The next project?
Time Out Is there real tension behind your banter?
RB There’s no tension. There’s no tension.
SC There’s no tension at all. There isn’t any tension.
RB No tension. It’s just wrong love.
SC Just two emotionally repressed men…
RB Two men with issues. But very different issues…
SC …who can’t express their love for each other...
RB …and they kind of bang up against each other...
SC I think we should do a thing like Baddiel and Skinner.
RB What, ‘Unplanned’?
SC Yeah.
RB Okay.
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SC Shall we do a thing like that? There’s not that much work involved.
RB Well, that’s the beauty of it. But they have already done it,
that’s the only thing I would point out. But they haven’t done it on
the BBC! ‘What’s different about your show?’ ‘It’s on the BBC!’
SC And it’s not Baddiel and Skinner.
RB It would have to be Brydon and Coogan. Wouldn’t it?
SC [Unconvinced] Well, thereabouts…
RB Yeah, something like that.
SC Something like that.
RB Yeah, we could. They are very good at that, though.
SC Yeah, they are. But maybe we could do a double interview
show. It could be quite good, the two of us interviewing one guest. No
one’s done that before… Worth piloting?
RB Would I get an executive producer credit?
SC Well, I’ve just thought of the idea.
RB We’d have to do it as a co-production, I’m not going to do it entirely…
SC Well, I’ll give you… Of course, I will give you some sort of production credit.
RB Well, you can’t do it without me, so…
SC No, that’s true. That’s true, but it is my idea.
RB Don’t shoot yourself in the foot and cut off your nose to spite your face.
SC No, but I mean, there are…
RB I’m not saying no, I’m just saying obviously we’d have to have some ground rules.
SC Well, certainly a percentage could be negotiated, and some
production credit. Either an executive producer credit or a production
credit, but not both. You know, Jones the Film [Brydon’s production
company] or Rob Brydon maybe gets some sort of credit, I don’t know.
RB I don’t know. I don’t think it’s going to work.
SC I’ve gone off the idea. I’ve talked my way out of it.
RB Yeah. I’m quite busy, actually. Certainly until the middle of this month. I don’t think I could do anything…
‘A Cock and Bull Story’ is released on January
20. For the full transcript of this interview – including the delights
of working with Winterbottom, the burden of celebrity, the enigma of
Roger Moore and why Alan Partridge is like orange pulp – click here.
