The victim needed four stitches
Actor Antony Starr, best known for portraying evil superhero Homelander on Amazon Prime’s The Boys, has been arrested on drunken assault charges.
The actor admitted to assaulting chef Bathuel Araujo while working with director Guy Ritchie in Spain and, upon arrest, spent two nights in a cell.
The 46-year-old actor has been served a 12-month suspended prison sentence alongside being ordered to pay $7,855 in compensation to Araujo, reports the Mail Online.
“The detainee’s state of drunkenness was taken into account as an extenuating factor,” said a court official. “The sentence was the result of an agreement between the state prosecution service and the man who was subsequently convicted.”
The suspended sentence was given as long as Starr “doesn’t commit another crime in two years and pays the compensation in the next 72 hours.”
Araujo claims that a heavily intoxicated Starr was stirring up trouble in an unnamed Spanish bar before lashing out when asked to calm down. He reportedly then pushed the 21-year-old chef out of the restaurant before punching him in the jaw and eye and reportedly attacking him with a glass which requiring four stitches later in hospital.
Starr is yet to comment on the incident.
The New Zealand born actor is most known for portraying Homelander in The Boys, which takes a more adult approach to comic book stories. While superheroes in Marvel and DC are largely uncompromised by politics, The Boys follows everyday people as they attempt to take down a corrupt superhero team run by capitalistic cooperation.
While this is certainly not one for kids, if you are a fan of intense fighting, violence, the occasional sex scene and Nazis with superpowers, then this is one for you.
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