OF HOMELESSNESS AND HARDSHIP...
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moment like the homelessness and the richness and poverty side by side but the really modern themes like status anxiety, the imposter syndrome of David, his dyslexia, and it’s got the very first portrayal in English literature, I think, of mental illness in the form of Mr Dick, portrayed really honestly and beautifully.
“I want people to come out feeling good about themselves but also about the people they care for and the community relationships they have.
“The last three or four years have been so stormy and shouty and negative that I wanted to make something that felt bright and sunny.
“I wanted it to look beautiful
Dev Patel plays David the captain of an interplanetary ary cruiseliner lost in space.
After the success of tackling UK politics in The Day Today with Chris ris Morris and then with Peter Capaldii in The Thick of It and US affairs with Julia lia Louis-Dreyfus in HBO show Veep, he’s delighted now not to be telling stories ies about the corridors of power, especially ally in an age when government leaders ers prove beyond satire.
He said: “More power to people like ike John Oliver who forensically analyse yse the day-to-day stuff but that requires res an energy and a time at your disposal sal that my late- 50s self doesn’t have.e. I much prefer the longer form of it. That’s at’s not to say that I won’t do something ng topical in the future, you never know. ow.
“I just felt after 10 years of it with Veep and The Thick of It, it was time to move on.”
And fate was kind to him, bowing out of his US show Veep shortly before the arrival of Trump into the political world.
Armando added: “I was mightily relieved to not have to deal with that.
“It’s so beyond any conventional set of rules – and those rules , whatever are lef t of them, keep changing every day – that it’s impossible to pin down.”