Joe Alwyn Tells Story of Getting in Trouble With the Police at 8 Years Old

Joe Alwyn is sharing the story about how he got in trouble with the police at the age of 8.

The 33-year-old The Brutalist actor told the story on an episode of The Drew Barrymore Show, which aired on Friday (January 17).

Joe was asked to reveal the “funniest thing someone has yelled at you,” which prompted the story that he couldn’t believe he was sharing on TV.

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“I thought it would be a fun idea to prank the neighbors. And I wrote some letters. They were pranky, but they were of the threatening pranky kind, and they were dipped in fake blood from a toy store,” Joe said. “I ran up and down the road with my brother, who very kindly helped, and we put them through the letterbox.”

“My parents got back from a dog walk and the phone rang and it was a neighbor on the phone to them saying, ‘have you got one too?’ And me and my brother thought this was really funny, cause it was working,” Joe said. “Success, so we ran upstairs. And I’m not joking, this is true. The street was very then, it was quickly filled with the entire neighborhood in tears and screaming and worried and understandably, they had called the police and Scotland Yard was on its way.”

“And police cars turned up on the road cause they’ve got a killer to catch. By this point, I’m thinking I’m going to jail,” Joe said. “And about 3 policemen came into the house, we had to confess to our crime and they, they stood over me and my brother, and because he’s 18 months older, which is why it’s great to have an older sibling, he was the one that took the brunt of it. I don’t remember what the policeman yelled at me, but they, they yelled.”

Joe made his late night talk show debut earlier this week.