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A random man <\/strong>reportedly punched James McAvoy<\/a> <\/strong>in a Toronto bar. This incident occurred while McAvoy was attending a premiere for his movie, California Schemin\u2019. A source close to the actor revealed the details of the incident.<\/p>\n Here are the details on what happened in the bar and how McAvoy reacted.<\/p>\n James McAvoy was reportedly attacked recently by a man who was under the influence of alcohol. <\/strong>McAvoy was attending his directorial debut, California Schemin\u2019, at the Toronto International Film Festival. He was in the city along with his wife, Lisa Liberati, on Saturday, September 6, 2025.<\/p>\n Two days after the movie premiere, McAvoy was enjoying his leisure time at Toronto\u2019s Charlotte\u2019s Room bar on Monday evening. According to a source close to McAvoy, who told PEOPLE<\/a>, a random drunk punched the X-Men star. The staff were escorting him after he had drunk too much. Following the assault, everybody around him immediately intervened and escorted the man out of the bar. The incident reportedly took place around 11:55 p.m.<\/p>\n According to the source, the actor had not interacted with the stranger and had his back turned to him. \u201cJames was having a casual get-together with the producers of his movie and, as he later learned when speaking with the staff, there was a man who drank too much who was getting escorted out,\u201d the source told PEOPLE. \u201cJames\u2019 back was to him and the man just punched him.\u201d<\/p>\n After being attacked with no serious injuries, the 46-year-old actor continued to enjoy his time and even laughed off the incident with his colleagues and bar staff.<\/p>\n McAvoy\u2019s California Schemin\u2019 is a musical biography with Samuel Bottomley and S\u00e9amus McLean Ross in the lead roles. It centers around the rap duo, Silibil N\u2019 Brains, who conned the music industry by pretending to be popular American rap artists. To their success, they even got the chance to tour with popular artists like Eminem. The movie has received favorable reviews from the critics and is currently at 91% on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post James McAvoy Sucker-Punched by a Drunk Man in Toronto<\/a> appeared first on ComingSoon.net – Movie Trailers, TV & Streaming News, and More<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A random man reportedly punched James McAvoy in a Toronto bar. This incident occurred while McAvoy was attending a premiere for his movie, California Schemin\u2019. A source close to the actor revealed the details of the incident. Here are the details on what happened in the bar and how McAvoy reacted. James McAvoy reportedly gets […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2016157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[367714,366803,32052,313218,318702],"class_list":["post-2016156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-california-schemin","tag-james-mcavoy","tag-premiere","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-international-film-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/James-McAvoy-Sucker-Punched-by-a-Drunk-Man-in-Toronto.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2016156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2016156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2016157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2016156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2016156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2016156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}James McAvoy reportedly gets attacked by a drunk man<\/h2>\n