Jeremy Clarkson has revealed the key to his curmudgeonly, grumbling character that helped propel his reveals High Gear and The Grand Tour to worldwide success – it was all an act.
Clarkson, whose hit collection Clarkson’s Farm returns to Amazon Prime’s international platform on Might 3, advised The Guardian newspaper he had intentionally made “a comic book creation.”
He stated: “Everybody assumes the character they see on motoring reveals is me, but it surely’s exaggerated. To suppose that I used to be like I used to be on High Gear is similar as considering that Anthony Hopkins is a cannibal.”
And he stated that, as a working farmer whose challenges and triumphs are all captured on digital camera for his hit present, he feels no strain to be controversial any extra:
“I don’t must suppose, ‘Proper, I’m going to say one thing stupidly provocative now.’ That’s enjoyable. Additionally, you don’t get up each morning to seek out you’re in the midst of a tabloid maelstrom for one thing you’ve stated or carried out.”
Clarkson advised The Guardian his earlier, famously dismissive, angle to international farming needs to be seen on this mild:
“That was a part of the caricature. It was a joke.
“Now you suppose, ‘My neighbours over there, they’ve needed to replant every part as a result of it’s all drowned.’ I can’t imagine it’s not dominating the information agenda,”
Clarkson’s Farm, with the third season about to start, is probably the most watched present on Amazon Prime within the UK and season 4 has already been commissioned.