The Cast of 'The Gentlemen' Improvised More of the Show Than You Might Think

Entertainment Weekly

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

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