Four Corners Distribution Kaasstraat 4 2000 Antwerpen t. 03 – 231 0931 www.abc-distribution.be presenteert / présente release: 17/09/2014 Persmappen en beeldmateriaal van al onze actuele titels kan u downloaden van onze site: Vous pouvez télécharger les dossiers de presse et les images de nos films sur: www.abc-distribution.be 2 THE TRIP TO ITALY – synopsis nl + fr Rob Brydon en Steve Coogan gaan wederom op reis. Ditmaal gaan ze naar Italië om in de voetsporen te treden van beroemde Engelse dichters. Ondertussen maken ze elkaar het leven zuur met treffende imitaties van beroemdheden. Oorspronkelijk was The Trip to Italy is een Britse tv-serie uitgezonden in april 2014 op BBC Two en bedoeld als vervolg op de serie en de film The Trip (2010), waarin twee vrienden een rondreis maken langs de romantische restaurants op het Engels platteland nadat de vriendin van een van hen hem verliet. 105min – UK – dialogen in Engels & Italiaans Rob Brydon et Steve Coogan repartent en tournée. Cette fois, ils vont à l'Italie pour un road trip culinaire en Italie sur les traces des poètes romantiques. Pendant ce temps, ils se rendent la vie difficile avec des imitations frappantes de célébrités. A l'origine, The Trip To Italy est une série télévisée britannique diffusée en avril 2014 sur la BBC Two et présentée comme la continuité de la série et du film The Trip (2010), qui racontait l'histoire de deux amis exécutant un tour des restaurants romantiques dans la campagne anglaise après que la petite amie de l'un d'eux soit partie. 105min – UK – dialogues en anglais & italien 3 THE TRIP TO ITALY – cast Steve ....................................................................................Steve Coogan Rob .......................................................................................Rob Brydon Joe ........................................................................................Timothy Leach Lucy ......................................................................................Rosie Fellner Sally ......................................................................................Rebecca Johnson Yolanda ................................................................................Marta Barrio Emma ...................................................................................Claire Keelan THE TRIP TO ITALY – crew regie / réalisation .................................................................Michael Winterbottom scenario / scénario ..............................................................Michael Winterbottom productie / production .........................................................Melissa Parmenter coproductie / coproducteur .................................................Josh Hyams afgevaardigd producent / producteur délégué....................Andrew Eaton uitvoerend producent / producteur exécutif .......................Stefano Negri associate producent / producteur associé ...........................Giulia Salvadori cinematografie / cinématographie.......................................James Clarke montage................................................................................Robbie Gibbon ..............................................................................................Mags Arnold ..............................................................................................Paul Monaghan ..............................................................................................Marc Richardson 1er assistant réalisateur .......................................................Zoe Liang kostuums / costumes ...........................................................Lisa Shanley 4 THE TRIP TO ITALY – about the film Michael Winterbottom’s largely improvised 2010 film, The Trip, took comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon—or semifictionalized versions thereof—on a restaurant tour around northern England. In this witty and incisive follow-up, Winterbottom reunites the pair for a new culinary road trip, retracing the steps of the Romantic poets’ grand tour of Italy and indulging in some sparkling banter and impersonation-offs. Rewhetting our palates from the earlier film, the characters enjoy mouthwatering meals in gorgeous settings from Liguria to Capri while riffing on subjects as varied as Batman’s vocal register, the artistic merits of “Jagged Little Pill,” and, of course, the virtue of sequels. Winterbottom trains his camera to capture the idyllic Italian landscape and the gastronomic treasures being prepared and consumed while keeping the film centered on the crackling chemistry between the two leads. The Trip to Italy effortlessly melds the brilliant comic interplay between Coogan and Brydon into quieter moments of self-reflection, letting audiences into their insightful ruminations on the nuances of friendship and the juggling of family and career. The result is a biting portrait of modern-day masculinity. 