The Inbetweeners play themselves on screen, says new cast member

The Inbetweeners actors may be more like their TV counterparts than they first thought
Fooling around: The award winning comedy quad say they find it hard to come out of character when they're together
Emma Powell14 July 2014
The Weekender

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The Inbetweeners cast - James Buckley, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison - have their own lives, but they behave more like their younger characters when they are all in the same room.

The four main stars of the award winning comedy - James Buckley, Simon Bird, Joe Thomas and Blake Harrison - may be grown up with their own families and relationships, but Emily Berrington has had a chance to work with them on their upcoming movie and she revealed not everything is not so different.

She said: "It's odd because individually all four Inbetweeners are totally different from their characters. They all have wives or long-term girlfriends and there were even baby Inbetweenies on location with us.

"But when they are together as a group filming they are amazingly similar - James Buckley, for example, thinks there is nothing funnier than breaking wind and Joe Thomas is famous for eating disgusting things.

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Don't worry they not chuck children into swimming pools or throw frisbees at disabled kids - they just enjoy goofing around.

Berrington said: "One day on set there was a dead cockroach on the floor and I said to Simon Bird, 'Yuk, look at that', and he went, 'I reckon we can get Joe to eat it.' "

Despite a typically boyish atmosphere on set, Emily explained the show's huge female fanbase will love the highly-anticipated second movie.

She told You magazine: "Being a teenage girl is a traumatic, confusing, oily-skinned experience and it's great to see that from the perspective of a teenage boy you were probably a goddess whose whole life seemed sorted.

"I think that's what women like about The Inbetweeners! "

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