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DVD Talk With 'Hot Fuzz' Director and Star
The men behind the British cop-romp discuss the film's second life on DVD, superhero movie 'Ant-Man,' and bathing in Michael Bay.

By Eric Alt

Nick Frost, director Edgar Wright, and Simon Pegg on the set of Hot Fuzz.

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With the release of Hot Fuzz on DVD, we question director Edgar Wright and star Nick Frost on everything from their upcoming superhero movie Ant-Man to the vengeance exacted upon them by superproducer-director Michael Bay.

PREMIERE: With the amount of material you guys plan for your DVDs, does it ever feel like you're never quite done with the process at any point?
EDGAR WRIGHT: There's definitely that. We finished making the film in January, about three weeks before it came out. Because of the shorter window, as they call it, between the release and the DVD — which is getting shorter and shorter. I'm not crazy about that because it used to be like six months, and now it's like four months or even three months, in this case. And the downside to that is that you never stop promoting the film. [laughs] Me, Nick, and Simon [Pegg] have been promoting it in Australia, New Zealand. Europe…and now we've sort of caught up to ourselves with the DVD. Me and Nick were in France three weeks ago, doing press for the film coming out. But the DVD stuff, we really pride ourselves on putting a lot of TLC into the extras.

NICK FROST: Stuff we'd want to see, you know. I don't know about here, but in the UK, DVDs are fairly expensive. So to put a DVD out with not a lot of extras would be ripping off our people, really. So it's that thing where if you have to shell out 20 quid for a double disk, then pack it with as much stuff as we can muster. Right from the beginning, from the very first rehearsals, everything is taped. Everything's recorded, so it's there.

Does that add pressure? Like, if you screw up, it'll be there for posterity…
NICK: I don't think we have that kind of self-editing.

EDGAR: Not with the "making of" stuff, because someone else is doing it. But in some ways it helps with the editing, because when you're editing you're kind of like of two minds about whether or not to cut something out. You can think, Well, you know what? It's going to be on the DVD. So there's always a thing when you're editing and there's a joke that you really like but something about it's not quite working or you need to cut the film down…it would be the case before DVDs where it'd be like sort of cutting the fingers off your baby.

NICK: Lovely image.

EDGAR: [Laughs] But now, it's like, "You know what? If we let that go, someone will still be able to see it in some form."

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