‘Men Behaving Badly’ star Neil Morrissey has always wanted to make it in America but thinks his "yellow teeth" and "pot belly" have stopped him from being a success Stateside.
The 57-year-old English actor may have starred in a string of hit British shows, including ‘Good Karma Hospital’, ‘Line of Duty’ and ‘Waterloo Road’, but his ambitions to appear in an American show have been held back by his imperfect looks.
In an interview with My Weekly magazine, he said: "I’d go work in America but they don’t like people with slightly yellow teeth and a pot belly. People on American TV are uber beautiful, even if that’s not real life."
Neil will always be best remembered for playing layabout lager lout Tony Smart in sitcom ‘Men Behaving Badly’ and he admits that when he and his castmates Martin Clunes, Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash get together they quickly slip into their old drinking habits like it was the 90s again.
He spilled: "Martin Clunes and I were already friends when he suggested me for the role of Tony in Men Behaving Badly. We got on incredibly well as a foursome, along with Caroline Quentin and Leslie Ash. On the occasions we see each other now we revert to our 26 year old selves at the pop of a cork!
"There’s a generation of kids who might know me from ‘Waterloo Road’, ‘Line of Duty’, ‘Unforgotten’ or ‘Good Karma Hospital’, but not from ‘Men Behaving Badly’. I get parents telling their children in front of me, This guy, he was in this great sitcom in the 1990,’ and the kid’s like, ‘I wasn’t born, Dad.’ It reminds me that it’s been almost 30 years!"
Neil Morrissey dreams of cracking America
