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<\/div> While the first series, which aired in 2019, starred Ginnifer Goodwin, Lucy Liu and Kirby Howell-Baptiste in a story set across three different time periods, the second season focuses on completely new characters living in 1940s American suburbia and works as a standalone story \u2013 an element which appealed to homebody Frost. \u201cI\u2019ve been offered lots of work in the States in the past, but traditionally, to sing up to do a show in the States, you sign up to do like seven series by seven years or something like that.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s fun, but I\u2019m from [the UK]. My family are here. We live here. I like going to the States to hang out and do press and screenings and the odd little month here or there when I\u2019m doing a film but I don\u2019t want to live there. So when I got this opportunity, they said well it\u2019s only one season and you won\u2019t be coming back and if they do the third season, it will be with another set of actors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe had a big conversation with my family and everyone said, \u2018It\u2019s a great opportunity.\u2019 The character was great and I was a massive fan of Allison Tolman and I knew what Mark Cherry was about,\u201d he adds. \u201cI just felt grateful that a lot of people were not working but I got the opportunity to do something which I loved that was amazing.\u201d<\/p>
Like most TV shows scheduled for release this year, Why Women Kill was filmed during the pandemic and faced a few production pauses due to potential COVID exposure. \u201cI think I was responsible for shutting down shooting at one point because I was in close proximity with someone who then texted me to say, \u2018You should know I\u2019m positive\u2019, so I then had to tell production and we shut down for four days. I felt awful,\u201d Frost says.<\/p>\n
Filming took place in California at the start of the year and with coronavirus a big risk, there were a number of new safety rules introduced on set. \u201cThere are some rules that you think, \u2018Why? Why are we doing this? I don\u2019t get it.\u2019 Like, I can\u2019t sing on set. My character sung a song a couple of times but I was not allowed to sing on set yet we could do a kissing scene which is weird to me.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I think everyone \u2013 considering I looked at humanity before we did this show, before COVID, and I was like, \u2018We\u2019re kind of stuck in our ways as humans,\u2019 \u2013 I think with COVID, we reacted really quickly to it. We adapted really well, really quickly and that was [with] filming too.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know there\u2019s a global pandemic but people still need new TV shows. That\u2019s all we\u2019ve got for Christ\u2019s sake,\u201d he jokes. \u201cThat\u2019s all we\u2019ve got left!\u201d<\/p>\n
On that note, a sitcom that many, including myself, binge-watched over lockdown was Spaced \u2013 the cult Channel 4 sitcom which gave Simon Pegg, Jessica Stevenson, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost their first taste of fame. Has Frost, who played Pegg\u2019s on-screen best friend Mike on the show, watched any of the episodes back? \u201cListen, I don\u2019t know anyone I went to school with, I\u2019ve never looked for that, I just keep going forward. I don\u2019t really watch anything I do.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf sometimes me and my wife are out or on holiday and we come back to our room and Paul is on or Hot Fuzz is halfway through, then we\u2019ll watch it, but I don\u2019t go and seek it out because like lots of actors, I see what I did wrong. I get that it\u2019s great and people love it but I look at it and just think, \u2018Ah, I shouldn\u2019t have done that.\u2019 Plus, [Spaced] was the first thing I ever did. Spaced and I will always have that.\u201d<\/p>\n
An episode of Spaced, in which Tim (Pegg) hallucinates that he\u2019s fighting off a zombie invasion whilst under the influence of amphetamine, would go onto become the inspiration for Shaun of the Dead \u2013 the first film in Frost, Pegg and Wright\u2019s Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. The hugely successful 2004 zom-com was soon followed by buddy cop comedy Hot Fuzz in 2007 and then sci-fi flick The World\u2019s End in 2013 \u2013 however the trio have not worked together since then. Are there plans for a reunion anytime soon?<\/p>\n
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<\/div> \u201cWell, Simon and I have a production company [Stolen Picture] so we speak every day really, we text each other a lot and we Zoom. Edgar and I, Edgar\u2019s been away shooting lots of things so yeah I mean, we always talk about it. There\u2019s definitely stuff we\u2019re gonna do but in terms of when the three of us are all free, it is really difficult.<\/p>\n
\u201cMaybe it\u2019ll be nice to put some time aside and to get something going. When it happens, it\u2019ll happen.\u201d<\/p>\n
