Days before the Stateside premiere of the feature-length coda to Ricky Gervais’ TV series Extras, Mark Follman caught up with the British comic as he shot a scene with a Great Dane for his first starring role in a Hollywood film. Gervais provided some insight into Sunday night’s Christmas show and spoke at length about convincing David Bowie to appear in one of its second-season episodes, where the Thin White Duke settled in at a piano and eviscerated Gervais’ wannabe-actor Andy Millman in song. Click here for the story, and enjoy the Bowie clip above.