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In Ghost Town, popular British comic Ricky Gervais (TV’s Extras) plays Bertram Pincus, a lowly, slightly disgruntled dentist who briefly dies, before being resurrected with the ability to communicate with the dead. He tells us more… |
It was a role too good to refuse,” says Gervais, but the actor had only made small appearances in films up until then, so he was understandably nervous about taking on a lead.
“It was kind of a baptism by fire for me, because I was going straight to a lead part after doing just a few little cameos,” Gervais, last seen in the fantasy film Stardust, says. “It was a daunting prospect, even if I was playing a short, fat man from London, a role I know well!”
Only this time, the “short, fat man” wouldn’t actually be in London, but rather the Big Apple. Shooting in Manhattan was one of the main draws to the film, says the actor.
“I adore New York and when you make a film in Manhattan, every single shot can be iconic. It was just so much fun shooting there.”
Gervais, who had made small appearances in the likes of Night at the Museum and For Your Consideration, says David Koepp’s Ghost Town was the “best script I’ve read in five years.”
He also knew he was the actor to play Bertram.
“It was very much what I do and I just thought I was the best person for the job here. You rarely are – you read scripts and it’s arbitrary. I can think of 50 other people than me, you know, and I’d rather be the creator. Sometimes something comes along and you think, ‘I’ve got to do this.’”
Gervais also didn’t see his character as the irredeemable, irritating loser that others might.
“I think Pincus is a very human man in terms of his emotions, but he’s also a grumpy, wisecracking loner who thinks he prefers it that way, until his mind is changed,” Gervais says. “I liked that he gets a bit of redemption, which is one of my favourite themes. Deep down he might be a putz, but he also has a good heart, one that can only be revealed if he meets the right person. Luckily, he does.”
The comic star also feels that part of Ghost Town’s strong appeal lays in the fact that these characters have a sometimes biting, sometimes moving reality to them. “Aside from the fact that there are ghosts everywhere, it’s all played very, very naturally and the story is very much about emotional themes that everyone identifies with – loneliness, loss, jealousy, love,” he says. “The comedy is not about special effects or supernatural gags. It’s about the relationships between Pincus and Frank [Greg Kinnear] and Frank’s widow [Tea Leoni] and the situation they find themselves in.”
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