James McAvoy is opening up about a traumatic moment early on in his acting career.

The “X-Men” actor was asked to rank experiences on set during a stop by Andy Cohen’s “Watch What Happens Live” earlier this week. During the bit, McAvoy was asked about his stint on “Band of Brothers.”

“Alright so ― I’m not gonna tell you who it was, [but] on my first day on the set there was a ton of actors. It was one of those scenes with everybody in it, and we’re all at a bar,” he shared, before explaining why tensions could’ve been high on set.

“And I had a scene. And all these guys were in it for like, nine months, 10 months, and they get one line in one episode, and one line 10 episodes later,” he said. “And they were all pissed. I come in for one episode, and I’ve got, like an arc and scenes ― I’ve got tons of lines.”

McAvoy looked at the photo of “Band of Brothers” castmates on the screen and confirmed that one of the actors who bullied him was indeed in the picture.

“One of the guys in that picture decided to bully me. On my first day as a professional actor out of acting school,” he said as the audience oohed and aahed. “He got him and his buddies to just stand pointing at me and laugh at me for, like, three minutes.”

Luckily, a few of his co-stars ― Dexter Fletcher and Robin Laing ― stepped in and came to his rescue.

“They took me aside and were like, ’Come hang with us, man,” he said. “So I would say, apart from that day, [the experience] felt like a nine. But that day, it was a two.”

McAvoy wasn’t the only one who reportedly had trouble on set, as Andrew Scott ― who also appeared on the show ― confessed he found it “difficult.”

“I didn’t love playing a soldier. I found it difficult to be in ‘Band of Brothers,’” Scott said in an interview with Vanity Fair in 2022.

“It’s really important to me to have a sense of community on set. There was something about that that I found difficult in relation to, I think, the processes of some of the people involved were different to mine,” he said. “I didn’t think it was necessary to be in character all the time.”

Scott added that it’s “a very particular atmosphere” and was just “not really that into weapons.”

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