Ricky Gervais says he only writes 'a couple of minutes' of his Netflix scripts a day

• Ricky Gervais told The Mirror he only writes "a couple of minutes" of his TV scripts per day.
• Gervais said he has several projects on the go so his attention span can be as little as eight minutes.
• Gervais, working on "After Life" season three, joked his "laziness has been mistaken for integrity."

Ricky Gervais said that he only writes "a couple of minutes" of his TV scripts a day, which equates to an afternoon's filming when it comes to shooting his TV shows.

Gervais was speaking to British tabloid The Mirror about his new writing habits in lockdown, and said: "I potter around, I have more than one thing on the go, so my attention span can be eight minutes at a time."

The actor, director, and writer continued: "I look at it like this - if I am writing a script and I have got six months to write, I only have to come up with a couple of minutes a day. That couple of minutes on screen is an afternoon's filming."

Gervais said that because he writes for himself to direct the end product, everything happens a little quicker, even calling his new work routine is a "revelation."

"I am very relaxed now about everything I do," Gervais said.

Gervais did, however, joke that he is lazy in his work ethic and said his "laziness has been mistaken for integrity" in the past. Insider has reached out to Gervais for comment.

Gervais is currently working the third series of his hit Netflix show "After Life." In October, he posted to his Instagram to celebrate completing the second draft of the show's script.

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The first two seasons of "After Life" were acclaimed, and while Gervais has said he could do a fourth season if he wanted, he is choosing to end the show after this third and final season and move on to something else. This, he says, is more challenging.

"Starting again it's hard but it's more exciting, artistically," Gervais told SiriusXM in December.

Gervais is also working on two new other TV shows for Netflix. During lockdown, Gervais has kept himself occupied by writing and working on these show, and criticized other celebrities complaining about being in lockdown when there are nurses and doctors "doing 14-hour shifts and not complaining."

Meanwhile, Gervais has seemingly been contemplating his own mortality in lockdown, too, and said he'd like to be eaten by lions after he's died - a wish that, unfortunately for him, London Zoo refused to grant.