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Steve Coogan isn’t earnest enough for the dire political comedy The Penguin Lessons

2/5 Finally a film that asks ‘could an adorable flightless bird convince Alan Partridge to stand up to Argentina’s military dictatorship?’

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2025

Steve Coogan on his very unusual new comedy: ‘The penguin takes the edge off the fascism’

INTERVIEW: In ‘The Penguin Lessons’, the man behind Alan Partridge plays a school teacher in military-occupied Argentina who forms an unlikely bond with a seabird. Such tonal extremes required a delicate hand, he and his co-star Jonathan Pryce tell Annabel Nugent

The Independent UK · Apr 17, 2025

Steve Coogan: ‘Art is what humanises us, and it can’t be measured on a spreadsheet’

Steve Coogan and the cast and crew behind charming new movie The Penguin Lessons share what they learned from being on set with a penguin.

Evening Standard · Apr 15, 2025