Inbetweeners star reveals comeback talks ‘have happened’ 

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29 Aug 2024, 09:34

Ooh Friends! The Inbetweeners might be on its way back, as one of its stars has revealed that the cast have spoken about returning. 

However, it seems that it wouldn’t be for another series of the massively popular TV series, but rather a third movie, according to Joe Thomas - who played Simon Cooper.

The coming-of-age television sitcom first aired from 2008 and ran for three series, with two movies also hitting cinemas. The TV show followed the misadventures of suburban teenagers played by Joe, Blake Harrison, James Buckley and Simon Bird from Friday Night Dinner, while Greg Davies also starred. The movies focused on overseas trips, post-school.

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Now, Joe has spoken positively about the chances of getting the gang back together. When the Taskmaster star was asked whether there had been conversations about a potential third movie, he said that talks had “happened in various forms and all of us feel like it would be nice'”.

Talking on the Always Be Comedy podcast, the actor said: “We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives. We all still like each other. And if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it.

“We’ve all been able to go away and get various monkeys off our backs, in terms of things that we felt we needed to do other than The Inbetweeners to prove something to ourselves.”

On what shape a potential Inbetweeners reunion would take, the Fresh Meat star suggested that a series wouldn’t be on the cards and that it would “have to be a movie,” maybe based around a stag night in Las Vegas.

He said: “You’d have to have a very, very clever device for doing another series. A movie, I think works, with the right idea. It would be challenging to do another series, just because of the timeline. But with the film, there are all sorts of options.”

And regarding the level of maturity of the characters, Joe said: “I don’t know where they would place us in terms of age. I think we could play younger, but not that much younger. It would need to be about blokes, I think. And there’s something about the adult world and how much more complicated it is, than the world of adolescence.”

He continued: “I think that adolescents feel things very, very intensely, and I think their fears and their hopes are perhaps even bigger than adults. But in terms of writing a comedy show, the variables are fairly limited, and they operate within fairly narrow parameters. It’s basically ‘Are we going to get into that party, or not?’

“Whereas when you’re an adult, there’s all this other stuff that you have to worry about. That’s why you need these set pieces, like the stag night or whatever. But then, of course, you’re not dealing with normality anymore, because, by definition, it’s a special occasion. So are you seeing them as they are, or are you seeing them as they are in Vegas, which isn’t really what they are?”

Explaining that a “film can be a special occasion,” he continued: “A film is about a disruption to normality, whereas the sitcom is about what normality is like. A film is a story with an ending. Whereas a sitcom is more like going down the pub with a friend who’s funny, and it’s just open-ended.”

The Inbetweeners is available to stream on Channel 4.