I had to grow up as hellraisers get fired!

THE WORDS bad boy” seem permanently affixed to his name, but Nick Moran assures me he is a lot more chilled now. I’m in my 50s and I’ve had to calm it down a bit,” the film star says... but there’s that but.

- MickWall sia

“I love a little bit of anarchy and chaos,” he adds. Anyone that’s been on a film set with me knows that. Anyone who was out with me running around Soho when I had a couple of quid in my pocket can stand testament to that.”

Indeed, tabloid stories involving Moran who is fondly remembered as cardsharp Eddie in Guy Ritchie’s classic 1998 gangster flick Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels once abounded.

Leaving private members clubs with 3,000 bar bills The girls in my accountant’s office used to read them out loud and laugh”); knocking a photographer unconscious at the red-carpet premiere of Lock, Stock; living in a disused pub in south London; dating TV star Denise Van Outen, then marrying actress Sienna Guillory. Then getting divorced fewer than three years later...

“I was doing silly stupid things,” Moran, 53, admits. Whether it was swearing on telly or getting into fisticuffs.

“I was all over the tabloids my life destroyed, relationships ruined, really difficult and unpleasant. I did it when I was 30 and I don’t want to do it again.”

He still rails against the new societal norms that he feels have robbed modern life of much of its individuality and fun.

“It’s about being polite and using the right pronouns and behaving yourself. It’s left me a little bit confused.”

He goes on. I’ve no interest in fame. I have no social media. I’ve only got a dumb phone, a little Nokia. ve never had a website or a Twitter. I’ve never posted a picture of myself. I’ve never posted a comment.”

Instead, he has spent the quartercentury since he first shot to fame starring alongside a string of movie legends, including John Hurt, Joseph Fiennes,

Catherine Deneuve, Tim Roth and Stephen Rea, in a steady stream of high-profile British films.