5 THE TRIP TO ITALY – Michael Winterbottom Michael Winterbottom werd geboren in Lancashire, aanvankelijk ging hij literatuur studeren. Nadat hij zijn diploma behaalde in Oxford, richtte hij zich op film en ging hij dat studeren in Bristol en Londen. Al van jongs af aan was hij een groot liefhebber van films, hij begon zijn tv-carrière als monteur en later als regisseur van televisiedocumentaires en -drama's. Zijn documentaire over Ingmar Bergman (Ingmar Bergman: The Magic Lantern) werd in 1988 al opgemerkt door de critici, maar door het grote succes van het tv-drama Family zet hij in 1994 samen met Andrew Eaton de stap om een eigen productiebedrijf op te starten, Revolution Films. Family werd geschreven door Roddy Doyle en vertelt het verhaal van een gezin vanuit het oogpunt van een van haar leden. Het drama sleepte wereldwijd verschillende prijzen in de wacht. Het volgende jaar, regisseerde Winterbottom zijn eerste langspeelfilm en dit met een klein budget, Butterfly Kiss, een gewelddadige en wanhopige vrouwen-roadmovie, "Thelma en Louise op speed” zoals actrice Saskia Reeves hem beschreef. Winterbottom bevetsigt zijn liefde voor hartstochtelijk drama en verfilmt in 1996 zijn favoriete roman, Jude, nara het boek van Thomas Hardy, met een schitterende Kate Winslet in de hoofdrol. De film wordt vertoond tijdens de Quinzaine des Realisateurs in Cannes, wordt bekroond in Madrid en sleepte de Michael Powell Award voor Beste Britse Film in de wacht op het Edinburgh Film Festival én de Gouden Hitchcock op het Dinard Film Festival. Datzelfde jaar, krijgt het project Go Now in opdracht van de BBC snel vorm: in vier maanden tijd produceert zijn productiefirma dit televisiedrama over de reis van een jonge man die lijdt aan multiple sclerose naar een scenario van Jimmy McGovern en Paul Powell. Acteur Robert Carlyle ontvangt de award voor Beste Acteur tijdens de Royal Television Society Awards en de film won de Best Screenplay Award. De workaholic Winterbottom is niet alleen uitvoerend producent van Resurrection Man van Marc Evans in 1997, maar regisseert dat jaar ook drie films tegelijkertijd Winterbottom; I Want You (1998), With or Without You (1999) met Yvan Attal en Wonderland (1999), een intiem portret van een Londense familie. Met zijn steeds groeiende precisie en zijn filmische durf die hij vertaald in zijn montagekeuze, weet hij in Cannes te overtuigen, Wonderland is geselecteerd voor de competitie in 1999. Hierna wijzigt de productieve duizendpoot zijn aanpak met de oorlogsfilm Welcome to Sarajevo en de western Redemption, gedragen door de acteerprestaties van Peter Mullan en Milla Jovovich: een stijloefening waarin de veelgeprezen filmmaker de geheimen van de verovering van het Amerikaanse Westen onthult. Volgen in snel tempo een duik in de vroege new wave-periode met 24 Hour Party (2001), een sci-fi film Code 46 (2003) en het erg rock ’n roll 9 songs (2004). Zulke productiviteit kan niet lang zonder beloning blijven, en dus wint de Britse filmmaker in 2003 de Gouden Beer op het Filmfestival van Berlijn voor zijn film In This World, een drama over de reis van twee jonge Pakistanen die willen emigreren naar Groot-Brittannië. In 2004 keert hij terug naar het lichtere werk met Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story, een mengeling van de adaptatie van de onverfilmbare novel van Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman en het verhaal van de opnames van de gelijknamige 6 film met acteur Steve Coogan in de hoofdrol. Twee jaar later, stelt hij tijdens de 56ste Berlinale zijn The Road to Guantanamo voor, half documentaire, half fictie gebaseerd op het waargebeurde verhaal van drie Britse jongeren van Pakistaanse afkomst. Hij krijgt de Zilveren Beer voor Beste Regisseur. In 2007, keert hij nog eens terug naar het post-11 september-genre met A Mighty Heart, over de ontvoering en moord op een journalist door Pakistaanse militanten. Angelina Jolie neemt de rol van echtgenote Marianne Pearl voor haar rekening. De film wordt op het 60ste Filmfestival van Cannes vertoond buiten competitie. Het eclectische karakter van Michael Winterbottom dient niet verder bewezen te worden: na The Shock Doctrine, een docu die het “rampkapitalisme” onderzoekt, koos hij voor een thriller, Genova, met in de hoofdrol