Armando Iannucci on His Breakthrough Moment

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Beginnings: The Breakthrough Moment

Armando Iannucci, Writer

�I thought, I think I know what I’m doing.�

I’ve been writing for about 25 years, and the first ten or 15 years I was always convinced it’s going to be the worst thing ever made. And that someone will come up to me, usually the person who commissioned it, and say, �What the heck are you doing? This is our money. Do you understand? Go away.� The moment I finally became confident, I suppose, was when we were doing The Thick of It, the U.K. political show, which was very much thrown together at the last minute�deliberately so, lots of improvising, writing it very last-minute. And it just happened to come together really well. I thought, I think I know what I’m doing. Or maybe I’m just a bit older and feel like I’ve got away with it so long now, that in the end, probably, I don’t think anyone will come up to me and say, What the hell are you doing?


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