United Kingdom, Aug. 29 -- Chris Eubank Jr. has been getting acting tips from Vinnie Jones on the set of The Gentlemen.

The 35-year-old professional boxer has landed a role in Season 2 of Guy Ritchie's crime-comedy Netflix series, which is a spin-off of his 2019 film of the same name.

It is Eubank's first role and as a sportsman making the transition to acting, retired soccer player-turned-actor Vinnie - who plays gamekeeper Geoffrey Seacombe in the series - has taken him under his wing on set.

Vinnie was given his big break as an actor by Ritchie, 56, in his 1998 London-set gangster film Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

In an appearance on TV show Loose Women, Eubank said: "I'm 35 years old, 36 in September. Boxing is a young man...