Colin Firth als een rouwende weduwnaar die beslist om opnieuw te beginnen met zijn dochters. Daarna trekt Michael Winterbottom de Amerikaanse woestijn in met Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Bill Pullman en Jessica Alba voor de thriller The Killer Inside Me, een adaptatie van de roman van Jim Thompson, en keert hij vervolgens terug naar het Engelse platteland met Steve Coogan voor de film - en de serie The Trip (2010). Altijd op zoek naar verschillende exotische projecten, weet Winterbottom het mooie gezicht van Freida Pinto met de mooie Indiase landschappen te combineren in het romantische Trishna, een film gedragen door de betoverende muziek van Amit Trivedi. Hij werkt daarna voor de vierde keer samen met Steve Coogan voor The Look of Love (2013), een mix van drama en komedie. Coogan vertolkt de rol van Paul Raymond, de befaamde Britse zakenman, berucht om zijn diverse escapades, zijn rijkdom en vooral zijn sexclub, "Raymond Revue Bar". Zit er nog aan te komen The Face of an Angel met in de hoofdrollen Kate Beckinsale en Daniel Brühl. Né dans le Lancashire, Michael Winterbottom se dirige dans un premier temps vers des études de Lettres. Après une licence obtenue à Oxford, il se tourne vers le cinéma, qu'il étudie à Bristol et à Londres. Féru de films depuis son plus jeune âge, le jeune homme débute sa carrière à la télévision comme monteur, puis comme réalisateur de documentaires et de téléfilms. Si son documentaire sur Ingmar Bergman (Ingmar Bergman : The Magic Lantern) est très remarqué en 1988, c'est le succès du téléfilm Family qui le pousse à fonder avec Andrew Eaton sa propre société de production, Revolution Films, en 1994. Ecrit par Roddy Doyle, ce feuilleton qui expose la vie d'une famille selon le point de vue d'un de ses membres, est couronné par de nombreux prix dans des festivals de cinéma et de télévision du monde entier. 7 L'année suivante, Winterbottom réalise son premier long-métrage au budget peu coûteux, Butterfly Kiss, un road-movie au féminin, violent et désespéré, qualifié par son interprète Saskia Reeves de "Thelma et Louise sous acide". Confirmant son intérêt pour les drames passionnels, le cinéaste porte à l'écran son roman préféré en 1996 : Jude adapté de Thomas Hardy, qui donne la vedette à Kate Winslet. Présenté à la Quinzaine des Réalisateurs à Cannes, le film est récompensé à Madrid et reçoit le Michael Powell Award du meilleur film britannique au Festival du Film d'Edimbourg ainsi que le Hitchcock d'or au Festival de Dinard. La même année, le projet de Go now produit par sa maison de production pour la BBC se concrétise rapidement : en quatre mois, cette comédie dramatique retraçant le parcours d'un jeune homme atteint de sclérose en plaque, d'après un scénario de Jimmy McGovern et Paul Powell, est achevée. L'acteur Robert Carlyle reçoit le prix du Meilleur Acteur aux Royal Television Society Awards tandis que le film obtient celui du Meilleur Scénario. Producteur exécutif de Resurrection man de Marc Evans en 1997, Winterbottom est un boulimique de travail qui met parallèlement en scène trois films en l'espace d'un an, la comédie dramatique I Want You (1998), With or Without You (1999) avec Yvan Attal et Wonderland (1999), portrait intimiste d'une famille londonienne. Allant vers une précision de plus en plus grande et multipliant les audaces filmiques avec son choix du montage accéléré, le cinéaste séduit Cannes avec ce dernier, en 1999. Par la suite, on doit à ce prolifique touche-à-tout un changement de registre avec le film de guerre Welcome to Sarajevo et le western Rédemption, porté par la présence de Peter Mullan et Milla Jovovich : un exercice de style très remarqué dans lequel le cinéaste dévoile les secrets de la conquête de l'Ouest américain. S'ensuivent une plongée dans les années new wave avec 24 hour party people en 2001, un thriller de science-fiction inédit en France Code 46 en 2003 et le torride et très rock'n'roll 9 songs, censuré en France en 2004. Une telle activité ne pouvant rester longtemps sans récompense, le cinéaste britannique remporte en 2003 l'Ours d'or au Festival de Berlin pour In this world, drame suivant le périple de deux jeunes pakistanais voulant émigrer en Grande-Bretagne. En 2004, il retourne vers un registre plus léger et déjanté avec son Tournage dans un jardin anglais, mélange d'adaptation du chef-d’œuvre de la littérature anglaise, La vie invraisemblable de Tristram Shandy, et de l'histoire du tournage du film du même nom, pour lequel il retrouve l'acteur Steve Coogan. Deux ans plus tard, il présente à la 56ème Berlinale The Road to Guantanamo, un drame mi-documentaire, mi-fiction basé sur l'histoire vraie de jeunes britanniques d'origine pakistanaise, pour lequel il repart avec l'Ours d'Argent du meilleur réalisateur. Enfin en 2007, il revient sur l'après 11 septembre en adaptant les mémoires de Mariane Pearl dans Un cœur invaincu, qui relate l'enlèvement et le meurtre de son mari journaliste par des activistes pakistanais. Avec Angelina Jolie dans le rôle de Marianne, le film est en sélection officielle hors compétition au 60e Festival de Cannes. 