‘The Inbetweeners’ star Joe Thomas says he would be up for making a third movie in Las Vegas

Speaking on the Always Be Comedy podcast, he said: ‘We’re all still around, we’re all still in each other’s lives. We all still like each other. And if it was something that came up, I think we would want to do it.

“I feel like we all still really like each other. We’ve all been able to go away and get various monkeys off our backs, in terms of things that we felt we needed to do other than the Inbetweeners to prove something to ourselves.”

But he insisted that they would have to make a movie rather than a series.

“I don’t think they could do another series. You’d have to be a movie. You’d have to have a very, very clever device for doing another series,” he explained. “A movie, I think works with the right idea. It would be challenging to do another series, just because of the timeline. But with the film, there are all sorts of options.

“Also I don’t know where they would place us in terms of age. I think we could play younger, but not that much younger. It would need to be about blokes, I think. And there’s something about the adult world and how much more complicated it is than than the world of adolescence.”

Thomas went to explain that a third movie could be based around a stag night in Las Vegas.

He added: “I think that adolescents feel things very, very intensely, and I think their fears and their hopes are perhaps even bigger than adults. But in terms of writing a comedy show, the variables are fairly limited, and they operate within fairly narrow parameters. It’s basically ‘Are we going to get into that party, or not?’

‘Whereas when you’re an adult, there’s all this other stuff that you have to worry about. That’s why you need these set pieces, like the stag night or whatever. But then, of course, you’re not dealing with normality anymore, because, by definition, it’s a special occasion. So are you seeing them as they are, or are you seeing them as they are in Vegas, which isn’t really what they are?”

Thomas continued: “A film can be a special occasion. A film is about a disruption to normality, whereas the sitcom is about what normality is like. A film is a story with an ending. Whereas a sitcom is more like going down the pub with a friend who’s funny, and it’s just open-ended.”

His comments come after James Buckley, who played Jay Cartwright in the sitcom, also previously said it could never return for a new series, arguing that the characters wouldn’t be able to realistically behave the same way as they did in the original show.

“It was all justified because they were never the heroes,” Buckley said at the time, referring to the antics of the sixth-former friendship group. “They were idiots and they got what they deserved.”

He continued: “That’s why it can’t come back – you can’t have men in their late thirties acting like they’re in sixth form and getting away with that stuff.

Damian Jones

NME