While speaking with EW’s Patrick Gomez and his co-star Daniel Ings, ‘The Gentlemen' actor Theo James recounts just how flexible the script was when he worked with director Guy Ritchie. Taped Live at Netflix FYSEE’24.
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00:00Guy as I'm sure some of you aware is famously he likes the bones of a script
00:05So we had two scripts didn't we and the conceit was very good
00:08But the meat was I mean not fully there and I remember speaking to guy and he's like, yeah, fuck it. Don't worry about it
00:13Don't worry about yeah, we'll sort it out. We'll sort it out. We're like, oh god
00:17But that is very much how he does it, you know
00:19You you have the beginning of a scene in the end of a scene and everything in the middle
00:24He's up for grabs and that was an experience that we had to really
00:28Understand because it's in the first day. We're like, what the fuck are we doing?
00:32But in a way for comedy that really works because it keeps it keeps everyone on their toes. It keeps a kinetic energy it
00:41Means you can be a little fluid with the direction of each scene. I think it's harder if it's you know, a
00:47Succession or something like that where everything is is very acute
00:50But in this world, it works really well, and it's certainly guys. That's how he does everything
00:55We quickly
00:57Performed we got to know each other much better and and formed us a kind of trust and it is like they were saying
01:03It's scary when you turn up to work and they're like
01:06You don't have it. There's no script for today. You're gonna you guys are gonna make it up
01:09So you need that that kind of trust?
01:11and as the show went on we just
01:14were able to then keep kind of going back and forth about it and figuring out where we were missing things or
01:19Repeating beats and Theo's very good at going like I think we've I think we've had this argument before
01:24I think we need to kind of turn it on its head
01:26Yeah that and a bunch of kissing was those loads. It was yeah, I mean