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"Peter Capaldi has admitted that some people confuse him with his The Thick Of It character Malcolm Tucker. In an interview with the Daily Record, Capaldi explained that he &amp;quot;never felt typecast&amp;quot; by Malcolm but confessed that he tries to keep the role separate from the rest of his life. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve lost count of the times I&amp;#039;ve been asked to &amp;#039;be&amp;#039; Malcolm Tucker, to go on a political programme on television, presumably in order to be the character and give opinions as him,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;ve run a mile from doing so in the past and will continue to do so. It&amp;#039;s not that I don&amp;#039;t like the guy or didn&amp;#039;t enjoy playing him - I loved it. But I&amp;#039;m Peter Capaldi. He&amp;#039;s a TV character for whom a team of people write scripts. And to imagine we are one and the same person is dangerous and wrong. So that&amp;#039;s why I was annoyed when somebody put me on the same table as Alastair Campbell at a Channel 4 political awards ceremony a while back, but I was interested, too, to observe him.&amp;quot; Capaldi also hinted that Malcolm Tucker may not return to The Thick Of It now that New Labour are no longer in power. &amp;quot;There will be a new series of The Thick Of It but I&amp;#039;m not sure Malcolm will be involved,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;d hate to just be standing around, this character from the political past. Malcolm deserves to be centre stage, not peripheral. He wouldn&amp;#039;t want it any other way, and nor would I.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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