Don’t worry about it.
Yeah, we’ll sort it out."
“We had two scripts,” James said during a recentEmmys FYC panel series moderated byEntertainment Weekly.
Theo James and Daniel Ings on Netflix’s ‘The Gentlemen’.netflix
“The conceit was very good, but the meat was not fully there.
And I remember speaking to Guy and he’s like, ‘Yeah, f— it.
Don’t worry about it.
Yeah, we’ll sort it out.
We’ll sort it out.’
And we’re like, ‘oh God.'”
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James continued: “Guy famously likes [to work with just] the bones of a script.
But in a way, for comedy, that really works because it keeps everyone on their toes.
It keeps a kinetic energy.
It means it’s possible for you to be a little fluid with the direction of each scene.
I think it’s harder if it’sSuccessionor something like that, where everything is very acute.
But in this world it works really well.
And it’s certainly Guy’s … That’s how he does everything.”
And I think we quickly got to know each other much better and formed a kind of trust.
There’s no script for today.
You guys are going to make it up.’
So you need that kind of trust.
And Theo’s very good at going, ‘I think we’ve had this argument before.
I think we need to turn it on head.'"
The full season ofThe Gentlemenis streaming on Netflix.
