Steve Coogan has admitted the lines between him and his alter-ego Alan Partridge have become “blurred” after playing the madcap character for 34 years on screen, stage and now in a podcast
Steve Coogan has admitted the lines between him and his alter-ego Alan Partridge have become “blurred”.
The actor has been playing the madcap character for 34 years on screen, stage and now in a podcast.
Steve, 59, confessed: “The line blurs sometimes. I like doing Alan – doing Alan is like putting my slippers and pyjamas on.
“I get to channel those unfiltered, unexpurgated, petty prejudices.
“During the last TV series, I went into the trailer to put Alan’s clothes on and I was wearing a shirt that was identical to the one they had hanging up for Alan.
“I don’t mean similar, I mean same pattern, same label. It was the same shirt.
“I still had to take my shirt off and put his on, just for my own sanity.”
The I’m Alan Partridge star said he had to physically swap the clothes around to convince himself he hadn’t morphed into the spoof broadcaster.
He added: “Then, at the end of the day, I took it off and put it back on the hanger.
“I needed to do that to reassure myself there hadn’t been this moment of singularity where the Venn diagram becomes just one circle. I like to think it’s still a figure eight, at least.”
Steve also revealed he has a split personality when it comes to making From the Oasthouse: The Alan Partridge Podcast.
He explained: “If we’re wondering what to do next, we just ask, ‘What would Alan do?’ and it doesn’t matter if it looks a bit desperate.
“Alan said something that made me laugh. He says, ‘I decided to interview some experts rather than just confident people with podcasts’ – of which there is a tsunami, frankly.”
Meanwhile, Steve was asked by Radio Times if Partridge was influenced by Richard Madeley and smiled in response.
He added: “And a number of other people. I don’t want to drop them in it. There is a handful of people, not all of whom I dislike.
“I don’t dislike Alan either, he’s not mean, he’s just ill-informed, nakedly ambitious and trying to decide which way the wind is blowing in terms of his career relevance.”
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