Romesh Ranganathan was “very angry” with himself over the scripts for ‘Avoidance’.
Romesh Ranganathan is annoyed at himself over Avoidance series 2
The 45-year-old actor is reprising his role as Jonathan in the second series of the BBC comedy – which he created and wrote as well as starring and serving as executive producer – but he’s annoyed at his decision to make his character get “really into cycling”.
He said: “I thought it would be funny to have him in lycra for large parts of the series, but when you’re writing it you forget that you’ve actually got to put that stuff on.
“Actor Romesh found himself very angry with writer Romesh in terms of what he’d made him do…
“I would love, if we do another series of this, for Jonathan to have moved beyond the lycra stage but because I look so ridiculous in it I imagine it might make a comeback.”
Romesh admitted he and Jonathan are both “conflict avoidant and a bit of a beta-male”, and they definitely have a lot in common.
He explained: “The similarities between myself and my character are that he is somebody who is a bit of a people pleaser, he’s worried about upsetting anybody and so inadvertently upsets everybody by not being decisive enough.
“I definitely do share that, there are lots of occasions where I haven’t cancelled something and I need to be somewhere else – so two places in one night.
“My wife refers to them as ‘Romesh situations’ and I feel like Romesh situations and Jonathan situations have a lot in common.”
Meanwhile, the ‘Weakest Link’ host opened up on filming the second series, explaining that there was “a lot of improv” this time round when it came to the actors having more freedom on set.
He said: “The truth is there were lots and lots of moments where we were just corpsing at stuff, we did a lot of improv of lines in this series and it made for a lot of corpsing and ruining of takes, but it was a hell of a lot of fun.”
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