X-Men star James McAvoy has admitted he was eager to leave Scotland after racial abuse was hurled at his female co-stars on stage during a theatre performance.
Earlier this year, the Scottish actor performed a two-week run of Cyrano de Bergerac in Glasgow and was left 'scunnered' after most of the women of colour dealt with sexually explicit and violent' abuse on a 'daily basis', the Daily Record reports.
He admitted to British GQ he was 'shocked and saddened' by the behaviour of locals - branding the experience as 'horrible' - and was 'delighted' to get to the States for the next run of the show.
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He said: “The cast were amazing, it was brilliant. But I was really saddened, to be honest with you, because most of the women of colour in the cast got racially abused pretty much on a daily basis when we were there. I was just really saddened. I was absolutely shocked and dismayed and to use a Scottish word, scunnered.
“We were delighted to get to Brooklyn [where the play was to move to next], and leave Glasgow. It was horrible.”
McAvoy, who's originally from Glasgow himself said the experience left him feeling like he 'didn't want to be there' and he says he was relieved to leave Scotland.
He added: “The narrative that Scottish people and the Scottish media want to hear when one of us has gone away and done all right, they like you to be back at home and go ‘It’s rare. It’s fantastic. I’m chuffed to be here and there’s no crowd like a Scottish crowd’.
"But I was going on stage every night going, ‘I don’t want us to be here. I brought this cast here and I don’t want to be here’.”
A spokesperson for Theatre Royal, Glasgow added: "Everyone at Theatre Royal was extremely upset by these incidents which happened elsewhere in Glasgow city centre. Diversity and inclusion remain a priority for us, and we offered appropriate support to the company at the time."
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