMDb<\/p>\n
While McAvoy dubbed that day on set a two out of 10, he clarified that the rest of the experience was a nine.<\/p>\n
Reps for Wahlberg, Acevedo, Grimes, Barantini, James, McDonough, Hughes and McCall did not immediately respond to Page Six\u2019s requests for comment.<\/p>\n
Elsewhere during his \u201cWWHL\u201d appearance Monday, the Golden Globe nominee reflected on other projects from his career.<\/p>\n
McAvoy (pictured above on Saturday) rated that day a two out of 10 \u2014 but the project a nine overall. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Host Andy Cohen expressed dismay over the \u201cterrible\u201d story. (Pictured above: McAvoy on Oct. 8.) GC Images<\/p>\n
He called \u201cThe Near Room,\u201d his 1995 film debut, an \u201camazing\u201d time despite being \u201cterrified.\u201d<\/p>\n
As for doing \u201cThe Chronicles of Narnia\u201d a decade later, he raved about his time in the movie as a 10 out of 10.<\/p>\n
\u201cI played the horny goat guy,\u201d he said. \u201cI had like six months in New Zealand with 20 days of work. So I just went hiking and camping. It was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James McAvoy was allegedly bullied on the \u201cBand of Brothers\u201d set by one of his co-stars. The actor…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":880951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[1508,603,131095,4032,3172,91,88,89772,92,40402],"class_list":["post-880950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-actors","tag-bravo","tag-celebrity-beefs","tag-celebrity-feuds","tag-celebrity-interviews","tag-celebrity-news","tag-entertainment","tag-james-mcavoy","tag-tv","tag-watch-what-happens-live"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=880950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/880950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/880951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=880950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=880950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=880950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}