‘I never thought I would ever have a film like this where I get to be in period Victorian costume’: Dev Patel talks about his upcoming film ‘The Personal History of David Copperfield’, where he leads a racially diverse cast. More here:
LONDON - British satirist Armando Iannucci swaps political comedies for Charles Dickens in “The Personal History of David Copperfield,” a comedy-drama adaptation of the literary classic in which Dev Patel leads a racially diverse cast in the Victorian-era movie.
While his early years are filled with love, all changes when his mother remarries the brutal Mr Murdstone and the young Copperfield is sent to work in a London factory. “It felt very modern,” he said. “It also speaks of these sort of contemporary issues and I just want to get that life and that humour and approach it maybe as if there were no rules as to how you make a costume drama.”
“I wanted ... the audience feel that the people they’re watching up there are in their present day,” Iannucci said. “I had no plan B. Dev was instantly the person I thought of,” Iannucci said, later adding: “I just wanted to choose the best people who were most suited for the part, I didn’t want to feel any kind of historical restrictions.”“I was that guy that had totally missed this glorious piece of literature in my childhood,” he said. “I thought he was the illusionist when I went to the meeting ... obviously that changed very quickly.
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