{"id":682758,"date":"2026-07-09T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682758\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:06:11","slug":"actors-from-the-office-reflect-on-uk-sitcoms-25-year-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/682758\/","title":{"rendered":"Actors from The Office reflect on UK sitcom&#8217;s 25-year anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Beckett said while the show was set in Slough, it was actually filmed in a working office at Teddington Studios.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said: &#8220;Usually you&#8217;d get a script&#8230; with this particular audition you were asked to come in in character, there was no script, and you weren&#8217;t allowed to break until Ricky had finished the audition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">On the filming, he said: &#8220;It was so low-budget there was just a camera on the shoulder of the cameraman and that was it&#8230; so you were allowed to try things where normally on set you wouldn&#8217;t be able to do that.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s such a great show, and the fact that people are talking about it 25 years later, that&#8217;s good enough for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">To mark the anniversary, Gervais hosted a YouTube special which shared previously untold and exclusive stories from set, and gave fans an insight into the mind of his eccentric character.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 65-year-old comedian divulged his 25 favourite moments as incompetent office manager Brent and delved into the inspiration behind some of his most memorable lines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Beckett said while the show was set in Slough, it was actually filmed in a working office at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682759,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-682758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}