{"id":13534,"date":"2023-04-13T19:06:34","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:06:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/ricky-gervais-could-have-ended-up-becoming-shakespearean-actor\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T19:06:34","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T19:06:34","slug":"ricky-gervais-could-have-ended-up-becoming-shakespearean-actor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/13\/ricky-gervais-could-have-ended-up-becoming-shakespearean-actor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais could have ended up becoming Shakespearean actor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2023-04-13\" datetime=\"1681412794\" pubdate=\"\">13 April 2023<\/time>\n<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/ricky-gervais\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,ricky-gervais\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ricky Gervais<\/a> had the chance to become a Shakespearean actor.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Ricky Gervais could have ended up becoming a Shakespearean actor<\/p>\n<p>The \u2018After Life\u2019 creator, 61, whose portrayal of needy boss David Brent on \u2018The Office\u2019 that shot him to fame was critically acclaimed, was considered to have enough acting chops to be offered a theatre role in one of the bard\u2019s plays.<\/p>\n<p>His agent Duncan Hayes told the \u2018Out of Office\u2019 podcast: \u201cA Shakespeare came in for him at one point \u2013 lots of stuff has come across my desk and his desk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Duncan added he doesn\u2019t have a story about \u201cthat (James) Bond\u201d moment where Ricky turned down a role that turned out to be hugely lucrative when it was taken by another actor.<\/p>\n<p>He said things never reached that point as Ricky is so focused on making his own shows \u2013 and wants to live as much of his own life outside work.<\/p>\n<p>\nDuncan added: \u201cI don\u2019t have that Bond story for you, unfortunately. I don\u2019t have that one where he turned down X and it went to Y.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cIt doesn\u2019t get to that point because he makes it fairly clear that he wants to create his own things.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cHe very much does all he can to live life to his rhythm and not to do the business.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nRicky has said he turned down an offer of starring alongside Al Pacino in a Shakespeare film adaptation.<\/p>\n<p>\nHe revealed: \u201cI don&#8217;t love Shakespeare, I don&#8217;t know if I&#8217;d be any good at it.<\/p>\n<p>\n\u201cAnd if I really wanted to meet Pacino, I&#8217;m sure I could.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\nIt recently emerged Ricky is branching out from acting and stand-up, by becoming one of the investors to fund UK canned water market leader Cano Water as it plots global expansion.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/ricky-gervais-ended-becoming-shakespearean-actor-1376752.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>13 April 2023 Ricky Gervais had the chance to become a Shakespearean actor. Ricky Gervais could have ended up becoming a Shakespearean actor The \u2018After Life\u2019 creator, 61, whose portrayal of needy boss David Brent on \u2018The Office\u2019 that shot him to fame was critically acclaimed, was considered to have enough acting chops to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1512,1511,1178,1397],"class_list":{"0":"post-13534","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-al-pacino","9":"tag-duncan-hayes","10":"tag-james-bond","11":"tag-ricky-gervais"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13534\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}