8 Balayant tous les genres, l'éclectisme de Michael Winterbottom n'est plus à prouver : après La Stratégie du choc, enquête sur le désastre du capitalisme, il opte pour un thriller horrifique, Un été italien, mettant en scène Colin Firth dans le rôle d'un veuf éploré décidant de repartir à zéro avec ses filles. Par la suite, Michael Winterbottom part en plein désert américain avec Casey Affleck, Kate Hudson, Bill Pullman et Jessica Alba pour le thriller The Killer Inside Me, adapté du roman de Jim Thompson, et retourne filmer son collègue Steve Coogan en pleine campagne anglaise dans le film - et la série - The Trip (2010). Toujours en quête de projets variés et exotiques, il part allier, l'année suivante, le joli minois de Freida Pinto aux magnifiques paysages indiens pour la romance Trishna, film évoluant au gré de la musique envoûtante d'Amit Trivedi. Mélange de drame et de comédie, A very Englishman (2013) marque sa 4ème collaboration avec Steve Coogan, ici dans le rôle de Paul Raymond, célèbre personnalité anglaise connue pour ses diverses frasques, sa richesse et surtout son club, le "Raymond Revue Bar". Au moment il est en train de faire The Face of an Angel avec Kate Beckinsale et Daniel Brühl. 9 THE TRIP TO ITALY – interview with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon eat again and take The Trip to Italy The gastronomic TV comedy The Trip is returning. We join its two stars during filming in Italy and find their relationship has blossomed – with the help of some more fine dining. Laura Barton The Observer, Saturday 18 January 2014 It is springtime in Italy. A blur of soft rain, wild fennel, wisteria, artichokes. In Camogli, a fishing village on the Italian Riviera, the late afternoon sun has drawn the people outside: early tourists peruse the gelaterias, a small dog chases seagulls along the beach, and on a hotel terrace Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon stand looking out over the blue waters of the Golfo Paradiso. Both wear a British approximation of a Riviera look – chinos, light blazers, inoffensive shirts and soft shoes, and are in deep discussion about how best to seduce young Italian women. "Come back to my house and have a stand-up bath," Coogan says, in an exaggerated Italian accent. "Then we will have sex." Brydon stares out across the water. "I'd just ask what type of breakfast cereal they like," he says. The pair are here in Italy to film the second instalment of The Trip, the BBC series directed by Michael Winterbottom that despite its unusual format – a kind of unstructured, unscripted circumnavigation of a comedy show – proved to be hugely successful with audiences and critics. Last year the writer and director Richard Curtis named it one of the greatest television programmes of all time. The premise of season one was that Coogan had been commissioned by the Observer to set out on a gastronomic tour of the north of England, from the Inn at Whitewell in the Trough of Bowland to the Yorke Arms in the Yorkshire Dales. For complicated reasons involving the breakdown of his relationship, he ends up inviting Brydon to join him. 10 It was about the food, of course – the preparation and presentation of each dish was lovingly shot. But it was also about many other things besides. Brydon and Coogan played fictionalised versions of themselves, and along the way there were hand-dived scallops, onenight stands, sticky toffee puddings, Michael Caine impersonations, much bickering, pork belly and quoting of Romantic poets. In among it all were touching ruminations on fame, success, and what it means to be male and in midlife. Season two, The Trip to Italy, presents a similar, if sunnier, scenario: a food tour from Liguria to Capri, via Rome and Pompeii and Ravello, again on behalf of the Observer. This time, though, there has been a shift in the pair's relationship: where the first series chose Coogan as its focus, this time it is Brydon who's reviewing the restaurants and finds his life in flux – his career in ascendance, his marriage at sea. Some while later, I spot them together in the hotel bar. The