He adds that the three friends\u2019 frequent collaborations have allowed them to see how their relationships and characters have changed onscreen in parallel with themselves in real life. \u201cI always remember that famous documentary called Seven Up [an ITV docuseries which followed the same subjects from the age of seven up to 63]. We\u2019ve kind of got the opportunity to do that cinematically in terms of creating slightly older characters each time that we play, and it\u2019s kind of interesting for me to see how they evolved. Because first I was Ed and then in World\u2019s End, I was a bloody lawyer for Christ\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019ll be horrible in like 20 or 30 years if one of us dies and then we just do a film that\u2019s just me and not Simon. It\u2019ll be really sad. And there\u2019s an empty chair and we just keep looking at it and we do that for 90 minutes,\u201d he laughs.<\/p>\n
One of Stolen Pictures\u2019 more recent projects was Truth Seekers \u2013 Pegg and Frost\u2019s Amazon Prime Video<\/a> comedy-horror that was cancelled earlier this year after one season. When I ask whether Frost is hoping it might be saved \u00e0 la Brooklyn Nine-Nine and NBC, he says: \u201cNo, it\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI think it\u2019s really doubtful that another streamer would ever pick up something else that another guy has discarded. I think amongst the people who liked it, they really liked it but I just think for things to get [a second series], you have to smash it.<\/p>\n \u201cI think a streamer like Amazon, it\u2019s not like traditional TV where it says, \u2018Ok, well you had a million viewers and then after the adverts 500,000 came back and then for episode two\u2013.\u2019 The algorithms involved are just so f**king complicated. Amazon also judge everything by how many new subscribers come in and stuff like that, it\u2019s not just about how many people watch it.<\/p>\n \u201cI loved making it, I loved the character but maybe it\u2019s just how it should be, right? There\u2019ll be other versions of that, for real. I\u2019m always somewhere near aliens or the occult, it\u2019s one of my loves.\u201d<\/p>\n As for what\u2019s next for Frost, he\u2019s expecting a baby \u201cliterally at any moment\u201d and about to start filming the second half of The Nevers<\/a>, which made its HBO\/Sky Atlantic debut in April \u2013 however, he can\u2019t give much away about what fans can expect. \u201cI don\u2019t know anything, it\u2019s so complicated. It\u2019s amazing \u2013 those guys are so clever.\u201d<\/p>\n Why Women Kill premieres Thursday 12th August at 9pm on Alibi. <\/strong>Plan your viewing with our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or visit our dedicated\u00a0Drama<\/a> hub for the latest news.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The Shaun of the Dead star speaks to Lauren Morris about playing a serial killer in his new comedy-drama, when he’ll next work with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and returning to the Nevers for The Big RT Interview. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":3032,"template":"","categories":[1],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/nick-frost-on-reuniting-with-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright-why-he-cant-watch-himself-in-spaced-and-his-new-comedy-drama-why-women-kill.jpg",620,413,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/nick-frost-on-reuniting-with-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright-why-he-cant-watch-himself-in-spaced-and-his-new-comedy-drama-why-women-kill-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/nick-frost-on-reuniting-with-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright-why-he-cant-watch-himself-in-spaced-and-his-new-comedy-drama-why-women-kill-300x200.jpg",300,200,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/nick-frost-on-reuniting-with-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright-why-he-cant-watch-himself-in-spaced-and-his-new-comedy-drama-why-women-kill.jpg",620,413,false],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/nick-frost-on-reuniting-with-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright-why-he-cant-watch-himself-in-spaced-and-his-new-comedy-drama-why-women-kill.jpg",620,413,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/nick-frost-on-reuniting-with-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright-why-he-cant-watch-himself-in-spaced-and-his-new-comedy-drama-why-women-kill.jpg",620,413,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2021\/08\/nick-frost-on-reuniting-with-simon-pegg-and-edgar-wright-why-he-cant-watch-himself-in-spaced-and-his-new-comedy-drama-why-women-kill.jpg",620,413,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Shaun of the Dead star speaks to Lauren Morris about playing a serial killer in his new comedy-drama, when he'll next work with Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright and returning to the Nevers for The Big RT Interview.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/3031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\""Nick\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2020\/10\/nick-frost-gus-3fc9210.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"")
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