Exclusive: Nativity! Goes X Factor Martin Freeman gets festive freak on
If the poo and wee bit of the Christmas Brit-flick’s trailer made you feel like gagging, this excerpt with Martin Freeman should go some way to making you feel less sick, being as it is a) cute and b) featuring less of Marc Wootton’s insanely annoying classroom assistant, Mr Poppy.
Reuniting Freeman with his Confetti director Debbie Isitt for more improvised comedy, Nativity! follows two rival primary school teachers’ attempts to put on a show-stopping Nativity play and get a five-star review from the local critic, played by love-him-or-throw-him-from-nearest-cliff comedian Alan Carr.
Fed up with always coming second in the reviews, Freeman’s teacher tells a giant fib that his Hollywood producer ex-girlfriend (played by Extra’s Ashley Jensen) is coming to film his show, leading to a frantic amount of showing-off, backstabbing and all the other things associated with Christmas.
In this scene, little pupil Bobby and his scary-looking neon vest join the over-the-top X Factor-style audition process, pulling off some extraordinary moves in the process. If you can understand more than three lines of what he’s singing, send us a translation – adorable. Altogether now, “I want to be a Kink!"
