The vastly talented Paddy Considine has been talking to Digital Spy about his experience the hardcore Edgar Wright, getting back together with Pegg & Frost for THE WORLD’S END and more about his character in the upcoming finale to the ‘Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’ out in the UK on July 19th and following in the USA on August 23rd.
Considine also took his place in HOT FUZZ as the other half of the two arrogant country cops (the other played by Rafe Spall), and has since cemented himself in the industry with the truly harrowing, yet excellent, TYRANNOSAUR. However, he actually found THE WORLD’S END one of the toughest shoots in recent times, saying this:
“It was hard – we were up against it – weather-wise, schedule-wise… it was tough, but we kept ourselves amused and when one [of us] was dipping, somebody else rallied round and pulled them out. We were a little gang of five against the world – well, six, including Edgar. It was a tough shoot, but what I’ve seen of it looks fantastic. Edgar’s such a great talent – I love him to bits. I’m not hyping it – it does look incredible.”
Exciting stuff! For us, it’s also been interesting to see Simon Pegg’s changing characters through the trilogy, and from the first trailer that we featured earlier this week, it looks like Pegg has taken on a rebellious turn this time and of that character, Paddy commented:
“I’m really excited for Simon in this film, because in the past, he’s sort of played the slightly straighter guy – particularly in Hot Fuzz, the goody two-shoes. Whereas in this, he gets to let out his inner hooligan – he’s like Vyv from The Young Ones. There’s a great sensibility about this character and Simon had a lot of fun playing it – you could tell.”
And on his own character, Steven:
“He is a bit of a straight-ish character – he goes on quite a journey actually. He’s not the funniest guy in the world, but I had to figure out what his journey was in the film. It comes good for him, it comes alright for him in the end. I didn’t want him to be the dislikable guy in the gang – and I don’t think he is.”, he continued: “It’s interesting because they come back together when they’re 40 and they just slot straight back into that old dynamic, no matter what they’ve gone on to achieve, that happens with my character – he’s got all this self-confidence and once he falls back under Gary’s [Simon Pegg] spell, they become 16 again. It’s very clever like that.”
Paddy then talked on Wright’s work ethic and, in fairness, I think we can completely understand this as you don’t get anywhere these days without really working hard and putting in the shifts, something that this whole cast have definitely done in the last 10 years or so:
“I think it’s wonderful – I really hope it does well. But I can’t say any more, because Edgar Wright would kill me – he looks like he’s nothing, but he’s a tough little son of a gun!”
Don’t forget, you can check out the poster by clicking here and the first trailer by heading here. THN can’t wait to get annihilated!
Source: DigitalSpy
