you're a huge huge star in in the UK and
to the point where I you know I don't
know how could someone like you even go
outside it's not that I mean a case now
I got recognized I uh it's it's normally
if I'm in close-quarter combat as has
happened to me once I was H I was in
like a burger bar in a burger bar in
Manchester yeah yeah I like to hang out
in those places right it's kind of you
meet interesting people right and I was
in there and this guy I got involved a
kind of a scuffle well yeah a fight
right I saw a friend of mine some of
these guys jumped on this friend of mine
and I pulled this guy off and I was on
the floor on top of him and and we were
struggling and rolling around on the
floor and someone pulled us apart
there's the hiatus and he stopped in the
middle of the fight and went hey are you
Steve Coogan and they went yeah anyway
hey I've got all your DVDs and I said oh
right so anyway pleased to meet you like
this and I just been like banging his
head on it's great and I said yes can
you sign my autograph and I was like
yeah so what about the perfect time to
hit him to is like yeah yeah yeah
[Applause]
you wouldn't see that coming but you
know now when you first hit it big I
read once that you you wanted to treat
yourself you want a little you went a
little nuts when you first had your big
success in England you went out and you
bought a red Ferrari is that true yeah
it's not you know the one magnum p.i
drove yeah yeah one of those and I
bought the Hawaiian shirt to go in its
face you know people the Ferrari drivers
get a lot of stick you know because it's
so difficult not to be you got stopped
by the police for speeding under yeah
guys how hard it is not to go quickly on
one of those cars and right people don't
you know people just have more sympathy
for Ferrari driving I think they're yeah
I think it's terrible the way Ferrari
drivers are treated yeah they're treated
horribly awful yeah yeah first gear is
what 80 miles an hour just to get out of
the parking lot now this project that
you're you're here to promote this is
very interesting a tristram shandy
and in this it's a movie about you and
you're playing yourself making a movie
yeah
and so we we see a lot of scenes where
you are preparing to make them
viii or your your your offset making the
movie there's actually a scene that I
really love where you're with your
co-star in the film and you start both
doing dueling Pacino's Al Pacino
impressions because you're very
competitive with each other yeah I
wouldn't call in my co-star I'd say as a
supporting actor okay but no yeah we did
sort of Julianne Pacino's and in fact is
Al Pacino impression when we were doing
on the set that's that's in the film
it's actually it's better than mine and
I didn't like it me I actually said to
the directors at there said does that
have to be in the film and you have that
power if anything if he does anything a
little better you can have it cut out of
it I try you know whatever possible
obviously which Pacino do you specialize
in is it earlier those two does this
kind of there's a Pacino that that took
place in The Godfather years ago when he
was a younger man right let me speak
like you no disrespect the family right
and then now sounds a lot all done there
[Laughter]
shouting yeah released expected yeah