Actor Eddie Marsan has fired back at a Twitter troll who boasted about being friends with someone who bullied him at college. And the screen star received a huge response after posting his cutting comeback to the cruel jibe.
Earlier this week the 54-year-old, who's appeared in films such as The World's End, War Horse, and Gangs Of New York, spotted a tweet from a person claiming to know one of his old classmates from printing college in south London. In it the man described how, on Marsan's first day in lessons, the lecturer had introduced him, saying: "This is Eddie, be nice to him."
The tweeter claimed his pal had "flicked [Marsan's] ears from behind and started singing 'Eddie the Elephant packed his trunk'." The post was met with a host of criticism from those who dubbed it "spiteful" and "cruel".
