By Iain Blair

Was chatting with British comedian Steve Coogan whose career is going great guns these days.  He’s currently starring opposite Ben Stiller, Robert Downey Jr. and Jack Black in the satirical war comedy Tropic Thunder where he plays a Brit movie director dealing with a bunch of spoiled Hollywood actors.

The comedy is full of inside jokes, along the lines of The Player and Get Shorty, and was directed and co-written by Stiller. Coogan is good friends with Stiller – they’re currently shooting Night at the Museum 2, he told me -but he also gave me some interesting insight into Ben Stiller the director. “He’s really, really tough when he’s in the zone, and very tenacious – it’s “Do it again, do it again,” until he gets exactly what he wants,” he told me. “I shot for 7 weeks in Hawaii and had a wonderful time, although it was a tough shoot as we were literally slogging through the jungle every day.”

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