Ricky Gervais blasts 'spoilt and annoying' actors who 'won't do what they're told'

Evening Standard

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00:00How do you deal with actors who don't do what they're told?

00:05That's a tricky one.

00:06Do you know what?

00:08It never happens.

00:09I've been lucky.

00:10I've sort of had final edit from the very beginning

00:13and I often work with the same crew and actors

00:17and they're great.

00:18I really can't remember.

00:21I reckon it's been two times in 25 years

00:28when there's been a difficult actor.

00:34The truth is you can't do anything really.

00:38You've got to take it on the chin

00:40and go, oh yeah, I see your point.

00:42Because they've got you by the balls.

00:44Because in a production, if you've got an actor in

00:47for a day or a couple of days or whatever,

00:52everything's in place.

00:53Sometimes you've got actors for one day

00:56and they're going on to another job

00:57where you've got a location for one day.

00:59You can't just fire an actor because they're being an a**hole

01:03because you've got to start again.

01:05You've got the weight of the world on your shoulders.

01:07I can't go to the studio and go,

01:09I fired him, he was annoying me.

01:10What are you going to do?

01:11I'll go, I don't know.

01:12So you've got to sort of go f***ing on.

01:15Okay, yeah, good point.

01:17And get the best out of them.

01:19You've got to treat them like f***ing children, really.

01:23Because they're spoiled

01:24and they've been made, they've been turned into children.

01:27Particularly actors, it's like it's all they've ever done.

01:31They've been acting since they were 18 or something

01:34or straight out of college.

01:35Everyone's doing stuff,

01:36but people f***ing tie your laces for you,

01:38get you coffee when you want it.

01:40I've seen actors gob their chewing gum

01:44into the f***ing make-up woman's hand.

01:47You know what I mean?

01:49So they're just like, they're spoiled little brats, right?

01:53But I haven't worked with any of them, to be honest.

01:57But when it happens, you've just got to get through it

02:00and never work with them again.

02:02And that's it, really.

02:05But I've been very lucky.

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