'Staged' took inspiration from The Beatles' 'Get Back' documentary.
Michael Sheen and David Tennant also work together on Good Omens
The popular BBC sitcom - which stars Michael Sheen and David Tennant as fictional versions of themselves as they initially tried to organise a stage show over Zoom calls - is coming to an end with the current third series, and David admitted they needed to find a "clever" idea to make the new episodes worth it.
He told the Radio Times magazine: "We needed an idea clever, creative and silly enough to be able to spin some new stuff.
"[Writers] Phin Glynn and Simon Evans came up with something, slightly inspired by the Beatles’ 'Get Back' documentary, that gave us reason to come back.
"We love doing it – that first series was such a huge tonic in the heat of lockdown, when we had a very young baby and were reaching the nadir of our day-to-day experience with home-schooling."
The two actors first started filming the comedy during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, while the show featured appearances from David's wife Georgia and Michael's partner Anna Lundberg as well as writer/director Simon Evans, and there were also cameos from Hollywood stars including Samuel L. Jackson, Dame Judi Dench, Whoopi Goldberg, Ewan McGregor, and Cate Blanchett.
When it came to having his family involved and showing his actual home, David explained it was a matter of timing and the pandemic.
He said: "I don’t think it’s something we would have done, had circumstances not enforced it.
"We’ve always been – and I don’t apologise for this – quite overprotective of our family bubble, which comes from having our relationship scrutinised very early on and wanting to keep all that to ourselves.
"But we’ve been together for a long time and maybe we’re more confident about that now. We recently did our first photoshoot as a couple, which was very peculiar."
Meanwhile, the 'Doctor Who' star recently confirmed 'Staged' won't be returning for a fourth series.
He told The Sun newspaper: "We’ve had a wonderful time filming the series but have no plans to do more. It was a show borne out of a particular period of time – lockdown – when we were all in our houses communicating via Zoom, as our characters did in the show."
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