In the decade or so since Nick Frost first made a name for himself on the BBC comedy series Spaced, much has happened. For starters, he’s not waiting tables at that Mexican restaurant. He’s moved with ease from television to film, most famously in genre riffs Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz (with Spaced comrades Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg), and in the alien geek ode Paul (which he co-wrote and stars in with Pegg). Also notably, Frost has ventured out from the fold in films like Pirate Radio and the forthcoming Snow White and the Huntsman. And, with this week’s The Adventures of Tintin, he notches another milestone: Working with his hero, Steven. Steven Spielberg.
Frost, Wright, and Pegg may be stretching their wings a bit after coming to prominence as “The Guys Who Made Spaced/Shaun of the Dead/Hot Fuzz/Etc.” but they all come together, with buddy Joe Cornish (whose directing debut, this year’s Attack the Block, features Frost as a dope dealer), in Spielberg’s motion-capture adventure adaptation Tintin — Wright and Cornish scripting, with Pegg and Frost as the comically bumbling Scotland Yard detectives Thomson and Thompson.
Movieline spoke with Pegg in New York about his ten years since Spaced, maintaining the Wright-Pegg “unit” while establishing himself as his own entity, his directorial aspirations, working on the upcoming Snow White and the Huntsman, completing the “Blood and Ice Cream” trilogy, how he really feels about Indiana Jones 4, and why he missed his first phone call from Spielberg for a very, very good reason.
You, along with Simon, got to do a riff on Star Wars, he’s in Star Trek, and now you’re working with Spielberg…
What was the riff on Star Wars —…
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