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Felicity Ward, star of Australia’s forthcoming “The Office” adaptation, has reassured any concerned fans that Ricky Gervais personally approved her casting

Published Time: 01.10.2024 - 16:31:32 Modified Time: 01.10.2024 - 16:31:32

Felicity Ward, star of Australia’s forthcoming “The Office” adaptation, has reassured any concerned fans that Ricky Gervais personally approved her casting.

“Ricky Gervais has approved a female lead, he’s very excited about a female lead — just in case anyone is angry,” Ward quipped during the Prime Video Presents: Trailblazers event on Tuesday in London, where she debuted a trailer from the series.

Asked about how she was feeling about the show’s imminent release on Prime Video in Australia and the U.K. on Oct. 18, she said jokingly: “Pretty chill actually. English people and people that love ‘The Office,’ they’re like, ‘Hey, whatever you do with it is fine.'”

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this is every annoying part of my personality.’ I’ve been preparing for this my whole life,” Ward said.

“It was just all in the script. And I don’t know if it’s showrunner Julie De Fina… I don’t know how much she had seen of me before, but it was as if she just, like, got the tapes and then edited out the charm and the bits that people liked and and then just wrote a character, so it’s just there.”

After the audience watched a sneak peek, which involved Ward’s Howard hula hooping in the office (bashing someone on the head mid-hoop) and bringing up the ‘mile high club’ during a team-building exercise on boundaries, the actor shared: “It’s very strange playing a character where you’re supposed to make people cringe because you watch it like, urgh, that’s the design.”