David Mitchell

Have spent a lot of time in Greece in The Last period of rotation of the greed of his new Film, and The Last series of The Trip - Steve Coogan is in a philosophical mood.

reflection on capitalism and his own career (from the inside of a fancy hotel in London), he is poised, like Pericles, and not ready for the "finger-pointing" on the retail industry.

"I believe Plato said," If you have no enemies, then you have no real friends"," the actor muses.

"Because I can't be fired for various things, I think, by [only] one person, so I can afford to annoy some people along the way. "

In greed, Coogan and Director Michael Winterbottom goal of the billionaire bosses of multi-national companies, he says, are turning on "massive profits", while the factories They pay in developing countries such as Sri Lanka to their employees for around £3 per day.

"That's not a secret," says Coogan. "But no one talks about them.

"Nothing we say in the Film is not all that is a matter of public records. What we do the light is on want that. "

at a time, in the formerly "fringe" or "eccentric" subjects such as gender politics and environmental concerns are now part of the "national dialogue", the 54-year-old looks, such as "exploitation" as a yet unspoken truth.

"was It so, we woke up one morning, and began recycling. It happens gradually, and The Conversation gets louder, so it is something that you do not agree maybe, but you can't ignore.

"now, you can ignore it and Most People ignore the huge imbalance between the rich and the poor, because it is the elephant in The Room , and it is embarrassing to talk about it "

greed is only a letter away from the Green, and although Coogan the character of Sir Richard McCreadie is fictitious, although loosely based on the controversial entrepreneur Sir Philip Green , Coogan says, the film "is a direct attack on him".

Green, the Monaco-based Arcadia Group Chairman, was and was,

Arcadia, which owns Topshop, has denied, with sweatshops, and if it is "found a supplier violated was clearly our strict code of conduct (code of conduct".

The Company has not responded to the Bbc request for comment on the release of greed.

"There are Many people who earn their money through the exploitation of people," says Coogan.

"Most of them behave inconspicuously and you don't want to call attention to themselves, but [Green] on the back. For a long time, he was like, 'Check me out, how successful I Am . Look at my money. Look on my parties. Look at my friends.

"Because he's a charismatic figure, it was a good base on which to develop this Film idea. "

Coogan hope the character is thinking, the audience, twice The Price of fast fashion, "wince" and laugh in equal measure.

"Even if he is not to be nice to people, he has a funny turn of phrase, so you go along for The Ride and this is important," he says.

"If it's behavior is just disgusting, reprehensible, then you are not going to stay around for too long. "

As The Creator of one of the Country 's most beautiful disgusting Comedy characters, Alan Partridge , Coogan is not exactly short of a bob or two himself, and he was not averse to the High Life .

"in the past, I was a Party Animal , but not for a long time," he says.

has collected recently, the TV Funny Man and for more serious roles in Philomena and Stan & Ollie.

He is also collected on behalf of the Labour Party and the Bbc - as "second only to the NHS in its cultural significance for the Country " - as well as against the covert activities of some of the groups of The British tabloid press.

Coogan gave evidence to the Leveson inquiry, after he had hacked his phone, and was.

In the new film, which features Isla Fisher , David Mitchell , and a cameo appearance by, McGreadie appears in front of a similar panel to explain his dodgy off-shore operations and work practices. The story revolves around to repair a decadent, star-studded birthday party thrown on The Greek island of Mykonos to help his reputation.

It is similar, triggered by Green in Real Life , but with an additional asylum-seeker side story, gladiator, metaphors, and, Oh Yes, a lion.

"I suppose you could. in relation to [Percy Bysshe] Shelley's call to arms," says Coogan, prior to the Start in a (almost) word-perfect, last verse of the Romantic poets Masque of Anarchy is

"'Rise like lions after Slumber / In unvanquishable number". What is it? 'Free your chains to earth like dew, the / are in the bedroom They were placed: ye are Many - They are few. '"

"I'm going to assume that Michael [Winterbottom, the Director], the metaphor that way," he laughs. "But, there is a lion in him."

promotional interviews, Coogan explains that he would not be grandstanding on the issues raised in the Film as "the film makes for us."

The actor and Director team have worked together for decades, on films such as 24 Hour Party People (talking of parties) and the popular naturalistic TV-sitcom The Trip .

Coogan and Rob Brydon play exaggerated versions of themselves in the seeming mockumentary Road Trip series, which it has taken in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain and on to Greece next month, for what he admits could be The Last time.

"I was not quite sure that it was The Last ," he hesitates. "I felt like it could be, and probably really should. But then it started to feel like it had a finality to it.

"I think knew that Michael secretly already, it would be The Last .

"So it was sad. I'm sure in a few years I'll feel very nostalgic about our trips, but if you are in The Middle you're just in the moment. "

The Middletonian that he observed in fact, every episode, but enjoys, such as the "half-fictional /half-real" nature of The Show there is a deeper personal "resonance". "It's more like looking through a box of old photos. "

It offers him the "license" to say things that he "would not say that in reality, even if I might think you are".

"That's part of what made it pleasant to think,;" When I said this, I would think, in reality, I was a complete ass!'

"We take a grain of truth and grow a little distorted. "

as well as The Trip , Coogan will reprise his role as Alan in the next Trip report-TV-series (the ), and a second series of This Time .

The TV sitcom brought back The Infamous transmitter and pulled him in the modern, post #MeToo world, in agonisingly funny fashion.

"It is much better to deal with the stuff deemed not to deal with it," says Coogan, coping with the Sexual Politics more in an upcoming new Channel 4 comedy, chivalry, with Sarah Solemani .

"is Sometimes The Best way to talk about things, is a fictional comic book story, because it makes it possible to talk of responsibility, it is more free. "

Partridge once his "common Latin boasted," not Greek, but, like Plato, he is not against the enemies. The Last time he found himself involved with the Irish rebel singers, who live on the Bbc .

"It felt States as a punk-rock moment," Coogan proud of.

"I'm half British and half Irish, and this is where They bumped into each other. "

greed is on the 21. February

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