Actor Eddie Marsan has opened up about the“relentless” abuse he has received on social media since playing the Jewish character Soly Malinovsky in the BBC One drama Ridley Road.
Mr Marsan, 53, is not Jewish but plays the part of the leader of the anti-fascist 62 Group in the four-part series chronicling the community’s post-war fight against the far right.
“F**k me, this is relentless, all I did was play a Jew, I dread to think what would’ve happened if I was actually Jewish,” he wrote on Twitter on Thursday evening.
Among several examples flagged by the actor was a tweet from a user who said they would never “watch shite with your Apartheid loving bake in it.”
