CELEBRITY Comic Ricky Gervais has been spotted filming the latest series of Netflix show After Life this week. The Reading-born celebrity, who grew up in Whitley, was not too far from his old stomping ground while filming across the border in neighbouring county Buckinghamshire. Local fans of the dark comedy-drama will already know that the Beaconsfield area features heavily in the first two seasons – and the third is set to be no different.
Ricky, who plays Tony Johnson, a local newspaper writer who is struggling to come to terms with his wife’s death, was filming at the Royal Standard of England pub in Forty Green this week.
Ricky Gervais has been spotted filming the latest series of Netflix show After Life at a popular country pub this week. Local fans of the black comedy-drama will already know that the Beaconsfield area features heavily in the first two seasons – and the third is set to be no different. Ricky, who plays Tony Johnson, a local newspaper writer who is struggling to come to terms with his wife’s death, was filming at the Royal Standard of England pub in Forty Green this week. In photos sent to the Bucks Free Press by the team, Ricky posed socially-distanced at the historic pub with owner Anna O’Keeffe, after what staff said was a “lovely and good humoured morning” of filming.