Director Armando Iannucci has defended his decision to cast Dev Patel in The Personal History of David Copperfield.
He told The Guardian: “It’s when I thought of Dev as David. He said: ‘Do I have an Indian father?’
Explaining why he chose to cast Patel in the movie, Iannucci said: “It just felt like, why are we not doing this?”
The Personal History of David Copperfield is released in UK cinemas on 10 January 2020.
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