Jason Statham has become the latest celebrity to take up beekeeping.

The action movie star, 56, decided to try out the hobby after he signed on to star in Sky Original film The Beekeeper – playing a man on mission for vengeance and former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers.

Clad in a beekeeping suit, the father-of-two looked in good spirits as he got to work on harvesting his honey.

Jason isn’t the only star who’s tried his hand at beekeeping.

David Beckham is famously a fan, having started making his own honey during lockdown.

Jason Statham has become the latest celebrity to take up beekeeping

The action movie star, 56, decided to try out the hobby after he signed on to star in The Beekeeper

He plays a man on mission for vengeance and former operative of a powerful and clandestine organization known as Beekeepers

A source said: ‘Beekeeping started as a fun hobby early in lockdown.

‘But now David has become a bit obsessed. He finds it a total antidote to his mad London and Miami life.’

However they claimed that there’s more than just fun behind David’s new interest, suggesting that he thinks it could help his business portfolio as well.

They said: ‘He can see the logic behind adding to his already impressive business portfolio with authentic, clean and natural brands, which is what people are after.’

In an interview with Vogue, Beyonce, too, revealed that she started beekeeping during lockdown (as the healing properties of honey help with her children’s allergies).

Now she has 80,000 bees in two hives at her LA home, which make hundreds of jars of honey a year.

Scarlett Johansson, meanwhile, has owned a hive since 2009 — a wedding gift from Samuel L. Jackson.

David Beckham is famously a fan, having started making his own honey during lockdown  (pictured with his children Romeo, Cruz and Harper in protective suits in June)

Jennifer Garner has had seven hives at her home in LA since 2017, which she tends with her three children

Chris Hemsworth also has her own beehives and boldly went without any protective clothing

Geri Horner shared a video suited up as she tried out beekeeping

Mark ‘Bez’ Berry, once the party-loving, maraca-wielding dancer of the Happy Mondays, has also taken up beekeeping

Jennifer Garner has had seven hives at her home in LA since 2017, which she tends with her three children.

The actress has shared several photographs of herself on Instagram proudly flourishing a wedge of golden honeycomb, while adorned in head-to-toe protection, and making her own honey.

Mark ‘Bez’ Berry, once the party-loving, maraca-wielding dancer of the Happy Mondays, has also taken up beekeeping.

He told The Guardian: ‘It’s just a great soothing, restful, calming thing to do with such a fabulous bounty at the end.

‘It’s not like gardening, you know, where you have to get your pitchfork out and really work. They look after themselves, bees. Bit like a cat, really. They just come in and go out, as the fancy takes them. But then they give you honey.’

Beyonce (left) started beekeeping during lockdown (as the healing properties of honey help with her children’s allergies) while Scarlett Johansson has owned a hive since 2009