cameras are no longer rolling, yet the conversation could easily have been plucked from any episode of The Trip. Brydon is eating a Lion Bar; Coogan is inspecting the interior decor. "Look at this," he tells Brydon. "It's curved glass. Very expensive. And you know the thing is, there's no need for it." Brydon looks up and frowns. He has been busy scrolling through his iPhone, hunting for a Rod Stewart song – a rare recording of Hot Legs. "Are you ready?" he asks. "Listen to this!" The decision to return for another series took some deliberation. "Certainly after the first one I didn't want to do another," says Brydon. "I thought that's it now, there's nothing else we can do. But then time passes …" Coogan agrees. "And Michael said he was going to do it in Italy," he says. "And I thought it sounded nice." Without even the aid of stand-up baths or breakfast cereals, Italy has somehow quickly seduced them. "I arrived here just knackered, thinking I don't really want to do this," admits Coogan. "And then we sat down and started eating, and drinking nice wine, and I thought this is quite nice. I slowly slid into it." Already there have been some at least semi-memorable meals: "That pasta, in that bowl," Coogan says enthusiastically. "A ravioli," he adds. "What the Italians do very well are simple foods with simple ingredients, but they have the best ingredients. They send us all the shit stuff. They hang on to the best tomatoes …" Brydon nods. "I quite enjoy going to Carluccio's if I'm in Kingston town centre," he says. "I've nothing against Carluccio, but it puts it in perspective when you're out here." Coogan smirks. "He's a friend of yours, isn't he?" he asks, and Brydon adopts his best Ronnie Corbett tone: "He's a friend, a very dear friend, we play celebrity golf together." 11 "Italian was all I ate as a younger man," he continues. "Not so much nowadays. I seek out fish more now – it feels like you're putting decent things inside you're body. I used to have a massive appetite for sweets and chocolate and rubbish, but it's really dropped off." Coogan looks surprised. "Did you?" he asks. "Mine's got more. I like tea and chocolate in the evening in front of the telly. Sometimes I'll have Sleepytime tea. But I mix it up: I play fast and loose with my tea." Brydon leans over. "That's Steve all over," he says in a conspiratorial tone. "Try and predict what he's going to be having and you're on a hiding to nothing." Coogan nods. "I try and surprise myself. Loretta'll say, 'What kind of tea'll you have?' And I say, 'You know what, I'm going to have mint.' " Brydon shakes his head. "It's Loretta I feel sorry for," he says. "It's a rollercoaster." The success of series one surprised them. Winterbottom had cajoled them into taking part over lunch, and they had turned him down twice. "I thought it would just be self-indulgent, because a person playing himself is not an original idea. But then I said to Rob, 'Let's just do it. It's Michael doing it. The worst it can be is a noble failure.' " It was in the Lake District, around the time they shot at L'Enclume, that Coogan began to have a feeling it might be something special. "Because I couldn't think of anything it was derivative of." This is not to suggest that either of them entirely understands it. In lieu of scripts, Winterbottom will give them a story, a scenario, topics for discussion (in this case, anything from the Italian adventures of Byron and Shelley to the merits of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill), and then the pair allow the conversation to meander off at their leisure. But the edits and the structure of each episode belong to Winterbottom, and at times his cuts have proved baffling. "It's like if anything smacks of craft, he'll kick against it," says Coogan. "He deliberately wants to deconstruct things, in a way I find a bit frustrating. You'll say: 'Why have you left all that? We're just repeating ourselves!' And then Michael says: 'Well life's repetitive.' " We head into town for dinner, the assorted cast and crew taking over a long table in a neardeserted restaurant overlooking the beach. There is calamari, swordfish, giant prawns, baskets of focaccia, and the restaurant's silence is broken by Brydon's phone, spilling out the new Rod Stewart album through its speaker, and by a ceaseless run of impressions: Paul McCartney, Roger Moore singing Simon and Garfunkel, and an assortment of increasingly risqué tales all related in the voice of Alan Bennett. "I watched the young women swimming," runs one such story. "Their legs opening and closing beneath the water. Opening