Golden Globes 2020 host Ricky Gervais is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter‘s brand new issue.
Here’s what he had to share with the mag…
On who is in his firing line at this year’s Golden Globes: Well, I don’t think this time [any] individuals are. I think I’ll go after the general community. I’d go after cinema and I’d go after television and I’d go after actors and I’ll go after pretension and hypocrisy. You know what I mean? I’d go after those big, nebulous things where they can all feel I’m not picking on any one person. I’m never going to point to someone and say, “You had a bad year, mate,” you know?”
On whether he’s ever regretted anything he’s said about anyone: Yeah, [a joke about] Tim Allen [when he presented with Tom Hanks at the 2011 Golden Globes]. Because I think he took it wrong…I’m teasing Tim Allen. But anyone standing next to Tom Hanks, unless it’s Dustin Hoffman or Robert Redford or Robert De Niro, that could be me. But it happened to be Tim Allen. And I have nothing against Tim Allen. He’s a good actor. He’s probably a nice bloke. So even though there’s no malice and I can justify it comedically and everyone laughed, I didn’t want Tim Allen to think, ‘Oh, that was written for me. Why me?’ Well, because you were standing next to Tom Hanks.” You can watch the joke here.
On whether they pay a lot of money for hosting the Globes: “Yeah, of course, but that’s not why I do it. I’ve got enough f*cking money. I said to my agent, “I won’t do for money anything I wouldn’t do for free.” He went, “Please don’t say that ever again.”
For more from Ricky, visit HollywoodReporter.com.
