Yahoo News Steve Coogan admits there's now 'complete overlap' with him and Alan Partridge
The actor said he is starting to become his comedy character in real life
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Steve Coogan has admitted he has started to become his comedy character Alan Partridge in real life.
The actor and comedian has been playing the awkward media personality for over 30 years. And he confessed that his real self and inept Alan are starting to blend into one person.
Opening up on The One Show, Coogan said he expected to have completely morphed into the character by next year.
What, how and why?
He opened up as the BBC show's host Alex Jones quizzed him about the hilarious character, asking: "How much of Alan is in Steve?"
"As I have grown older Alan and I have become closer and closer and closer in who we are, so I think there is almost a complete overlap in the Venn diagram," he admitted. "By about this time next year I will have completely become Alan."
Coogan also told how he recently went to shoot scenes as Alan, and discovered that the top he was meant to wear was the same as the one of his own he had on.
"The other day on set, because we are halfway through filming the new BBC series, I showed up on set in my shirt," he said, as a picture of the star in the navy and white shirt flashed up on screen. "And my shirt that they had for me to put on as Alan was the same shirt.
"And I thought, I really have, that's it! I think I took mine off and put the other one on, even though they were identical, just for psychological reasons."
"I am just becoming Alan Partridge," added the star.
He went on: "When we are writing with the other writers, I try to say stuff as Alan that's funny and then I just say stuff as myself and they just write that down as well!"
What else did Steve Coogan say on The One Show?
Coogan also discussed the latest Alan Partridge book, Big Beacon. He said: "For those who follow him closely, and there are a few diehard, strange people out there who do, he was fired from the BBC, in the fiction. I have not been fired by the BBC - yet!
"He has to go and find a project and sort of reinvent himself and he happens upon the idea of renovating a lighthouse."
