James McAvoy was left 'scunnered' by racial abuse hurled at his female co-stars while performing on stage in Glasgow. The Scottish actor, who performed a two-week stint of Cyrano de Bergerac in Glasgow earlier this year, said most of the women of colour in his cast dealt with 'sexually explicit and violent' abuse on a 'daily basis'.
Speaking with British GQ about performing in Scotland, the 43-year-old actor said he was 'shocked and saddened' by the behaviour of locals and described the experience as 'horrible'.
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.
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