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INTERVIEW: In ‘The Penguin Lessons’, the man behind Alan Partridge plays a school teacher in military-occupied Argentina who ...
As if penguins didn’t have enough to fret about with impending tariffs on exporting guano to America, here comes Steve Coogan ...
Steve Coogan has acted opposite all manner of major ... "Well, I'm not a great animal person, so it was written into my contract that I wouldn't have to touch the penguin or pick it up or be ...
And not only does the flightless bird at its centre melt the heart of a full-time cynic (logically played by Steve Coogan), but it inspires him to take (minor) action against the US-backed ...
No-one does mild-mannered, gently acerbic cinema for the matinee crowd quite like the British, and the new Steve Coogan movie ... It's old-fashioned movie-animal charisma, the kind that's sure ...
Simply sign up to the Film myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Steve Coogan is pretty reliable when it comes to playing world-weary characters whose passion is revived by a cause ...
It’s unclear – but still, The Penguin Lessons persists. And not only does the flightless bird at its centre melt the heart of a full-time cynic (logically played by Steve Coogan), but it inspires him ...
Steve Coogan tells me this with a sort of “eh, can you believe it?” arch to his eyebrows. Pryce confirms as much. “I’m not an animal person,” says the 77-year-old with an air of grave ...
Steve Coogan gives quite a tender performance in The Penguin Lessons – it’s just a pity about the surroundings. He plays a teacher who has checked out, in this whimsical comedy-drama based on a memoir ...
The creature won’t leave his side. The bird is the word: Steve Coogan in ‘The Penguin Lessons’ (Lionsgate) Yet Coogan doesn’t quite have the earnestness (and perhaps no actor would have ...