The idiosyncratic comic’s sprawling CV includes poetry, Alan Partridge and a spell in a pigeon costume but his latest career destination might be his most unlikely yet – Hollywood
No, Tim Key doesn’t know why he’s dressed as a pigeon either. In Mickey 17, triple-Oscar-winner Bong Joon-ho’s recent sci-fi blockbuster, the comedian plays a man desperate to join a mission to colonise the ice planet Niflheim. The next thing he knows, he’s on the spaceship – inexplicably trussed up in a luxuriant pigeon suit and acting as the expedition leader’s lackey. Can Key shed any light on this turn of events?
“No I can’t,” he says, decisively. He enquired about his character’s outfit during his first meeting with Bong. “And he laughed and didn’t answer.” On set, Key says he “shuffled over in my costume” and asked again. “And he laughed again.” At the premiere, the Parasite director gave Key “a big hug, and then I said: ‘Just going back to this pigeon thing … ’ and he laughed again. I don’t think I’m going to ask him any more.”
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