Monday, August 18, 2008

One-Man Romeo and Juilet: A Fragment from Extras

“Episode 2.1.” By Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Perf. Ricky Gervais, Stephen Merchant, Ashley Jensen, and Orlando Bloom. Dir. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Extras. Season 2, episode 1. BBC / HBO. 14 September 2006. DVD. Universal Pictures Video, 2007.
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant’s Extras has heavy doses of Shakespeare mixed in every now and then. The clip below contains an aspiring actor’s one-man version of
Romeo and Juliet. It really gets me.


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