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Simon Pegg (28)

Birth:	14th February, 1970
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Director, Producer, Writer

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• Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.

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• Also, if you watch the film once, there are lots of things that you won’t get because there are punch lines in the first act, the setup to which isn’t until the second act.

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• Every person should have their escape route planned. I think everyone has an apocalypse fantasy, what would I do in the event of the end of the world, and we just basically – me and Nick – said what would we do, where would we head?

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• I don’t know about doing a sequel. I think you can retroactively damage a product by adding to it.

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• Doctor Who was a big part of my childhood so it was a great honour to be in it.

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• American audiences tend to be more expressive than British ones.

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• I just love listening to the laughter.

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• The main jokes in this film are about big things, love and life and zombies – we all get that.

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• I think that the joke and the ghost story both have a similar set up in that you kind of set something up and pay it off with a laugh or a scare.

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• The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.

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• Chris Martin’s a good friend of mine. I’m actually Apple’s godfather. He’s an old friend and we’ve been mates for quite a few years now.

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• That’s what we wanted to get across in that moment, particularly when Shaun goes to the shop when he’s all hung over. He doesn’t notice any of the zombies around him just because he never had before, so why should he at that point?

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• I loved playing Shaun, he’s not that different from me.

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• In England, we don’t have any guns whatsoever.

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• I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.

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• The simple fact is that what you see on the screen is pretty much real.

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• You don’t look at each other on the subway.

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• You look at shows like The Simpsons or Larry Sanders or Curb Your Enthusiasm or Seinfeld, they’re really sophisticated shows that we all love back home.

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• There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way – so there wasn’t really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.

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• There are actually quite high profile British TV star cameos in it that you probably wouldn’t even notice, that the British wouldn’t even notice, let alone the American audience.

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