Armando Iannucci

Because if you use a lot of energy, it will just eat you up.

So you get a lot of this kind of, well, we can't film until they're out of the building, but they don't get out of the building until 6pm, but that only gives us an hour or so.

Okay, right, so what we'll do is we'll film the other thing that's nearby, we'll move the location to there so that we're nearby, and then when it's time, that will take us to 6pm, so you're doing a lot of the

fast kind of whatever's and uh i think that was my downfall so you took that into a lot of kind of uh right well clearly this is all about just getting this task done as as soon as possible and then we can all go home right um you know all the cameras as well yeah right close up hit you know

My wife also says when I've been directing, there's about two weeks afterwards where I'm still in director's mode.

And I go, right, who should we go?

Should we go for a walk?

Right, you two.

We're going to start there.

Yes, but that was day one.

And I think, you know, having phoned my bedroom in the Mays Hotel, I think day two I was much more in the moment.

And I actually enjoyed... I enjoyed it.

I had a great time, actually.

I really enjoyed it.

What was very funny was...

Kamau dropping his in with such relief and then just falling out again.

I think that's that American thing of, you know, why be second?

Yeah.

come first i remember when we were researching for vape and then president vice president biden's chief of staff saying yeah the thing about the office of vice president is you're fundamentally going around america with a big badge saying number two yeah yeah and number two doesn't get you anything no in america you know

So I'm sure there was an element of the US side of him was thinking, but I need the points.