Hugh Laurie (who was a stand-up before achieving global fame in Dr House) is her odd lodger who assuages his anxiety by writing about King Charles I. Apart from Patel, who was Iannucci’s dream actor for David, Tilda Swinton plays David’s aunt Betsey Trotwood in full English eccentric mode. The humour here is gentler, given that it’s an adaptation and Iannucci is a real Dickens fan. Iannucci is known for political satire in the series In the Loop, The Thick of It and Veep. But Armando Iannucci has given the story a very new feel, while keeping Dickens' humour and playing with that idea of autobiography and the art of inventing oneself through the act of writing. The Personal History of David Copperfield is far from the first adaptation of Charles Dickens' semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel.
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