and closing. Opening and closing. Opening and closing. And then opening once again …" 12 I meet them in London some months later. We are lunching at Quo Vadis, the Soho institution recently revived once more by the Hart Brothers, who introduced a seasonal British menu. Brydon is already at the table when Coogan arrives. Once again they are wearing nearidentical outfits. "We do this so often," he says. "I nearly wore a blue jumper underneath my slightly tweedy jacket. And what have you got on your feet?" They are both wearing brown brogues. "Brown!" laughs Coogan. "I like to have a bit of 'whoa' on your feet." It has been a particularly successful year for Coogan, with the success of Alpha Papa and Philomena, and the prize for outstanding achievement at the British Comedy Awards. The pair adopt their familiar dynamic in which Coogan is the feted Hollywood mingler and Brydon the aspiring star. "I was chatting to Warren Beatty the other day …" Coogan says as they inspect the menu. "Ha ha ha!" bleats Brydon. "How is he? I haven't seen him in ages! I don't think I've seen him since last Christmas!" Coogan, aware of quite how ludicrous his life has become, laughs a steady "chuck chuck chuck". "He invited me round to his house," he says, and Brydon frowns: "Why?" Coogan shrugs. "Because he'd heard that I was someone worth talking to." Brydon shakes his head. "OK," he says, "let's talk about this, I want detail. Tell us everything. Take your time." The waiter arrives and Brydon orders the shepherd's pie. "Well then I should get something different. I wanted to get that but I might have a nibble of yours. What's a coquelet?" He asks the waiter, and then looks horrified at the explanation. "REALLY?" he says. "Did you hear that? Well what's an onglet? I'm scared to ask! I'll have the lamb." Brydon is keen to return to the matter of Warren Beatty. "Have you ever met Warren?" Coogan asks him. "Have I ever met Warren? Has Warren ever met me?" Brydon replies. "I just bumped into Aled Jones and Lorraine Kelly in the street. They told me to tell you how much they enjoyed Philomena. Bravo, bravo, they said." Coogan laughs. "So on the one hand you've got Warren," continues Brydon, "and on the other you've got Aled and Lorraine." It is hard to steer them on to the subject of food. Conversation with Coogan and Brydon is a little like Morecambe and Wise making breakfast: more about the perfectly synched performance than the fact they're making toast. 13 They will begin discussing the incredible meals they enjoyed in Italy – the seafood linguine, the-remarkable-risotto-in-that-family-restaurant-up-the-steps-that-very-hot-day, and then Brydon will go scurrying off on to the matter of Bobby Davro in a hot tub or Coogan will suddenly address the peculiar melancholy of business hotels: "One of those places that looks nice from the outside but it's got fire doors on the inside and those reinforcements they put on stairs – the rubber or brass strips on the steps. You see them and it does take a little bit of your soul." How important, I ask, is food to The Trip? "I was far less aware of it this time," Brydon says, part-way through his Arbroath smokie. "I was far more aware of the need to be interesting. I ate a lot less, because I was wolfing it down on the first series and I put on eight pounds. I haven't put any weight on this time. But this time the actual meals I found to be a slight inconvenience or a distraction." They remember the conversations more clearly: "Have you seen the Ravello scene?" Brydon asks Coogan. "We are so drunk. Look at my eyes in that scene. That was so funny. We're doing Gore Vidal and you were trying to remember that quote and swearing 'cause I'm drunk, but determined to get the quote out." Then there was the day Brydon had to eat a stuffed onion while nursing a fiendish hangover. "I was ill," he recalls. "I'd been quite excessive the night before. I was feeling deathly, and I was having to bloody eat." Coogan laughs: "I said, 'You're going to have to act like you're not ill.' That was my acting advice." Series two was, they say, akin to a travelling circus, moving from town to town, eating, drinking, sitting on beaches. "It was magical," Brydon says warmly. "It was a proper trip. You see us progress from the north to the south and that's what we did." "Actually our relationship was pretty similar," says Coogan. "We went through our own little odyssey off-screen as well." Brydon agrees. "I think we became closer," he says, and Coogan hesitates, fork midway to his mouth. "I don't like that word," he says, and they laugh. "Steve struggles with