Brits Simon Pegg and Nick Frost are the stars of 'Hot Fuzz' (and cult fave 'Shaun of the Dead') AND best friends for thousands of years -- that's what they told us ... and who are we to question their honesty? We did question some other things though, namely their obsession with cop buddy movies. We have no problem with their homoerotic banter, but the rodent-erotic stuff may've crossed a line. OK, not really.
HotFuzzSimon: Hello, this is Simon
MoviefoneAngie: hi, this is angie
HotFuzzNick: Hello Nick here
HotFuzzSimon: Hi Angie
MoviefoneAngie: hey, guys! thanks for chatting. so, 'Hot Fuzz' -- really funny, really violent. you guys like shooting people up and lots of blood, huh?
HotFuzzSimon: Oh Yeah
HotFuzzNick: Hello Angie, i love shooting people
MoviefoneAngie: i've read that about you
HotFuzzNick: I wasn't always an actor
MoviefoneAngie: i read that too -- and that you were simon's best man at his wedding. how long've you guys been friends?
HotFuzzNick: about fifteen years, the speech was the greatest speech ever given
HotFuzzNick: better than any of hitlers or churchills
MoviefoneAngie: aw. sweet (i'm hoping)
HotFuzzSimon: 115666 years
MoviefoneAngie: so, in past lives?
HotFuzzSimon: Yeah, I was an Elizabethan merchant and he was a ship's rat. And I kept him in my pocket for 6 years
HotFuzzSimon: that was one of them.
MoviefoneAngie: 'bad boys' plays prominently in 'Hot Fuzz': of you two, who's martin lawrence, who's will smith?
HotFuzzSimon: We're both Will Smith
HotFuzzNick: I love watching rats making out so i guess i'm lawrence
HotFuzzSimon: That's because you used to be one buddy
HotFuzzSimon: It's porn for you
HotFuzzSimon: But really we're both ML
MoviefoneAngie: you guys are that close
MoviefoneAngie: 'point break' also features in 'Hot Fuzz': who's keanu reeves, who's patrick swayze?
HotFuzzNick: i'm busy
HotFuzzNick: i meant to say busey
HotFuzzSimon: God, please can I be Keanu
HotFuzzSimon: I think I'm a little bit like Keanu
MoviefoneAngie: it's your movie -- you get to be whoever you want, right?
HotFuzzNick: right
HotFuzzSimon: Right
MoviefoneAngie: a bit of homoerotic subtext in the buddy movies, eh?
HotFuzzNick: i love pipe. what can i say
HotFuzzSimon: I think the 'anu' part.
MoviefoneAngie: is it just fun for you guys to work together? or is it like a real job?
HotFuzzSimon: Fun fun fun all the way
HotFuzzSimon: It is a job but we have a great time of it
HotFuzzNick: it's great but very hard as we all like working, this is our passion ... that and weed
HotFuzzSimon: and Rats doing it
MoviefoneAngie: then you're gonna love 'ratatouille: the unrated version'
HotFuzzSimon: CGI don't count
HotFuzzNick: contrary to BB2 lore rats don't do it face to face
HotFuzzNick: only us and a small sub species of chimp do it face to face. and for pleasure
HotFuzzSimon: This is turning into a prelude to cyber.
MoviefoneAngie: right -- there's that species of monkey that has sex all the time instead of fighting -- just to relieve tension
HotFuzzNick: bonobo
MoviefoneAngie: right
HotFuzzSimon: Yeah like Italians!
MoviefoneAngie: i was gonna say like brits -- since you guys don't have guns. but you do have rugby
HotFuzzNick: oh yeah
HotFuzzSimon: Which is like hard sex only with bigger balls
MoviefoneAngie: and we're back to the homoerotic
HotFuzzSimon: That's how we roll
MoviefoneAngie: hey -- you guys have tons of great cameos in your movies. how do you get those?
MoviefoneAngie: (can i say some of the secret cameos from 'hot fuzz'?)
HotFuzzNick: yes
HotFuzzSimon: I think it helped having Shaun of the Dead before us.
HotFuzzSimon: If it was our first film it would have been harder to get those huge names.
MoviefoneAngie: ok -- i recognized cate blanchett as your ex. her eyes and her voice -- and i hadn't even read she was going to be in it (patting myself on the back) -- how'd you get her?
