Martin Freeman says it’s unfair there’s so much backlash to his age-gap movie with Jenna Ortega, who is 31 years younger

Speaking with The Times of London for an interview published Saturday, Freeman defended “Miller’s Girl” as “grown-up and nuanced.”

“It’s not saying, ‘Isn’t this great,'” he said of the film’s dynamic between his character and Ortega’s.

Freeman said the film had been “tainted by association” with a difficult subject.

He said that derision wasn’t distributed equally, though — saying that people seemed to understand the level of distance involved in stories depicting Nazism.

“Are we gonna have a go at Liam Neeson for being in a film about the Holocaust?” he asked, referring to Neeson’s starring role in Steven Spielberg’s 1993 film “Schindler’s List.”

Although the controversial relationship at the center of “Miller’s Girls” prompted a lot of comment, the film wasn’t a hit.

It premiered at the Palm Springs Film Festival to underwhelming box office numbers.

The R-rated film was given a small theatrical release in the US, showing at just 350 screens for just one week domestically, earning $321,000 in ticket sales, according to box office tracker The Numbers.

It took an additional $568,522 at the international box office, bringing its total gross to $889,522 — less than a quarter of its $4 million production budget.

On review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, the film earned a critic score of 29% based on 58 reviews. Its audience score is 42% based on 50-plus verified ratings.

This could, of course, change now that “Miller’s Girl” has been on one of the most popular streaming platforms.