his feelings," explains Brydon, "but I know if he were a man who could express his feelings he would say that he feels closer to me as well." 14 Certainly there is a warmth to their relationship that seemed less evident when I visited them during the first series; then Coogan had seemed to do the bulk of the talking while Brydon sat quietly and said little. Today, they share pie and figgy pudding, divulge unrepeatable gossip, give one another career advice. But despite best intentions they do not socialise off screen. "It's one of those things where life gets in the way," says Coogan. "Having said that, that probably lends itself very well to us working together. Because we haven't said everything already." Brydon suddenly takes out his phone. "I've got a video of him diving off a cliff. Do you want to see it?" he says, and digs through his picture archive. "Ladies and gentlemen, Mr Coogan, diving from a cliff." He shows us the footage: a warm spring day, a steep cliff, blue water and Coogan arcing into the air. "That cliff," says Brydon fondly, "was as much a metaphor as much as it was a cliff." Coogan watches it over again. "I was quite scared," he says. "I tell you what was nice this time," Brydon continues, "was that quite often when Steve and I would stay in the nice hotel and everyone else would stay in the cheaper hotel down the road, it meant that having acted eating meals each day we would find ourselves just the two of us sharing a meal at the end of the day. And it turned out to be really lovely. We actually opened up to each other a bit. We bonded a bit." "We did," says Coogan. "Sometimes it was more interesting than on screen." Brydon looks back at the video of Coogan, diving into the Italian sea. "And now," he says, with a tenderness that seems as genuine as it is comic, "well now we're very happy together." Steve Coogan, left, and Rob Brydon in Camogli, Italy. Photograph: Sarah Lee for Observer Food Monthly 15 THE TRIP TO ITALY – restaurants & hotels hotels / hôtels • Hotel Cenobio dei Dogi – Camogli http://www.cenobio.it/it/ De Ligurische keuken, gekend om het gebruik van olijven, pijnboompitten en basilicum, en het beste samen te vatten in de simpele pesto alla genovese. Cuisine ligure, célèbre pour son utilisation d'olives, noix de pin et de basilic, et le meilleur résumé par le simple pesto alla genovese. • Ristorante e Albergo da Giovanni – San Fruttuoso http://www.dagiovanniristorante.com/index.html • Relais la Suvera – Pievescola http://www.lasuvera.it/en/ Het restaurant van het hotel, L'Oliviera, gelegen in een oude olijfmolen, biedt unieke gerechten: zoals kreeftravioli met broccoli. Le restaurant de l'hôtel, L'Oliviera, dans un ancien moulin à huile, proposant des plats uniques comme des raviolis de homard avec du brocoli. • Hotel Locarno – Roma http://www.hotellocarno.com/ita/hotel.htm • Villa Cimbrone – Ravello http://www.villacimbrone.com/ Won zijn eerste Michelin-ster vorig jaar voor een menu dat is gebaseerd op de eigen geteelde producten. Gagné sa première étoile Michelin l'an dernier pour un menu qui s'appuie sur les produits cultivés sur place. 16 restaurants • Trattoria della posta – Monforte d’Alba http://www.trattoriadellaposta.it/indexeng.html • Ristorante la cantina – San Fruttuoso http://www.lacantinasanfruttuoso.it/home.html Met zijn sublieme ligging aan de rand van de zee, kan je het beste de schaal-en schelpdieren uitproberen, in het bijzonder de fritto misto. Avec son cadre sublime au bord de la mer, essayez les fruits de mer, fritto misto en particulier. • Trattoria Albana – Mezzolla http://www.trattoriaalbanamazzolla.com/ • Ristorante Oliver Glowig – Roma http://www.oliverglowig.com/ De Duitse chef Glowig verhuisde naar Rome en verdiende zodoende twee Michelinsterren. Verwacht kalfsfilet met pinda's en escargots op smaak gebracht met munt, en spaghetti met oesters en bloemkool. Le chef allemand Glowig est déménagé à Rome et a obtenu deux étoiles Michelin dans le processus. Attendez-vous à filet de veau avec des cacahuètes et des escargots au saveur de la menthe et des spaghettis à huîtres et au chou-fleur. • Relais Blu – Massa Lubrense http://www.relaisblu.com/ • Ristorante il Riccio – Capri http://www.capripalace.com/en/restaurants/restaurant-riccio/ Een stijlvolle ontmoetingsplaats, bekend om de overvloed van zijn zeevruchtenbuffet en zijn dessertspecialiteiten: zoals baba en delizie al limone. Un lieu de rencontre élégant, réputé pour l'abondance de son buffet des fruits de mer et les spécialités de dessert comme baba et delizie al limone. 17
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