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Going Loopy for Iannucci
Gail Tolley sat down with In the Loop director, Armando Iannucci and actors Peter Capaldi and Chris Addison to chat about TV series The Thick of It, the need for political satire and sneaking out of maths class to visit the GFT. Armando Iannucci describes his new film as “a cousin” or perhaps a “brother-in-law” of his successful television series The Thick of It and, whilst there are many similarities (most notably Peter Capaldi’s hilariously foul-mouthed character, Malcolm Tucker), it’s certainly not prerequisite viewing for this thoroughly enjoyable film, which is crammed full of one-liners and witticisms. This acerbic political satire, about US and British politics in the build-up to a Middle Eastern conflict, brings some light relief to a subject matter that has been dealt with in a pretty serious manner in films up until now (think Oliver Stone’s W or Stephen Gaghan’s Syriana). As Chris Addison, who plays the fresh-faced Toby says “it’s the laughter of relief, and I think there’s something really appealing about that to audiences”. It is this which Iannucci attributes to the fantastic reaction that the film received when it was shown at Sundance last month, “ I think it was to do with the fact that they [the audience] just wanted to get it out
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of their system, they were relieved to see it up in front of them and dealt with”. Yet far from existing merely as a post-event commentary Iannucci stresses that “there was this sense that it could happen again, because it’s not all about evil, nasty people it’s about slightly fragile people occasionally making the wrong decision. I think it’s quite important we see how these things happen, it’s not one person pushing a button, it’s to do with a collective atmosphere.” For both Iannucci and Capaldi there’s the added enjoyment of bringing the film to their home city. And the Glasgow Film Theatre, where the opening gala was held holds some fond memories for them both. For Capaldi it was seeing the Disney classic Dumbo when the place was still called The Cosmo and Iannucci recalls “sneaking out of maths class because Felicity Kendall was in a one-to-one interview, and saying it was for English but really it was to sit in the front row and stare [at her]!”
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