The Inbetweeners star Joe Thomas reveals car sex scenes in his coming-of-age film The Festival are so rude he’s not letting his parents see it

STRUTTING on the catwalk with a testicle hanging out of his pants, standing naked on a fishing boat with only a sock covering his modesty and projectile vomiting over a small child — it’s fair to say Joe Thomas took the brunt of the shocking moments, which made The Inbetweeners must-see viewing.

And in The Festival, his first lead movie role, in which he plays dumped university graduate Nick reluctantly attending a music event, the actor has once again been asked to leave his dignity at the door for the sake of comedy.

In an exclusive interview, Joe reveals some of the scenes in the coming-of-age film are so rude that he is not letting his parents watch it.

Joe said: “I can’t watch this film with them.

“I usually finish a project with a sense of pride and that’s the feeling I have when I talk to other people, but then there’s this feeling, ‘I’m having sex in a car’, and I just don’t think they want to see that.”

The Festival, directed by Iain Morris, co-creator of The Inbetweeners, will help fill the void left by the E4 comedy’s 2014 movie sequel.

Joe says the flick, out in cinemas on August 14, covers everything you’d associate with festivals, namely “mud, toilets, tents and sex” and teased a gross-out moment features somebody “pooing in a bag”.

Filming locations included Leeds Festival and Bestival, in Dorset, to ensure the backdrop was as authentic as possible.

And, like so many of his standout scenes in The Inbetweeners, Joe spends large chunks of the movie wearing very little.

He said: “There was a lot of running around in my pants.

“There’s a long chase sequence – it took days to film – when I thought, ‘I wish I didn’t have to do this’.

“Lots of chaffing, and I knew they made the pants slightly too small, they sort of went up my arse, just the right shade of pink.”

Starring alongside him is real-life fiancée and Inbetweeners co-star Hannah Tointon, who brutally splits from his character Nick at his graduation, before bumping into him at the festival.

Joe says wild storylines in The Inbetweeners helped ease any pre-date nerves when they first got together.

He explained: “I first met Hannah when we were doing a scene where she was sick in my mouth, so there was no awkwardness after that.”

Talk of a third Inbetweeners film has inevitably reignited with the release of The Festival. Joe insists there are no concrete plans, but does say it would have to change tact there was another outing.

He hinted that his character Simon and dopey Neil Sutherland, played by Blake Harrison, might have matured with age.

He said: “Being in your thirties is quite different. The world feels a more serious place, so it would need to change in some way.

“It might be that Neil becomes incredibly successful and is the richest out of all of them.

“I can see Simon working with people, but not a high-flying businessman.”

Joe’s parents wouldn’t be averse to watching that.

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