Stewart is being rightly celebrated as a master Shakespearean stage actor and sci-fi star. But The Office creator Ricky Gervais recalled that Stewart’s genius extended to comedy as well. <\/p>\n
“What an actor,” Gervais wrote on social media. “I still can’t believe he agreed to do this scene. And he didn’t even mind when I ruined every take. Legend.”<\/p>\n
The scene Gervais was referring to was from his 2005 The Office follow-up, Extras. In it, Gervais’s character, a lowly background actor with big ambitions, enters Stewart’s trailer seeking career advice from someone he considers a serious master thespian.<\/p>\n
But all Stewart can talk about is the screenplay that he’s working on \u2014 for a movie in which he plays a man who uses his “real world” superpowers to make women’s clothes “fall off.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve seen everything,” Stewart says again and again. “I’ve seen it all.”<\/p>\n
It’s a brilliant bit of self-parody by an actor who enjoyed his roles on The Simpsons, Saturday Night Live, Sesame Street and Robin Hood: Men in Tights as much as performing Shakespeare. <\/p>\n
“I still want to try another TV comedy,” Stewart wrote in his 2023 memoir. “I still have so many characters inside me that I need to let out.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stewart is being rightly celebrated as a master Shakespearean stage actor and sci-fi star. But The Office creator…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,397],"class_list":["post-661083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}