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Episode 5: Ian McKellen
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- Season: 2
- Episode: 5
- First Aired: 10/12/2006
- Prod Code: ENTB484Y
Andy, in search of some credibility, gets a part in a play with Sir Ian McKellen. But when he finds out that the play - 'A Month of Summers', is a tale of love between men, he's uncomfortable with the part. He feels even less comfortable when some of his old school friends come to see the play.
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- Writers:
- Ricky GervaisStephen Merchant
- Director:
- Ricky GervaisStephen Merchant
- Stars:
- Ricky Gervais (Andy Millman)
- Ashley Jensen (Maggie Jacobs)
- Recurring Role:
- Jamie Chapman (Brains)
- Stephen Merchant (Andy's agent)
- Guest Star:
- Mark Lawson (I) (Himself)
- Sarah Moyle (Kimberley)
- Liza Tarbuck (Rita)
- Guy Henry (Iain Morris)
- Martin Savage (Damon Beesley)
- Ian McKellen (Himself)
- Shaun Williamson (Barry)
- Andrew Buckley (Gobbler)
- Shaun Pye (Greg)
- Gerard Kelly (Bunny)
- Mark Kermode (Himself)
- Germaine Greer (Herself)
- Rufus Wright (Fran/Leslie)
- Priyanga Burford (Sir Ian's assistant)
- Anna Crilly (Woman at tea table)
- Jonathan Cake (Steve Sherwood)
- Nadia Williams (Third AD)
- Sarah Preston (Make-up woman)
- The song featured in this episode is, 'Boys keep swinging' by, David Bowie - it reached No. 7 in the U.K. Top 40 in May 1979.
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- After the hairdresser storms out because Andy doesn't know her name, a crew member is visible in the background mirror. edit »
- Andy: Idiot.
Agent: You talking to me?
Andy: Yes, I'm talking to you! Didn't you read the play?
Agent: What play?
Andy: The play I'm in, the play that you got me a part in. It's a gay play. I've got to play a gay, with another gay. Acting all gay. All through the play, it's so gay!
edit » - Ian McKellen: How did I know what to say? They had my lines written down on a script. How did I know where to stand? People showed me. edit »
- (Andy is involved in a scene in which Ian McKellen is physically holding Andy's head while another male character is attempting to kiss him)
Andy: It's like bloody Deliverance...
Deliverance is a 1972 film that is shot primarily in the rivers and woods of Appalachia. In the film's most psychologically terrifying sequence a sexually-perverted Appalachian native humiliates the character of Bobby (a chubby-faced, defenceless man). He forces the man to first strip down to his underwear. He then makes Bobby squeal like a pig before sodomising him.
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Episode 5: Ian McKellen
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