The National Police has arrested the New Zealand actor in Alicante Antony Starr46, for a crime of injury after allegedly assaulting a 21-year-old, who he punched twice in a Castaños street pub and smashed a glass in his face. The victim had a gap next to an eyebrow and after being evacuated by ambulance to the hospital they put four stitches on him and he has already appeared before the Police to offer the account of the events.
The actor who plays “Patriota” in the series “The Boys” and the ex-con who becomes sheriff in “Banshee” He has slept in the dungeons of the Alicante Provincial Police Station after his arrest and the proceedings are pending to be concluded before he is brought to justice.
Antony Starr, who is in Alicante for the shooting of the guy richie movie starring Oscar nominee Jake Gyllenhaalwas allegedly in a “drunk state” when the incident occurred shortly before half past two in the morning on Wednesday, according to data provided to the Police by employees of the pub and by the victim of the attack, a young cook from Venezuela who has lived in the province for four years.
The victim did not know who he was
According Bathuelthe young man injured, when the events occurred I didn’t know it was an actor and when they pointed it out to him at the police station “I thought they were telling me as a joke”. The young man has explained to this newspaper and to the Police that he arrived at a pub in Castaños at one in the morning in the company of a friend. They were at the bar talking to the waitresses because they knew them and next to him there was a man “who was falling because he was so drunk.”
Antony Starr, who was also with a friend, kept “bumping and pushing because he was wobbling.” They stayed that way for more than an hour and Bathuel’s friend asked the actor’s companion to calm him down because “I was very drunk”. At that moment, the now detained actor approached Bathuel and began to rebuke him saying in English “fuck you, fuck off”, at the same time that he pushed him and made signs for him to leave the premises.
At first the young man did not defend himself against the shoves, but in the end he responded with one and that was when the alleged aggression that the National Police is investigating occurred. As the wounded man explained to this newspaper, he first gave him two punches in the jaw and next to the eye. “I got dizzy and that’s when he hit me with the glass next to my left eyebrow,” says Bathuel.
Then he grabbed his shirt and tore it, managing to get away from his attacker, according to the complainant. He then claims that he went to the toilets to wash off the blood, while the actor was sent off by goalkeepers of the establishment and by the friend of the victim.
The actor stayed in the street with his friend and when he left he assures that “he came towards me and I pushed him; he fell to the ground and there we hit each other until the police arrivedseparated us and arrested him”. Before this second part of the denounced aggression, the actor was threatening him with death saying in English that “you don’t know who you’ve messed with, you don’t know who I am and what you’ve done. the mistake of your life and I’m going to look for you. I want to kill you,” according to the victim.
Antony Starr starred in fiction in numerous high-voltage fights as Lucas Hood, the ex-convict who posed as a sheriff in the serie “Banshee”:
In “The Boys” he plays Homelander (Patriota in Spanish), an evil superhero who leads The Seven:
Antony Starr spent the day in Alicante
Antony Starr, who spent the day in Alicante yesterday, posted on his Instagram account a selfie photo in the Port of Alicante with the “Boats” comment:
He also showed, this time on his account Twittera photograph of what was ordered to eat in a restaurant in the same area. “Here’s some food. That I didn’t eat. Unlike the food that I did eat. Exciting things we do here,” said the actor, an increasingly popular rising star.
