TIME’s James Nelson Joyce has revealed the brutal real life backlash on the back of playing Evil prisoner Johnno.
The actor stars alongside Sean Bean and Stephen Graham in the gritty BBC prison drama.
James appeared on This Morning to chat about his role on the three-part series with the penultimate episode airing last night.
The actor had a chat with Holly Willoughby and Phillip Schofield about the reception from his friends and fans of the show, who labelled him as “horrible and a “bully”.
The 33-year-old shared: “Everyone who knows me is like ‘James you’re horrible’, but I’m not like that.”
He continued: “Whenever I’m at home in Liverpool I always go down the boxing club, I walked in and loads of the lads, a few of them are world champions.
“I walked and they go ‘you bully!’ and I’m like ‘I knew I should have gone to the other gym!'”
Despite playing a character totally different from his real life persona, James was thrilled to have the opportunity to step out of his comfort zone.
“It’s an honour to be able to play someone like that and put yourself in different shoes.”
The Liverpudlian described Mark Hebden star Sean Bean as a gentleman and the difficulty of having to rough him up in the programme.
“That was hard, Sean’s a gentleman.”
He added: “I remember getting on set and we’d be talking about football and then go, I’ve got to punch his head in, it’s weird.”
The three-part series explores the violence, broken relationships and guilt weighing on those in the penal system.
Stephen Graham stars as prison guard Eric Reid who has to bend the rules in order to keep his son safe, who is in another prison.
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