This is the moment Sean Bean grapples with a bouncer before he is wrestled to the floor and dragged out of a Liverpool bar after allegedly being told off for vaping.
The Game of Thrones star was seen being manhandled by security, one of whom had a hand around the actor’s throat, at the Tom Thumb pub last Friday during a night off from filming a new BBC drama in the city.
In the footage the Sharpe actor can be heard being told to ‘calm down’ before a member of staff tells him to leave the pub.
The 65-year-old is then dragged out of the booth he had been sitting in, with a witness claiming he had to be taken to the ground and forcibly removed.
Bean has been involved in multiple incidents at bars and pubs throughout his career, and on one occasion was even stabbed during a blazing row over a glamour model.
The actor was seen with the hand around his throat as he grappled with security at the Tom Thumb pub in Liverpool on Friday, May 31
Staff could heard telling the Game of Thrones star to ‘calm down’ as he stood inside a booth
The Lord of the Rings actor is then dragged out of the booth by security, with witnesses claiming he had to be taken to the floor before being removed
A witness told MailOnline that the latest happened after the Sheffield-born thespian ignored requests from the bar staff for him to stop vaping indoors.
The eyewitness said: ‘I was really surprised and pleased when I first looked up and saw him sitting there.
‘When the bouncer went over to him, I thought it was for a photo, but actually he was asking Sean to stop vaping in the bar.
‘Sean kept saying he could do what he wanted. To be honest he was being a right a***hole.
‘The bouncers were just doing what they do for everyone else – which is fair enough.
‘When he came back in he just started vaping again.
‘They asked him to leave but he wouldn’t. He was just clinging onto his chair.
‘I was so shocked by the fight I couldn’t move – my jaw just hit the floor.
‘I was really saddened by his smugness. He really seemed to feel like he could do what he wanted.’
Bean is filming new gangland drama This City Is Ours in Liverpool.
Bean, pictured here as Ned Stark in Game of Thrones, had allegedly refused to stop vaping before the incident
The actor, pictured here in Disney+ series Shardlake, has been involved in multiple incidents in pubs and bars in the past
Sean Bean pictured in Troy, the 2004 epic in which he played the mythical character Odysseus
He plays a gang leader called Ronnie Phelan, a mentor for lead character Michael – played by Scouse actor James Nelson-Joyce – who’s tipped to take over the veteran’s drug empire after he retires.
The eight-part series is being filmed over 14 weeks in the city, and is being part-funded by the Liverpool Film Office through its Liverpool City Region (LCR) Production Fund.
Bean is no stranger to controversy during his career, which has spanned four decades, and he has previous for bar scuffles.
He was stabbed in a London pub in 2011 after getting into a fight over glamour model April Summers.
Bean was attacked outside the Hill Bar and Brasserie in Camden, North West London and suffered a cut arm and a bruised face.
According to witnesses at the time, he declined to attend hospital and instead walked back into the bar and, after staff gave him aid from a first aid kit, ordered another drink.
The Sheffield-born star is one of the UK’s best known actors, having also featured in James Bond movie Goldeneye, the Lord of the Rings trilogy, BBC1 prison drama Time and HBO fantasy blockbuster Game of Thrones.
He became a sex symbol in the early nineties courtesy of his role in steamy drama Lady Chatterley and then for his part of Richard Sharpe, the maverick Napoleonic Wars rifleman in the ITV series Sharpe.
Bean is also known for his womanising reputation as he’s been married five times.
He lives with his current wife, American actress Ashley Moore, in Somerset, and has three children and four grandchildren.
Sean Bean pictured with his fifth wife Ashley Moore at a BBC First party in Warsaw, Poland, in 2018
Sean Bean pictured in the 2023 fantasy film Knights of the Zodiac
The actor pictured on ITV’s This Morning on April 14, this year
His first marriage was to childhood sweetheart Debra James in 1981, but they split seven years later.
He then went onto marry fellow actor Melanie Hill in 1990, the mother of his daughters Lorna, 36, and Molly, 32, before divorcing in 1997, the same year he tied the knot for a third time with his Sharpe co-star Abigail Cruttenden. They split in 2000 and share a 25-year-old daughter, Evie.
Bean married his fourth wife, Georgina Sutcliffe, in February 2008 after the pair originally cancelled their January wedding the day before for ‘personal reasons’. They separated two years later in 2010.
Speaking about his fifth marriage to Moore in 2017, Bean told the Daily Mail: ‘I wasn’t planning on getting married again.
‘But then I wasn’t planning on meeting someone as amazing as Ashley. I can’t wait to spend the rest of our lives together.’
MailOnline has contacted the BBC and attempted to contact representatives of Sean Bean for comment.