Ricky Gervais pays tribute to his 'beautiful' canine co-star Anti as After Life dog dies age 13
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Ricky Gervais has paid tribute to his canine co-star Anti on Wednesday after her death aged 13. The Vislor Antilly, known to most people as Brandy, the comedian's loyal sidekick in Netflix's After Life, passed away peacefully at her home in Oxfordshire.
Ricky shared: 'Sad News. 'Anti', who played 'Brandy' in AfterLife, has died. She was 13 and a very good girl.'. He added in a statement: 'This is such sad news. Anti was a beautiful soul. We hit it off straight away and she helped make After Life my favourite filming experience of all time.
'I’m so glad that I told her a hundred times a day that she was a very good girl.'. In 2018, Anti was cast personally by Ricky as Brandy, Tony Johnson’s (played by Ricky) trusty companion. Ricky Gervais has paid tribute to his canine co-star Anti on Wednesday after her death aged 13.
She stood by him through thick and thin for all three seasons of the critically acclaimed dark comedy following the death of his wife, Lisa (played by Kerry Godliman). The show hit the Number 1 spot on Netflix’s most-watched programmes around the globe.
Anti gained worldwide fame, causing Ricky to have to repeatedly promise fans on social media that 'the dog does not die' in the run-up to every season, earning the title of 'The World’s Most Famous Dog' for her role as a faithful friend to Tony and helping him deal with the grief of the loss of Lisa.
Anti was born in April 2011 in Herefordshire, at the home of Vislor Dog Training Centre. She became part of a four-legged family that had already appeared on the silver screen – both of Anti’s parents, also raised by Vislor trainers Travis and Ashley Foster, appeared together with Bane's henchmen in Christopher Nolan's $1bn blockbuster Batman: The Dark Knight Rises in 2012.
