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Watch the video. Recently viewed Please enable browser cookies to use this feature. Learn more. It just felt like the absolute perfect way to end it really. Not all the writers were on — we had a rota — so some of the writers would be in each day, but I was in and I remember it was like watching a play because it felt like the whole band were back together and everyone got an amazing solo in that episode.
It was so much fun to watch. I remember Armando, although we were supposed to be kept separate, Arm came into my dressing room with Peter and the three of us stood and had a chat before I went and did my thing — I think because Armando was aware that this was going to be the end and it would be the last time we'd all be there together.
So he bent the rules slightly for that. I think we watched the last one or the last two. You felt like the guts had been ripped out of the BBC and you were in this kind of ghost building.
It was a bit weird. I would sometimes get various writers just to write sentences within the speech so it was all slightly disconnected. I'd tell everyone to write the speech and then I'd go through it and pull one line out of one person's, one line out of another's, so it was full of non sequiturs.
I wanted to try and capture that and I thought the best way to do that is to actually randomise the scripts, as it were. I think, actually, in the version that we used in the cut, there's an element also of Peter slightly improvising. Once you've done it a few times, he then started playing about with it and adding to it, and that then injected that element of it becoming personal, but also slightly hesitant, as he genuinely is thinking of the next thing to say, and not feeling like it's just a learn-by-rote speech.
He's blaming everyone. Peter was just very good at asking us to stretch him and he was a brilliant, brilliant actor. I think that was quite instrumental in just trying to find different tones and areas we could take Malcolm into. One of the things I think that makes him a bit of a paradox is that he's obviously a monster, but I always had quite a lot of respect for him because he sort of knew what he was and he was very good at it, so you couldn't change him massively.
We tried to do what we could within that remit. He was like the anti-Fonz, I guess. I think he'll be in a little house on the coast somewhere and maybe he's married Sam — I think they had a very close relationship. He'd be out of the public eye; he would have had enough of it. He was at the height of his powers a few years ago. I don't think he would want to be a lesser version of himself in the public eye, so, yeah, taken the dollar from some corporate institutions to do some PR for them and then bought himself a house, having a lovely time by the sea.
So he had a kind of past that he'd kind of managed to get through. I know he would be in these chunky-knit jumpers; he'd be doing a podcast, I'm sure. I don't think he'd be one of these people who would take contracts to kind of advise the government of Kazakhstan. I think he tells himself there's something a little bit nobler in him. Not long after Damian McBride had to leave government he ended up running a charity — I think a Catholic aid charity — and I could sort of see Malcolm doing something similar, not a religious charity, maybe a homeless charity, but then pissing everyone off.
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