STAN & OLLIE & STEVE

Steve Coogan on bringing Laurel and Hardy back to the big screen

I FELT LIKE I was as well qualified as anyone to take on the role,” award-winning British actor and writer Steve Coogan says of playing comedy great Stan Laurel opposite John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy in the touching new biopic Stan & Ollie. In fact, Coogan counts the duo’s films among the “landscape of comedy” that caught his attention as a child, influencing his comedic vocation. And, of course, there’s the 53-year-old’s uncanny resemblance to Stan Laurel. Coogan recently discussed the film with Zoomer. MIKE CRISOLAGO: What elements of Stan Laurel’s life could you relate to as a performer? STEVE COOGAN: He was a comic writer and performer – that’s what I’ve done for most of my career. And he was from the north of England [like Coogan, and] had ambition…

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Zoomer (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2019

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