Gavin And Stacey star Larry Lamb has said he “suggested” the idea of a film adaptation of the sitcom to BBC director general Tim Davie.
The 77-year-old said someone had mentioned the idea to him which he then passed on to Mr Davie, after he previously told Kate Thornton’s White Wine Question Time podcast he would “never say never” to a movie of the BBC series.
Speaking on BBC Breakfast, Lamb said: “I spoke to Tim Davie, who’s the boss man, and I suggested what somebody had said to me.
“I said, ‘Why don’t you just take this and just go and put it in a cinema?’, so that’s been turned all the way around to where I’m saying that it is going to be a film.
“I suggested to him that somebody suggested to me, ‘Why don’t you take what we’ve just done and put it in cinemas?’, that’s it.
“And he just looked at me as much as to say, ‘This is all I need, an actor telling me how to do my job, thanks very much, move on’.”
Lamb was then pressed on what a film of the sitcom could look like, to which he replied: “You’re trying to get me in trouble with the boss again, just keep watching.”
It comes after the show’s Christmas 2024 finale episode saw Neil “Smithy” Smith, played by co-writer James Corden, finally decide to marry Vanessa “Nessa” Jenkins, played by fellow co-writer Ruth Jones, after leaving Sonia (Laura Aikman) at the altar.
One of Lamb’s scenes in the final episode as Mick Shipman, the father of Gavin (Mathew Horne), which sees Smithy ask for his opinion before deciding not to marry Sonia, has been nominated for the 2025 Bafta memorable moment award.
Prior to the final episode, the show spanned for three series following the lives of Essex-born Gavin and his Welsh wife Stacey and their friends and family, after they first met on work phone calls.
