Edgar Wright

And he could keep his name.

Yeah.

I think, I'm not sure.

Maybe the other Nick Frost changed his name.

He worked at a Mexican restaurant, which is not really a thing in the UK, as you probably know, called Chiquitos.

I remember he'd never acted before, and he would do this thing, and he kept doing this on Shaun of the Dead, that I would sometimes give him a direction, and Nick Frost would walk up to me and whisper in my ear and say, please remember, I am not an actor.

That's great.

And that continues to this day.

Yeah, I mean, it was... I owe it all to a newspaper editor in my hometown, Mike Mathias, who had some... I think he had just come into inheritance, so he had some tax loss money.

So we made the whole thing on 11 grand, and then we raised another... Maybe it was the whole thing cost 22 grand, actually.

Wow.

It was like sort of shot it over like 20 days on 16 mil.

It was all starring like my...

school friends and my college friends it didn't actually occur to me that there might be actors around in fact the only actor that's in it who's um and if you from ted lasso james lance is in the movie and the only reason that he's in the movie is that he um his mom heard that in the local paper that some kids are making a movie and he said oh i'm an actor and i said oh sure you could be in it that was how the casting worked so that's great it was it was very it was like um

78 minutes long with credits.

Here's a good story.

I had to pad it out.

The movie, as you all know, having made, directed, and written, is that you usually have the assemble edit.

For Tracy, the assemble edit is when all of the takes of the movie are put together.

So usually an assemble edit might be hours and hours long.