EXCLUSIVE VIDEO: Steve Coogan On Challenges Of Working With Live Penguins In ‘The Penguin Lessons’

In a conversation with uInterview, Steve Coogan shared details from his new movie The Penguin Lessons, which follows a teacher (Coogan) who takes a job in Argentina in 1976 during a time of political upheaval. When he adopts a penguin he finds orphaned on the beach, the events that ensue cause him to have a personal and political awakening. Speculating on what his character learns from the penguin, Coogan told uInterview founder Erik Meers, “Sometimes it’s projection, but there’s something quite zen about penguins. Penguins tend not to suffer from lots of neurological conditions because they’re too busy being penguins – and there might be a lesson there for humanity, and certainly for Tom Michelle, the character I play, so it becomes sort of the catalyst.” The Penguin Lessons is now in theaters.