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Where do you live now?
We’re in London at the moment. I
had an odd couple of months where I
went to New York for two months to
do a job which was cancelled two days
before we were due to start filming,
and then went to London where the
job got cancelled because they lost
their money. So I had geared myself
up for these two roles and now they’re
gone. It’s very frustrating. You turn
down other jobs so you are ready. But
on the positive side, I’ve been able to
spend some time with our baby, which
has been great. I’m kind of glad that
I’ve got so much time with him, so
that’s been great. And I go back to Los
Angeles in October for a part in a film
directed by Christopher Guest called
Mascots, which will be fun. It’s about
the sports mascots world where I play
a character called Tommy Fist, which is
going to be fun.
So do you live in both countries?
We kind of flit between London and
LA, we’re back and forth between the
two. My wife has a business so we
kind of come over to London and do
that for a bit and so yes, we’ve been
travelling around a bit. But our son has
been very portable so far – now he is
starting to crawl it’s going to be trickier,
so we will probably just get a new baby
[laughs]. I feel like we’ve got two or
three years when we can travel around
a bit more and then we’ll have to say,
“OK, now we’ll live here”. It’s kind of
been working out so far. And I imagine
as time goes on I’ll write a lot more.
I’m writing a feature for next year. I
can’t really talk about it at this point,
it’s an animation thing, but it should be
good.
Do you still keep in touch with the
cast from The IT Crowd?
You know, Richard
Ayaode has a travel
show [Travel Man]
and I’m going to do it
next week. We’re going
to Vienna. I don’t know why we’re
going there, it’s not my choice but I’m
excited. Why not? I said ‘I can’t go
too far away...’ So we’re going to do
two days in Vienna. I love Richard. I
see him a good bit.
The IT Crowd was such a well-
loved show.Were they happy days
for you?
It was. It was a live show and it
was stressful at times so there was
plenty of drama, but overall it was
brilliant, and Graham [Linehan] is the
best comedy writer and Katherine
[Parkinson], I’d been to college with.
So we all had good relationships.