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Gervais in GTA4The Grand Theft Auto games have always featured star names: Ray Liotta, James Woods, Dennis Hopper, er, Danny Dyer – and it’s just emerged that Britain’s premier funnyman Ricky Gervais will have a small role in GTA IV.

The comedian will appear in the Liberty City Comedy Club, performing three minutes of new material, plus some stuff from his recent Fame tour. And the folks at Rockstar Games didn’t just record his vocal talents – they squeezed him into a motion capture suit to get his physical movements too.

“It’s a first, which always interests me,” Gervais told Shortlist magazine. “It was shot in New York, and I got to wear a tight Lycra suit as part of the digital process. That wasn’t so good. Unfortunately they captured the whole horror, except I look slightly tougher.

“It’s seriously a big deal though. Games have outsold Hollywood for the past few years so it’s nice to be a small part of that.”

You won’t have to wait too long to catch Ricky’s first digital performance, as GTA IV hits the shops two weeks tomorrow.

Out 29th April | £49.99
Grand Theft Auto IV (via Eurogamer)

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