Actor Peter Capaldi and Director Armando Iannucci Have a Lot in Common - Now They've Joined Forces to Take the Thick of It to America

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ARMANDO Iannucci, the director, has a pastry in his mouth. Peter Capaldi, the actor, has a crumb on his cheek, and is buttering another croissant. Both men have heavy coats over the backs of their chairs in a bland room in Glasgow that feels like the casting office for a reality TV show. From the side, when they face each other, there is a hint of Alas Smith And Jones. We are just a few miles from Keppochhill Road in Springburn where the two men grew up together.

"No, that was just our parents, " says Iannucci. "They knew each other, so when I told my mum a few years ago that I was working with Peter, she said, 'Ohhh, wee Peter', because she remembered him as a baby."

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Actor Peter Capaldi and Director Armando Iannucci Have a Lot in Common - Now They've Joined Forces to Take the Thick of It to America

"I'm still surprised my mother never mentioned it, " says Capaldi, the older of the two by six years. "I would see Armando on the screen and say, 'Oh no, there's that guy on the telly again'."

"As you were throwing a shoe at it?"

"Exactly. But she always says now that you are Armando's double."

"My father was called Armando too, " explains Iannucci.

"There was a period when they all hung out together, " says Capaldi. "Then they all went their separate ways."

The men didn't meet until 2005, when Capaldi was...

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