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Article: Interview: Ricky Gervais: In Gervais
- Article from:
- Scotland on Sunday
- Article date:
- September 22, 2002
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RICKY Gervais walks into the room, sits down at the desk opposite
me, gets up again to shake my hand and then puts his feet on the desk
and one hand on the knot of his tie. "How can I help you, the
journalist, help the audience, who are my viewers, understand The
Office vis--vis the medium of this interview," he asks while probing
his ear with the eraser end of a pencil.
Except he doesn't, because that is what David Brent would do and,
while Ricky Gervais, 41, may have created, directed and played the
role of Brent, the Slough-based, syntactically-challenged middle
manager in sitcom The Office, it doesn't do to confuse the two.
So instead Gervais just says: "Oh hello. You all right?" And ...