McKELLEN QUESTIONS GERVAIS JOKE
Veteran British actor SIR IAN McKELLEN has launched a veiled attack on GANDHI star SIR BEN KINGSLEY, after complaining RICKY GERVAIS was confusing the actors’ pomposity in a new episode of EXTRAS.
Gervais was keen to depict McKellen as an arrogant caricature, who, in one scene, blasts Gervais’ character for refusing to address him by his full title - a thinly disguised attack on fellow knight Kingsley’s preferences.
However, in a posting on his website THE LORD OF THE RINGS star says, “As I’d been invited to comment on the script to suit my personality, I called RG (Gervais) to suggest the script had got me wrong, a little.
“I am one of those knights who prefers not to use the title professionally.
Perhaps RG and SM (writing partner STEPHEN MERCHANT) had confused me with another ‘Sir’.
“I suggested a substitute joke more in keeping with my attitude to such formalities.”
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