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"Steve Coogan has said that filming The Trip was at times a lengthily and uncomfortable experience. The comedian, who appears with Rob Brydon in the show which sees them tour the North of England to review restaurants, told PA that the nature of playing exaggerated versions of their own characters, combined with the excessive food, made the process difficult at times. Coogan explained: &amp;quot;One scene would often take about eight hours to shoot, in which time we&amp;#039;d have to eat three dinners. &amp;quot;But then the cruel trick of comedy is that the easier it looks, the harder it&amp;#039;s been to create.&amp;quot; Speaking about the contrast between Coogan&amp;#039;s poignancy and Brydon&amp;#039;s upbeat demeanour in the show, the actor said: &amp;quot;We just took things that are partly sort of true. I think Rob has a lightness of touch, while I&amp;#039;m a little more contemplative about things. &amp;quot;I wouldn&amp;#039;t say I&amp;#039;m tortured, but there are aspects of ourselves which help the comedy that we definitely play up to in The Trip. &amp;quot;I mean there&amp;#039;s some truth in it, but there&amp;#039;s lots of stuff that&amp;#039;s distorted for the purposes of comedy.&amp;quot; He added: &amp;quot;We&amp;#039;re nowhere near as antagonistic as we are in the series. It&amp;#039;s just a more interesting tension. And Rob doesn&amp;#039;t do impersonations all the time, well hardly ever, and I&amp;#039;m not really as miserable as I come across on screen. &amp;quot;What the perception of me is, I don&amp;#039;t have any interest in at all. I&amp;#039;m just thinking, &amp;#039;What&amp;#039;s the most funny thing to say?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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