The Trip to Italy Page #2

Oh, God, tell him I'm not in.

He does my head in.

So Childe Stephen-

we'll do it as an article,

turn it into a Sunday night

serial on BBC One.

Who plays you?

- A Sunday night costume drama

about my life?

- Yeah.

Who plays you?

It could happen.

Who plays you?

Play myself.

- You couldn't do that-

It's "childe. "

It's meant to be

like a young marl.

You could have Jude Law.

Jude Law's 40-plus.

He doesn't look it, does he?

He hasn't aged like you and I.

Well, he's balding.

- Yeah, but he's got that face,

he does.

- He's got that really young

bald look.

- When you played

Alan Partridge-

you know,

when he was popular-

you-he was more known

than you.

And, of course,

he was older than you.

But with me,

with The Rob Brydon Show,

my name is in the title.

I sort of push that.

- Yeah.

- If I were in a bar in a hotel

in Britain, right,

and I wanted to have a drink

with a girl,

I couldn't do it,

'cause there would be

an assumption-

"Oh, what's he doing?"

- Go and chat to Rob Brydon?

- Yeah.

People think I'm affable.

Affable.

That's what I-

- Well, you are.

- I'm affable. I'm affable.

- I'm not disagreeing with you.

- I'm an affable man.

I'm not disagreeing with you.

But my public persona

is even more affable

than I actually am.

I'm not as affable

as people think I am.

- You've made an affable rod

for your own back.

Yes.

Yes, and I'm not saying

I'm not affable.

I am affable.

We're agreed there.

But I'm not as affable

as perhaps I've given people

cause to think.

Crystal clear.

- So out here,

I can be off the leash.

I can-I can let my hair-

what is left of it-

down.

Yeah.

- And, you know,

have a good time.

Oh, lovely.

Mmm.

Grazia mills.

Bon appetite.

Grazia.

You know, there's a publisher

who is very interested

in putting these articles

into a book,

a Christmas stocking book.

- How do they think

they're gonna

get six articles

and turn it into a book?

- Well, we would also do

the ones from the Lake District,

from the English ones.

What did you think of them?

- I didn't read them.

I was in America, acting.

- They were

a lightly fictionalized account

of your adventures

in the north of England.

- How were they

lightly fictionalized?

The names were changed to-

What about my name?

- We kept your name, but

the girls' names were changed.

- So how do they know

it's fictionalized if it says

"Steve Coogan's Adventures

in the Lake District"?

Did you say,

"[Penned by Rob Brydonl"?

No?

- Not in the traditional sense.

No, no.

But then I did do the work

for you, didn't I?

Mmm.

Bellissimo.

- What do you think

on the mini, then?

You enjoying it?

I'm... I'm pleasantly surprised.

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