This new Brent is okay. Australian actress Felicity Ward has revealed Ricky Gervais “accredited” of her interpretation of his iconic terrible boss character in The Workplace.
Actor and comic Ward is enjoying Hannah Howard in The Office Australia, which launches on Prime Video outdoors of the U.S. on October 18. Although the present has been remade in quite a few nations, with the well-known David Brent character reinterpreted many time, this marks the primary time the gender has been modified.
Ward was showing on the Prime Video Trailblazers occasion celebrating girls in movie and TV right here in London at the moment. “Ricky Gervais has accredited of a feminine lead — he’s very excited a couple of feminine lead,” she half-joked to an viewers at the moment, including: “Simply in case anybody is offended.”
Upon announcement of the present, Brent had stated in a press release: “Workplace politics have modified a bit in 20 years, so can’t wait to see how they navigate a modern-day David Brent.”
One other clip of The Workplace Australia, which is from BBC Studios Australia and New Zealand and Bunya Leisure, was performed to the viewers on the Prime Video occasion at the moment, with Howard joking that British folks have been “very chill” about new interpretations of Brent.
Showing on a panel alongside The Satan’s Hour star Jessica Raine and director Louise Hooper, Ward ssaid she had performed “zero preparation” for the function and that the character was “each annoying a part of my peronality” with the “attraction edited out.”
