{"id":953056,"date":"2026-10-31T10:58:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953056\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T10:58:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T10:58:14","slug":"ricky-gervais-remembers-ruining-every-take-of-patrick-stewart-extras-cameo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/953056\/","title":{"rendered":"Ricky Gervais remembers \u2018ruining every take\u2019 of Patrick Stewart Extras cameo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Ricky Gervais<\/a> has paid tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart<\/a> following the legendary British actor\u2019s death at 86.<\/a><\/p>\n

The X-Men star<\/a>\u2019s family confirmed that he passed away at his home in Los Angeles on Thursday following a brief \u201djourney\u201d with Alzheimer\u2019s disease and Lewy body dementia.<\/a><\/p>\n

Following the news, Gervais shared a blooper reel from Sir Patrick\u2019s 2005 appearance on his sitcom, Extras<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The clips showed the comedian frequently bursting out laughing as Sir Patrick tried to deliver lines about a fictional script centred on a character using mind control to take women\u2019s clothes off.<\/p>\n

Gervais captioned the post: \u201cRIP Patrick Stewart. What an actor. I still can\u2019t believe he agreed to do this scene. And he didn\u2019t even mind when I ruined every take. Legend.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"RickyRicky Gervais has paid tribute to Sir Patrick Stewart on social media, sharing a blooper reel of the late actor\u2019s appearance in \u2018Extras\u2019 (Getty)<\/p>\n

Sir Patrick\u2019s appearance in Extras earned him a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, while the scene took around 45 takes.<\/p>\n

In his memoir Making It So, Star Trek star recalled: \u201cRicky burst into peals of laughter that he simply couldn\u2019t bring to a stop.<\/p>\n

\u201c\u2018Knickers\u2019 was the specific word that first set him off. But soon it was anything I said. The more seriously I behaved, the more Ricky laughed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tributes have continued to pour out for the veteran of stage and screen.<\/p>\n

In a similar post on social media, actor Riz Ahmed<\/a> praised Sir Patrick\u2019s appearance in his 2026 Amazon Prime comedy-drama, Bait.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you\u2019ve seen Bait, you\u2019ll know there is a very important and very strange voice role at the heart of it,\u201d wrote Ahmed on Facebook alongside a photo of him and Sir Patrick in a voice recording studio.<\/p>\n

\u201cMine and my co-showrunner Ben Karlin dream first choice and truly the only person we thought could pull it off was [Sir Patrick]\u2026 and we still can\u2019t believe he said yes! He is the benchmark of artistic greatness, longevity, and a living legend,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n

\u201c… Working with him and witnessing first hand his gigantic talent and huge heart was one of the most humbling, & incredible experiences of my career.<\/p>\n

\u201cThank you Sir Patrick for being the don that you are, and taking our show to another level.\u201d<\/p>\n

The actor\u2019s final performance will arrive this Christmas, with Stewart reprising his Professor X role in Marvel\u2019s Avengers: Doomsday.<\/p>\n

He is survived by his wife, Sunny Ozell, and his two children, Daniel and Sophie Stewart<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":953057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-953056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=953056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/953056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/953057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=953056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=953056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=953056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}