Peter Capaldi, Tells Us Which Of His Classic Characters Would Be Made Into ‘Mincemeat’ By His 'Criminal Record' Adversary

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Actor Peter Capaldi is known far and wide thanks to his versatile talents. Part of such notoriety comes from the man’s ability to wield a short temper and foul language with the touch of a champ thanks to his time on Armando Iannucci’s dark comedy series The Thick of It. However, when discussing his series Criminal Record, which debuted on the 2024 TV schedule, Capaldi firmly believes that his Apple TV+ character DCI Daniel Hegarty could easily make mincemeat out of his classic character from that dark comedy.   None other than his previous political operative, the ever memorable Malcolm Tucker, is on the hypothetical hit list in this discussion. That knowledge came from when I sat down for the press day for this new series, which sees Peter also acting as an executive producer alongside co-star Cush Jumbo.

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00:00Peter, what are your famous role? Most famous roles is obviously Malcolm Tucker from The Thick

00:03of It. And there's a little bit of that energy with DCI Haggerty, not too much, but like,

00:09especially in episode two, I noticed a little bit of the mannerisms coming out.

00:13Was it ever a concern for you when approaching this performance? And was there ever a moment

00:17that you felt close to maybe tipping into familiar territory? Well, I've got the same face

00:23as Malcolm Tucker. And I've got the same hair. And I've still got it. So one is always going

00:29to be haunted by that. Not really, no. I mean, I think, actually, I think Haggerty would make

00:39mincemeat of Malcolm Tucker, to be honest. I think Malcolm's a lot of bluster and he's very

00:46loud and appears to be very angry, but I think Haggerty would take him to pieces. But Haggerty

00:52does have some of Malcolm's energy bubbling away there, which you can tap into when he needs.

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