'Ghost Town': Q&A with Ricky Gervais
By Emily Christianson, Hollywood.com Staff
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Friday, September 19, 2008
HW: You were caught up in a love triangle with Tea Leoni and Greg Kinnear in this film, what did Tea bring to the mix?
RG: Well it would have just been two otherwise. Then it would have been a love line [laughs]…The fun thing about it as well and the character and how she played it so brilliantly, is that she is a woman in charge who has been hurt and this unlikely little guy comes along who she thinks is a strange, little man…the comedy comes from me just being a total buffoon and not being tongue tied. At one point I call her an idiot.
HW: Do you see playing a leading man in film as a natural progression for you?
RG: No, it wasn’t. This is sort of like a parallel career, because what I see myself, I do, I write and direct comedy or drama or write or perform stand up work and that’s sort of what I do more than anything. And being a hired actor or one of the leads or anything is very nice and flattering and all those things, but its not like I am pursuing it…If I did Die Hard I’d get stuck in that little thing. [They would say] ‘Oh, we gotta go again.’ (Laughs.) ‘We gotta get a bigger air vent. No one stand under the air vent!’
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