HotFuzzSimon: Well done.
HotFuzzNick: she fancies me a bit.
MoviefoneAngie: i could see that -- and i hadn't read that either. all in her eyes
HotFuzzSimon: We can't confirm or deny that it is her but if it was it was because we asked her and she really got the joke. I love her. She has the kind of beauty that can make a man cry...
HotFuzzSimon: and wee himself.
HotFuzzNick: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
MoviefoneAngie: you guys have some napkins over there?
HotFuzzSimon: I messed that sentence up because I was thinking about her.
HotFuzzSimon: Plenty thanks
HotFuzzNick: i've messed
MoviefoneAngie: yeah, she's amazing. awesome. i love her too. and i'm not a man
HotFuzzSimon: Go on...
HotFuzzNick: lesboerotic
HotFuzzSimon: Christ, we're coming off as a couple of old sleazes.
MoviefoneAngie: that is a universal, isn't it?
HotFuzzSimon: Definitely
HotFuzzSimon: Did you spot the other Oscar winner?
MoviefoneAngie: ok, no, i didn't, but someone i talked to did. santa, right?
HotFuzzNick: yarp
HotFuzzSimon: Correct.
HotFuzzSimon: The Lord of the Ring himself [Peter Jackson]
MoviefoneAngie: and you had chris martin in 'shaun' (which i LOVED LOVED LOVED by the way)
MoviefoneAngie: but he's a good friend of yours, right? and you're Apple's godfather?
HotFuzzSimon: Yarp.
MoviefoneAngie: now, i can see how you might meet someone like nick (no offense, nick!), but how'd you meet chris martin?
HotFuzzSimon: At a gig many years ago when he was a pup.
HotFuzzNick: none taken. goodbye
HotFuzzSimon: Nick has activated his rocket pack and effed off.
MoviefoneAngie: ah, got it. don't go, nick! i loved you in 'shaun,' and in 'hot fuzz' you were hysterical. especially with the homoerotic stuff
HotFuzzNick: back
MoviefoneAngie: thank you
HotFuzzNick: there's more to me than zombies and gayness
HotFuzzSimon: Not much though eh?
HotFuzzNick: rugby
MoviefoneAngie: where'd you get the idea to spoof cop movies?
HotFuzzSimon: We don't like the word Spoof. It's a dirty word to us and all Australians.
HotFuzzSimon: Hot Fuzz is like a love letter
HotFuzzSimon: to all cop/action/buddy films
HotFuzzSimon: We don't get to make
HotFuzzSimon: those kind of movies
HotFuzzSimon: in the UK
HotFuzzSimon: So we thought it would be fun.
MoviefoneAngie: oh, no. now i've offended simon. so sorry
HotFuzzSimon: Rocket pack IGNITE!!!
MoviefoneAngie: it's a good thing you two don't really have rocket packs. i'd be SOL on an interview
HotFuzzSimon: How do you know we don't?
MoviefoneAngie: i am guessing, with great scientific logic to back me up, that you don't
MoviefoneAngie: i just read a review that said 'hot fuzz' is like 'bad boys II' meets 'midsomer murders'' -- i love 'midsomer murders'!
HotFuzzSimon: I love Bad Boys 2
HotFuzzNick: i love BB2
MoviefoneAngie: oh, see -- it's "the grass is always greener"; 'midsomer murders' is charming, foreign to me
HotFuzzSimon: BB2 is just so unpretentious.
HotFuzzSimon: It's not the best film ever made by a long, long way but it's soooooooo shameless.
HotFuzzSimon: I kinda respect that.
MoviefoneAngie: i don't disagree. it's not really a girl movie, though, so i guess i'll use that as my excuse
HotFuzzNick: thats no excuse
MoviefoneAngie: well, what about 'midsomer murders'? that's a fine murder series
HotFuzzNick: there's no one left in that village.
MoviefoneAngie: so, nick, do you have input into your characters? it seems like you do
HotFuzzNick: i do have input.
HotFuzzSimon has left the room.
HotFuzzNick: hey, simon has been cut off and we have to go anyway. sorry thanks for talking to us.
HotFuzzNick: goodbye...
MoviefoneAngie: ok. np. thank you. and thank simon for me! hope your first AIM interview was ok
HotFuzzNick: it was great thank you so much, simon says goodbye
HotFuzzNick has left the room.