Armie Hammer banned from eating Scotch eggs by Guy Ritchie as putting on too much weight

He said: "Because we shot in London, my biggest challenge was not drinking too many pints and not eating too many Scotch eggs. I was eating about four Scotch eggs a day.

"It finally got to the point where Guy said, 'Come here, love' and pulled me aside to the monitor and he goes. 'Do you see this? So this is a still of you earlier today.' He pushes a button and a different picture comes up. And I probably looked 15lb lighter in my face. He goes, 'This is the first day of shooting. Stop eating Scotch eggs!'

"And I was like, 'Alright fine! Only one a day...'"

And Armie's love of Scotch eggs - a boiled egg encased in meat with a breadcrumb shell - was so well known on set, his co-stars think of him whenever they see them.

Henry Cavill told SFX magazine: "He eats so many Scotch eggs that every time I see a Scotch egg on a menu now I'm like, 'Armie! How's it going?' "