Netflix Movies , Ricky Gervais Says Special Correspondents Costar Eric

In the new Netflix ball Special Correspondents (out today),Munich brilliant Eric Bana plays a New York-based radio announcer who pretends he is advertisement on a war if in actuality he and a colleague, portrayed by Ricky Gervais, are holed up aloft a Spanish restaurant in Queens.

“Eric plays a array of done bounded celebrity,” says Gervais, who wrote and directed the film. “He’s on radio but it didn’t plan out like he
thought. I’m a little nerd, I attending up to him. But our alternate boss, played by Kevin Pollak, he doesn’t like him. As array of a punishment, he sends him to a battle in Ecuador that’s architecture up.

I adjudge to go with him but I accidentally bandy abroad the tickets and passports. Then I appear up with the abstraction that we can affected the war. So, we go to this Spanish restaurant beyond the alley from the radio base and we alpha appearance reports. Of course, it gets out of hand, we pretend we’re missing, we pretend we’ve been taken hostage, and it all goes a bit haywire. And we’re couped up together. The meat of the blur is these two Laurel and Hardy-esque humans accepting beneath anniversary other’s skin.”

Although Bana is accepted for arena affecting roles, he in fact began his career as a amateur banana — something which Gervais didn’t in fact apperceive afore casting him in the film. “I anticipation he was this fantastic, brooding, actor, and an activity hero as well. And I begin out he’s a putz like me, which is good. He’s an idiot. He’s a stupid, big, chapped idiot, just like me. But he’s got abundant banana timing.”

Special Correspondents aswell stars Vera Farmiga, Kelly Macdonald, America Ferrera, Raúl Castillo, and Benjamin Bratt.