If you said to me in 1986 that Robert de Niro would one day drop in on a BBC sitcom. I would had said get away.
There he is. The great man himself in this episode of Extras.
The title of the episode is Jonathan Ross. At the time Ross had a chat show on the BBC as well as a film review program. His wife Jane Goldman was a screenwriter and wrote Stardust, a movie De Niro had just finished filming. Ross was instrumental in getting De Niro in this episode.
Andy is getting used to success. He is hanging around with low wattage celebrities. He befriends Jonathan Ross after appearing in his chat show. Andy is also contemplating changing agents, he has outgrown Darren.
Andy throws a challenge to Darren to arrange a meeting with De Niro or else he is fired.
You now see Andy is outgrowing his old friends. Maggie hardly sees him apart from when they get together to see an ill boy at the hospital. Even then they are rudely interrupted by Robert Lindsay who is trying to steal the limelight.
It is wonderfully daft, Barry and Darren getting turned on by a striptease pen. There is plenty of squirming as Andy tries to avoid seeing a sick boy at the hospital. Then Robert Lindsay having his nose put out of joint as he is ignored by the mother of the sick boy.
There he is. The great man himself in this episode of Extras.
The title of the episode is Jonathan Ross. At the time Ross had a chat show on the BBC as well as a film review program. His wife Jane Goldman was a screenwriter and wrote Stardust, a movie De Niro had just finished filming. Ross was instrumental in getting De Niro in this episode.
Andy is getting used to success. He is hanging around with low wattage celebrities. He befriends Jonathan Ross after appearing in his chat show. Andy is also contemplating changing agents, he has outgrown Darren.
Andy throws a challenge to Darren to arrange a meeting with De Niro or else he is fired.
You now see Andy is outgrowing his old friends. Maggie hardly sees him apart from when they get together to see an ill boy at the hospital. Even then they are rudely interrupted by Robert Lindsay who is trying to steal the limelight.
It is wonderfully daft, Barry and Darren getting turned on by a striptease pen. There is plenty of squirming as Andy tries to avoid seeing a sick boy at the hospital. Then Robert Lindsay having his nose put out of joint as he is ignored by the mother of the sick boy.