“For immigrant families, the question is always: do we fit in?”.

I met Iannucci in an airless meeting room in London at the end of a long day promoting his third film as director, The Personal History of David Copperfield. This feeling of "status anxiety" is what drew Iannucci to David Copperfield, whose protagonist grapples with Victorian England's suffocating social hierarchies. Mid-19th century London was less white than we assume, anyway, Iannucci observed. [Extracted from the article]

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