Man vs Baby has landed on Netflix, bringing back beloved Mr Bean actor Rowan Atkinson as Trevor Bingley, who trades his house-sitting duties for the role of school caretaker. Yet his new position proves far more challenging than anticipated, landing him in quite the predicament.


During the school's nativity production, a genuine infant is cast as baby Jesus, but when the child's mother fails to collect him following the performance, Trevor - who was revealed in an exclusive first-look for viewers - suddenly finds himself caring for an unplanned houseguest. Prior to the series launch, Atkinson and director David Kerr sat down with Reach and fellow journalists for a QandA discussing some of the show's most striking filming locations.


A significant portion of the series, which boasts a star-studded cast, unfolds within an opulent London penthouse belonging to an extraordinarily wealthy family - a far cry from Trevor's usual surroundings. The penthouse boasts distinctive features, including a revolving sculpture on the terrace, a sports simulator and a kitchen equipped with cutting-edge technology.


When questioned about whether the lavish London penthouse was genuine, David delivered deflating news for enthusiasts.


He revealed: "No it isn't, sorry. If anyone is planning to put a bid on it, it doesn't exist. It was a set build, but the fact you had to ask is it a real penthouse, I hope that's what people think when they watch it. But no, it is all smoke and mirrors and quite a lot of fake marble and gold."


Filming for the four-part series took place across multiple iconic London locations, including Piccadilly Circus and its famous underground station. Trinity Square and the Tower Hill vicinity were also converted into production sets, alongside Myatt's Fields Park on Cormont Road in Camberwell.


The St James's district in the City of Westminster features prominently throughout the series, with additional sequences captured at Ongar Railway Station in Chipping Ongar, Essex. Blackadder legend Atkinson revealed fascinating details about the technical challenges of working with the infant co-star.


He explained: "We should emphasise of course that the baby was twins, you always choose twins so if one gets grizzly you can bring the other one in. You can only have a baby on set for 45 minutes [a total of two hours a day] and a shoot day is eight or 10 hours so there are so many hours that you can't actually continue filming that scene. You have got to film a different scene, or a different shot, just looking the other way.



"The scheduling is tricky with babies. So we have identical twins, the hero babies, and then we had twin crawling babies because the hero babies couldn't crawl. So that's where the CGI comes in, when you implant the face of the hero baby into the crawling baby."


He continued, explaining that whilst the physical comedy posed little difficulty, the real challenge lay in appearing in every scene, meaning "you don't really get days off once you start shooting, so that wasn't easy".


The star elaborated: "But we managed it, and I think the main challenge was just keeping the story and the logic of it in your head when you are dealing with a co-star who, you know, there's not much chat between takes. You have just got to go with the flow, but I was OK with the babies, keeping them happy."


Man vs Baby is on Netflix

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