It’s interesting coming out with some of the writers from the U.K. I think the big difference is I think the resources, obviously. So, creatively, I find it surprisingly similar to what I’m used to. Once we’ve agreed what the is, what the tone is, they’ve been very trusting and supportive and just left me to get on with it. But the last thing we’re doing to do is tell you to do anything differently from how you normally work because otherwise what is the point of asking you to do something?” So, I’ve been very much left alone.
They said to me, “Look, we like what you’re doing. It goes through a very structured process. At HBO, it’s very different from the network method of every executive involved in every creative decision. At the BBC I’m used to having an awful lot of creative freedom they discuss the concept but I tend to get left alone and on with it. Iannucci: Well, it’s interesting, but the first thing that shocked me was how similar it felt to doing a show with the BBC. We’re just doing the penultimate episode of Veep at the moment in Baltimore.įilmmaker: What has it like been moving from making a BBC show to now working for HBO? Though the show’s setting and cast (which includes Arrested Development veteran Tony Hale and Upright Citizens Brigade co-founder Matt Walsh) are decidedly American, Iannucci has not only kept some of his British satirical sensibility but also many of his familiar behind-the-scenes collaborators, including Morris and fellow In the Loop Oscar nominees Simon Blackwell and Tony Roche.įilmmaker spoke with Iannucci about the challenges of making the first season of Veep (out today on DVD and Blu-ray), his resistance to working on network shows and his plans to return to directing for films. The HBO show centers on Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus), the Vice President of the United States, and her staff and sees Iannucci continuing to mine the political sphere for all its rich comic potential. as he did for those of Westminster - led directly to creating and executive producing Veep.
The success of In the Loop - which proved Iannucci had just as much of an ear for the idiocies of Washington, D.C. political relations in the buildup to the Iraq War that not only became a major commercial hit but also earned Iannucci an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay. That show then spawned a big-screen spin-off, In the Loop, a riotously funny dissection of U.S/U.K. Recently, though, writer/director/producer Iannucci has become one of the foremost political satirists, starting with the BBC’s astute, dry Parliamentary mockumentary The Thick of It. Armando Iannucci is a veteran of British comedy who came through the ranks with such luminaries as Steve Coogan and Chris Morris, collaborating with them both on the seminal mock news show The Day Today and with Coogan alone on a number of shows featuring Alan Partridge.
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