Ricky Gervais really likes being a cat.
“I don’t have to do hair and makeup, I don’t have to get up early,” Gervais said about playing the chubby foul-mouthed tabby Gus in his new Netflix animated series Alley Cats. “The cats never get old. So as I get older and fatter, I can still sit in a chair and continue to make this forever.”
Gervais presented the first two, 15-minute episodes of Alley Cats to the Annecy crowd on Thursday and discussed the making of the show in a one-hour masterclass. He was greeted with thunderous applauses and a spontaneous chorus of “Happy Birthday” (Gervais turned 65 today).
The British creator of The Office and Extras wrote and co-directed the series, with Elliot Dear, who helmed the “All Through The House” episode from season two of Netflix’s Love Death and Robots. The show follows the adventures of a gang of British alley cats, led by Gervais’ Gus. Tom Basden, Andrew Brooke, David Earl, Kerry Godliman, Jo Hartley and Diane Morgan round out the voice cast.
‘Alley Cats’
