NEW YORK, May 1 (UPI) -- Actor and filmmaker Ricky Gervais says it would have been "mental" if he cast himself as Frank, the handsome, cool and self-absorbed, broadcast journalist in his Netflix movie Special Correspondents.
The role of Frank eventually went to Eric Bana, while Gervais portrays Frank's sweet, but bumbling technician Ian. When the men lose their plane tickets and passports on their way to cover a war in Ecuador, they start filing fake news reports from a room over a restaurant in New York City to avoid getting fired by their boss Mallard, played by Kevin Pollak.