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a h e p e r a o l , d i 2 1 t Profile Peter Capaldi t failed film option (they now live in Muswell Hill). The option was for a science-fiction Peter as Malcolm Tucker in script Peter had written called Moon Man the film In The Loop , based which, incidentally, had been his nickname on the TV series The Thick Of It . Tom Hollander is the at school, such was his fascination with the politician feeling his wrath then-current moon landings and love of science-fiction. O
Acting jobs kept coming, though, and in T O H P
2005 he was asked to audition for a K C O part in The Thick of It. The audition process T S
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was long and drawn-out and when Peter A L A / D
eventually met the show’s creator, Armando T L
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Iannucci, he was in a foul mood. Peter I T C E
thought he’d blown it, but Iannucci knew L L O C
he’d found his man, and the character of E R O T
foul-mouthed, manipulative Malcolm S E I V
Tucker was perfect for the times. O M
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The country had already endured eight O T
Peter Capaldi, right, with Burt Lancaster, centre, in Local Hero O years of political ‘spin’ under the Blair H P
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Government, but rather than basing Nancy died last year but it was a source landlady was a costume designer and one O T S
Tucker on Alistair Campbell, as was of much pride that when Peter visited her night, coming home drunk from the pub, Y M A L A
presumed, Capaldi’s models were the in hospital towards the end of her life he he found her chatting to the film director / 2 1
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hot-shot American film producers, would get the film star treatment and Bill Forsyth, who had just enjoyed great O T O H
“malevolent forces in Armani suits” as he whoops of instant recognition from the success with the film Gregory’s Girl. P
described them, that he’d briefly nursing staff. Forsyth was immediately taken with © rubbed shoulders with during his While at art school Peter became a fan Capaldi and cast him in his new film, A Portrait of Scotland, a wonderful They have a daughter, Cecily, mainly because he’s not had any formal flirtation with Hollywood. of punk rock, singing in a band called the Local Hero, opposite Hollywood legend documentary on the history of Scottish who recently graduated from university dramatic training, but he’d surely make a It was all a long way from the rarefied Dreamboys, but also started to consider Burt Lancaster. Roles in the best forgotten portrait painting. Then a certain Time and is now living in London training wonderful Hamlet or perhaps, at some environs of Glasgow School of Art, where becoming an actor. By happy accident his Ken Russell film Lair of the White Worm Lord came calling and it’s fair to say life to be a teacher. Although he’s enjoying his point, King Lear. Capaldi had graduated in 1980. He had has never been quite the same, although moment in the spotlight, Peter is all too As for Hollywood, or at least American grown up in a tenement block in the “People always greet you with a certain affection” Peter’s family do all they can to keep his aware that he won’t be playing the good television, it holds no interest for Peter. Springburn area of Glasgow, where his feet on the ground. Doctor forever. He says that although “I don’t want to be a guy who parents – an Italian-born father (with a young Hugh Grant) and as George Peter met wife Elaine, who is now Malcolm Tucker belongs to the past, he’d goes to work every day for nine and Irish-born mother – ran a Harrison in the TV movie John and Yoko: a BBC producer, in 1983 when both were love to play Jeremy Corbyn, or perhaps months of the year in a corner of Burbank,” Peter and wife Elaine tie café antdh e kicneo-tc riena 1m991 delivery A Love Story followed and he would also working for the same theatre company. Francis Bacon. He’s wary of Shakespeare, he said at the height of the Thick of It, when business. His childhood was turn up in in roles as varied as a Songs of there were suggestions he could follow happy, “very safe, full of Praise producer in The Vicar of Dibley, fellow English thespian Hugh Laurie to delights” and life was busy and and a transvestite in Prime Suspect 3. Hollywood. “I like doing a bit here and a bit noisy – several relatives lived in Peter has had more than his fair share there and strange things.” the same block –with The of playing oddballs and outsiders, For now, however, nine months of the Beatles on the radio and Doctor but it’s something he is perfectly year is taken up playing Doctor Who, and Who on the television to keep comfortable with. although that running up and down him amused. Peter was an “I like characters who are strange and corridors is already taking its toll on his instant fan of the travelling on the edge,” he told the Standard . knees (Peter had to have keyhole surgery Time Lord: “The show had “A lot of the people I play are excluded after his first series as the Doctor) he that quality of darkness that you from the mainstream and I think that’s wouldn’t have it any other way. O T O
find in a Grimm’s fairy tale: H because of the way I look.” The forthcoming series will be his third P
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this strange creature of a man C Malcolm Tucker was another outsider, in the role and, despite rumours that have O T O S T
O who takes you on all these Y who desperately wanted to be an insider, swirled around since show-runner Steven H M P A
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adventures, but who always A and, ironically, Peter’s success in the role Moffatt announced his departure, it C / X O I T P S R keeps you safe.” It became a created new opportunities. seems Peter will be staying in the Tardis Y O R M R A I
tradition that Peter’s mum, He directed several episodes of the L for the time being at least. M A / / R E V O Nancy, would buy him a Bafta-winning sit-com Getting On, I “I love being Doctor Who,” he said R H R I C R M
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Doctor Who annual every year, appeared in The Fifth Estate, the film earlier this year, “so I will be around as Y F T I A
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something that would R based on the Wikileaks saga, and revisited long as it’s right to be around.” Daleks and T
continue into adulthood. © his art school days, writing and presenting Peter, right, with Dan Stevens in The Fifth Estate Cybermen, you have been warned.
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