Brassic’s Joe Gilgun went from squatting to ‘living like Brad Pitt’ when he landed a role in the US drama Preacher. The former Emmerdale star, 36, played an Irish vampire in four seasons of the big-budget comic book adaptation.
He said it’s so ‘strange’ getting the ‘multi-million dollar’ experience when he travels to Hollywood for work. Joe told The Sun’s TV Mag: ‘It’s been strange.
I go from living like Brad Pitt in these multimillion-dollar things in the States, to coming back to the house I was squatting in, which didn’t even have running water. ‘Everyone was going: “Joe, you’ve got a load of money, you stupid ****, you could have a house!”‘ When Joe – who has bi-polar disorder like his character Vinnie in Brassic – checked his