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Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Armando Iannucci's great voyage from Alan Partridge to Veep to The Death of Stalin

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore

Unfiltered with Oli Dugmore || JOE Media

Society & Culture

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 24 October 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

James meets Armando Iannucci, the man behind The Day Today, I’m Alan Partridge, The Thick of It and Veep. In this career-spanning interview, Armando offers his astute observations of American and British politics through the lenses of Trump and Brexit, talks about his new film The Death of Stalin, working with Steve Coogan and Chris Morris, and how being a director nearly turned him into a dictator himself.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the fourth episode of Unfiltered which features Armando Yinucci a man I haven't met before today

0:06.8

But whose work has probably tickled me more than almost anyone else alive Alan Partridge the day- to day, right through to the thick of it,

0:14.5

Vip over in America, Sundry other projects,

0:17.6

and now the death of Stalin, which is not only the first film

0:21.2

to give the finest British actor of his generation Simon Russell

0:25.0

Beale the film role he so desperately deserves but also to bring another ensembler cast together

0:30.9

in in ways that are truly hilarious. I'm really really looking forward to this.

0:39.5

Hello and welcome to Unfiltered Armando You Nusci.

0:43.0

Hello. We're very glad to have you here.

0:45.0

Not least because your CV reads like a

0:48.0

pretty much a greatest hits of the funniest things on British screens over the course of the last two decades? It's been a long time, yes.

0:58.0

It's people don't talk. I remember I used to be a young Turk.

1:01.0

Did you? Yeah. The future. You were the future once. No, I'm just a Turk. And we are, we're going to get stuck right into the new film, Death of Stalin. But before we do that, two things occurred to me just on the way here. The first was, we were Robert Webb was our guest last.

1:16.0

Oh yeah. And he was very interesting on the period in his career in his late 20s when they'd crack the writing side of it.

1:22.0

But it was beginning to

1:23.6

look like they were never going to be performers and right that there was

1:27.0

attention for him and David Mitchell there was very much a kind of well we really

1:30.4

really want to perform yeah you're fascinating in many ways because you've done both, you've cracked both and you appear to have satisfied most of your performing originally?

1:39.0

When I started I went through the same sort of angst, didn't you know, I've always written and I used to you know always

1:44.0

written and I used to you know always perform my own material I've never

1:48.9

thought myself as an actor in terms of being able to do other

1:51.5

characters and so on.

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