Sean Bean was once chatted up by a man in a pub while dressed as a transvestite

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Sean Bean has revealed he was once chatted up by a man in a pub while dressed as a transvestite character.

The Time actor, 63, told how he was testing out an outfit from his 2012 show Accused where he played an English teacher called Simon and his alter ego, Tracie, who dressed up as a woman at night.  

For the role he sported a blonde wig, full make-up, a glamorous electric blue mini-dress adorned with sequins, glittery tights, and a faux fur coat. 

Sean Bean was once chatted up by a man in a pub while dressed as a transvestite

Fun: Sean Bean has revealed he was once chatted up by a man in a pub while dressed as his transvestite character Tracie from the 2012 series Accused

He told The Star what happened when he entered a pub in Muswell Hill, north London, dressed as Tracie while with his daughter Lorna.

The star explained: ‘I had a big bust on and Spanxâ€Ĥ and big high heels!’ 

‘When I went into the pub they didn’t seem to be that bothered but one bloke started chatting me up, saying, ‘I like your shoes.’ 

Awkward: The Time actor, 63, told how he was testing out an outfit from his 2012 show Accused where he played an English teacher called Simon and his alter ego, Tracie, who dressed up as a woman at night

Awkward: The Time actor, 63, told how he was testing out an outfit from his 2012 show Accused where he played an English teacher called Simon and his alter ego, Tracie, who dressed up as a woman at night

He added: ‘I mean, that’s going a bit too far!’ 

The four part series, which examined the British justice system, aired on BBC1 in 2012.

Bean won a Royal Television Society best actor gong for his performance as Tracie. 

The first series of the legal drama, written by Cracker creator Jimmy McGovern, also starred Peter Capaldi, Christopher Eccleston and Mackenzie Crook.

Bean said before filming: ‘I’ve wanted to work on a Jimmy McGovern drama for a while and I think this cracking script really delivers a powerful, emotional drama for the audience.’

Ben Stephenson, controller of drama at the BBC, said at the time: ‘He’s playing a transsexual, a brilliant story, untold I think on mainstream television.’

Other names lined up for the new series included Anna Maxwell Martin, Stephen Graham and comic John Bishop.

When he signed up for Accused it had been 19 years since Bean first became famous playing Colonel Richard Sharpe in ITV Napoleonic drama Sharpe.

Here we go: He told The Star what happened when he entered a pub in Muswell Hill, north London, dressed as Tracie while with his daughter Lorna

Here we go: He told The Star what happened when he entered a pub in Muswell Hill, north London, dressed as Tracie while with his daughter Lorna

He went on to star in first film in the hugely successful Lord of The Rings’ trilogy, The Fellowship of the Ring.

It comes after this summer Sean came under fire for saying intimacy co-ordinators ‘ruin’ Hollywood sex scenes by spoiling the spontaneity and reducing it to ‘a technical exercise’.

The Game of Thrones star was criticised by British actress Jameela Jamil and West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler, from New Jersey, after making the comments in an interview with The Times.

Intimacy coaches were largely introduced to protect actresses after the #MeToo campaign and have played a key role in creating sizzling sex scenes for hit dramas including Bridgerton and Normal People.

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Hitting back at Bean’s remarks, Zegler wrote on Twitter: ‘Intimacy co-ordinators establish an environment of safety for actors,’ adding that the Sheffield native needed to ‘wake up’.

She said: ‘I was extremely grateful for the one we had on [West Side Story] – they showed grace to a newcomer like myself and educated those around me who’ve had years of experience. Spontaneity in intimate scenes can be unsafe.’

Meanwhile, Jamil added: ‘It should only be technical. It’s like a stunt. Our job as actors is to make it not look technical. Nobody wants an impromptu grope…’ 

Bean, who has filmed many explicit sex scenes throughout his career, said: ‘I should imagine it slows down the thrust of it. Ha, not the thrust, that’s the wrong word. It would spoil the spontaneity.

Reaction: The star explained: 'I had a big bust on and Spanxâ€Ĥ and big high heels!' 'When I went into the pub they didn't seem to be that bothered but one bloke started chatting me up, saying, 'I like your shoes'

Reaction: The star explained: ‘I had a big bust on and Spanxâ€Ĥ and big high heels!’ ‘When I went into the pub they didn’t seem to be that bothered but one bloke started chatting me up, saying, ‘I like your shoes’

‘It would inhibit me more because it’s drawing attention to things – somebody saying, “Do this, put your hand there, while you touch his thing…”

‘I think the natural way lovers behave would be ruined by someone bringing it right down to a technical exercise.’

Bean’s most notable sex scene was with Joely Richardson in a 1993 adaptation of DH Lawrence’s novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover.

He said: ‘Lady Chatterley was spontaneous. It was joy. We had a good chemistry between us, and we knew what we were doing was unusual because she was married, I was married.

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‘But we were following the story. We were trying to portray the truth of what DH Lawrence wrote.’

Sex-scene coaches are mandatory at the BBC and have been praised by actresses including Daisy Edgar-Jones, who starred in the daring 2020 BBC adaptation of Sally Rooney’s novel Normal People.

Edgar-Jones has previously said having an intimacy coach was ‘brilliant’ because it was their job ‘to worry about how [the sex scenes] would work and we just turned up, did the choreography and carried on’.

Role: When he signed up for Accused it had been 19 years since Bean first became famous playing Colonel Richard Sharpe in ITV Napoleonic drama Sharpe

Role: When he signed up for Accused it had been 19 years since Bean first became famous playing Colonel Richard Sharpe in ITV Napoleonic drama Sharpe

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