Squid Game star is ‘kicked out of Dutch McDonald’s and assaulted by staff’

One of the stars of the hit Netflix show Squid Game filmed the moment he claims a McDonald’s manager assaulted him and denied him service “for being an American.”

American actor Geoffrey Giuliano, who played cult hero VIP 4 in the series, was returning from a work trip in Lisbon, Portugal, when the incident occurred on December 31.

The 69-year-old father of six said he visited a McDonald’s outlet during a connection at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport when staff allegedly refused to serve him a veggie burger.

It comes after footage of the actor and his son emerged in 2017 showing what the cameraman claimed was Giuliano lining up at a supermarket in Thailand before telling him: “I’m an American, I do what I want, we’re kings.” of the world’.

The latest footage shows an employee apparently barging into Giuliano, who actually played Ronald McDonald on TV, before a second man appears to raise his hand towards him.

The actor, who had been using a wheelchair because of a knee injury sustained during a movie stunt, claims he was assaulted during the confrontation and has demanded that McDonald’s apologize.

He says he is diabetic and needed food at the time, with McDonalds being the only food outlet available to him.

He told MailOnline that he will take legal action against McDonalds and Amstedam Schiphol Airport, where the incident occurred.

He said: ‘It was conveniently closing time as soon as they saw me.

‘An elderly Indian greeter from McDonald’s saw me, politely put me in line and pushed me forward.

‘However, when I started talking to my son Eden, a young manager heard my American accent and suddenly no service.

‘When they realized we were American, they didn’t serve me. It was all due to a pushy manager and another employee who obviously didn’t like Americans.

Giuliano says this is not the first time he has experienced anti-American discrimination in the Netherlands, claiming it has gotten worse since Donald Trump was elected president.

He told MailOnline that he will take legal action against McDonalds and Amstedam Schiphol Airport, where the incident occurred.

She had said that she had another incident with her granddaughter in which a woman in a store said to her “why don’t you go back to the United States and Donald Trump?”

In this incident, as in Thailand in 2017, Giuliano was with his son Eden, who is now 15 years old.

He said his “very shy” son was “upset” by the two experiences and no longer wants to go out to eat with his father.

‘I had a wheelchair for the round trip flight. I got to my feet and started filming when the manager and another employee suddenly became aggressive and moved towards me and my son.

“If you watch the video carefully, you can see where it hit me when the camera hits and I yell ‘that’s assault’.”

Giuliano said that when he began to speak to his son Eden, a young manager heard his American accent and decided not to serve him.

“If you watch the video closely, you can see where he hit me when the camera crashes and I yell ‘that’s assault’.”

‘Regardless of what the staff say, they served people before me and served people after me, I was the only one not served.

“This is a case of flagrant discrimination that led to a physical attack on me at the Amsterdam airport.

“Hitting people is not a justifiable way to deal with anything.”

Giuliano explained that he was flying back from a work trip in Lisbon, Portugal, to his second home in Thailand with a connecting flight in Amsterdam.

He visited the fast food outlet for snacks and says he had arrived at the front of the line, with people in front of him and behind him being served despite claims by staff that it had closed.

“Of course, this is all the more ironic because in the 1980s I was Ronald McDonald on North American television and I was an undercover vegetarian at the time,” he said.

Operators at the McDonald’s branch did not respond to requests for comment.

However, in an earlier email exchange with Giuliano, they stated that ‘the restaurant closed at 20:00 pm’.

Giuliano said: “Of course, this is all the more ironic because in the 1980s I was Ronald McDonald on TV in North America, and a vegetarian at the time in disguise.” Pictured: Giuliano as Ronald McDonald

However, the video’s metadata shows that the video was recorded at 5:54 p.m. and Giuliano’s flight with the Dutch airline KLM departed at 8:55 p.m.

The company wrote: ‘Thank you for your response, informing us about your visit on New Year’s Eve 2022 at one of the McDonald’s restaurants at Schiphol Airport, where you and your son, during a long layover, were unable to order food.

‘We inform you that the restaurant closed at 20:00 pm on New Year’s Eve. Since you entered the waiting line before the register after 20:00 pm, you were no longer able to place an order because the restaurant had officially closed.

‘The guests in front of you had placed their orders before 20:00 pm and were therefore being served.

“We have looked at the images you sent us and based on that we do not agree that the manager (or any other staff member) assaulted, humiliated or harassed you.

“The footage clearly indicates that they were being filmed against their will and without their permission.”

In more dramatic footage involving the actor, from 2017, Giuliano was filmed at a Big-C supermarket in Pattaya, Thailand, appearing to push in front of another customer.

The French expat claims that Giuliano then dumped around 25 items on the conveyor belt that were in the ‘ten items or less’ zone.

He began filming Giuliano, even telling him he would share it publicly, who then went on a foul-mouthed tirade in front of his wife and son.

Giuliano, who was carrying several press passes with his name on it, said: “You are not intimidating me with that camera, I am an actor.”

The Frenchman replied: ‘I’m just waiting for the next round, because what you said about America was very interesting.’

Giuliano, originally from Rochester, New York, then appeared to become even more aggressive as he began swearing and moving towards the filmmaker.

He claims that the cameraman was a member of the paparazzi and had followed him to the supermarket.

He said he left the queue ahead of him to go buy bananas and then came back to see the French man filming his wife and son. So 11, I was crying for the man

“I did what anyone would do and told him to fuck off.”

The video shows Giuliano saying: ‘Fuck you, it’s okay. Fuck you, okay, let’s be clear. You can fuck off, OK.

“I’m an American, I do what I want, we are the kings of the world, it’s okay.”

”We are professional idiots. We have taken being a ******* to the highest level possible in this world.

The Frenchman said: ‘I agree with you.’

Giuliano replied: ”You agree, so we have a point of agreement. Now, next time, mind your own shitty business.”

A few moments later, Giuliano left the busy supermarket in the city’s South Pattaya district at around 6:00 p.m. yesterday.

Giuliano claims that he had done the ‘ugly American act’ to ‘finish off’ the cameraman, whom he felt had taken a dislike to him for being an American.

He said the McDonalds workers didn’t know who he was while the man from the Thai supermarket was filming him because he knew he was an actor.