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Ricky Gervais reveals why he wants to ban popcorn in our exclusive interview
By Amira Hashish, Evening Standard Last updated at 13:06pm on 01.10.09
Dancing the night away: Ricky Gervais and Lionel Blair
In character: Ricky in a less joyful mood as Dr Pincus in his latest movie, Ghost Town
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There was a star-studded turn out for the VIP screening of Ricky Gervais' latest movie, Ghost Town, at the Apollo cinema in Piccadilly.
The likes of Jonathan Ross, Alan Carr and Lionel Blair were in attendance to show their support for their Golden Globe winning friend.
Gervais plays Dr. Bertram Pincus, a top dentist with appalling people skills. When Pincus 'dies' during a routine medical procedure, but is miraculously revived after seven minutes, he leaves the hospital to discover that he now has the annoying ability to see ghosts. Even worse, they all want something from him, particularly Frank Herlihy (Greg Kinnear), who pesters him into attempting to break up the impending re-marriage of his widow Gwen (Téa Leoni).
'I'm here, you know,' said Ricky during the opening credits of the special screening. The audience made sure to laugh at the right moments.
During our chat with The Office star David Baddeal came over to say hello and tell us how excited he was about seeing the film. Shortly after he left, Richard Curtis joined in.
Rapper Dizzee Rascal was also keen to talk about his love of films and music.
Click here to hear our exclusive Dizzee Rascal interview.
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Reader views (1)
Ban popcorn from a cinema thats like taking apple out of apple pie! Gervais your not even funny...try to get some new jokes or is it just the way you tell them, my gran is better at telling jokes than you are! as for dawn and lenny you dont even have a patch on them go dawn and lenny...you rock!!!!!!
- Nicole, Scotland
