James Buckley doesn’t think he’s funny.
James Buckley doesn’t think he’s funny
The 36-year-old actor - who shot to fame after starring as sex-mad teenager Jay Cartwright in the coming-of-age comedy ‘The Inbetweeners’ - thinks people only find him comedic because he is “funny looking”.
He is quoted by The Sun newspaper's TVBiz column as saying: “I don’t actually think I’m a particularly funny person. I think that maybe I’m just funny looking and that’s why they laugh when they see me on telly.
“I’ve never approached any job as if it were a comedy, even when I was doing ‘The Inbetweeners’.”
James stars in the new Channel 5 drama ‘Finders Keepers’, in which he plays a metal detector enthusiast who, along with his fiancee's father (played by Neil Morrisey), finds a Saxon hoard and attempts to sell it.
Reflecting on his role in the series with RadioTimes.com, James said: “It’s obviously very serious, but I think me and Neil … our job is to play it for truth, and to be truthful to the script and to the text. And I think the truth was that we both saw the comedy in it a lot of times as well.”
"There's some stuff that's really dark, and it goes to places where you don't imagine – especially someone like me, who's pretty much been strictly comedy throughout their whole career, it goes to places where you don't imagine that - and I think that could be quite a surprise.”
James' co-star had also spoken about the show , and how he felt the story was “so relatable”.
In an interview with the Daily Mail Weekend, Neil said: “Martin makes one bad decision, then it all goes wrong.
“That’s how most things happen, which is why this story is so relatable – and such great fun to play.”
The 61-year-old actor then revealed that he read a book about metal detecting in order to prepare for the role.
He said: “I learned how far the detector has to be off the floor, the pace you can move it and how you get a ‘read’. But detectorists are quite passionate so I’ll probably get letters saying I did something wrong!”
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