'RocknRolla' star upset by Doherty comparison

Toby Kebbell has admitted that he is disappointed to see his RocknRolla character compared to Pete Doherty.

The gangster movie's director Guy Ritchie has claimed that his rock star creation Johnny Quid is based on the troubled Babyshambles frontman.

However, Kebbell is keen to distance himself from those comparisons, telling Digital Spy: "No, I kind of got disappointed that that got mixed up into it because my whole aim was to really make him as disgusting as possible.

"I'm sure people out there will go, 'yeah, well [Doherty] is disgusting'. You can appreciate that from photographs when you see how bad he looks. But when you watch a film it's slightly different. In the film, all you can see is my abdominals. I was thin, beyond thin."

Kebbell, who has also starred in Dead Man's Shoes and Control, added of his character: "He's a crack addict and I wanted that to seem like it's disgusting that it's alright to waste time in drugs. He beats up a bouncer with a pencil, how foul is that? [The bouncer] slaps you and tells you you're not coming in so he stabs you to death with a pencil. That's a bit over the top isn't it?!

"To have Pete Doherty chucked into the mix with that makes it like I was trying to be like one of the cool, hip rockers of the moment and I wasn't at all. I was trying to say, isn't it disgusting that it's alright and you're capable, purely through talent, to waste your life?"

Kebbell was yesterday nominated for the 2009 Orange Rising Star BAFTA alongside Michael Cera, Noel Clarke, Michael Fassbender and Rebecca Hall.