I still feel that we need to be pulled up to speed aboutSnow White and the Huntsman.
We only saw half an hour of clips from the film…
Which is 26 minutes more than Ive seen, by the way…
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…and only one scene with the dwarves.
But we saw epic battles, monsters and more than mild peril.
So is this quite a radical reworking of Snow White?
And I think Ruperts kind of gone back to that.
It seems theres quite a bit of grime and mud, from what we saw.
Theres a lot of that.
I think thats when the dwarves will come into their own.
So theyre definitely angry dwarves this time out?
Oh my god, yeah, theyre angry.
Theres a lot of anger.
Were factioned into the half that trusts talls, and the other half that hates talls.
I think weve just been solidly been fucked over by the queen, and weve lost everything.
Weve spent a lot of time in the run up to the film talking about it.
Potentially, there were thousands of happy dwarves, mining and finding gold.
Now they hate everyone.
But no dwarf women, thats a shame, no dwarf women left.
Maybe something for the sequel, then?
No, it would be great to get a dwarf chicken!
But you have such a great line-up of gruff, British men as the dwarves.
Whod be the female dwarf?
I think shed be a great, great gruff dwarf female.
And now theresSnow White and the Huntsman.
In terms of Snow White, I think its the 75th anniversary of Disneys release, isnt it?
I think thats why theres been a glut of Snow White stories.
Classy and frightening and dark, or glossy or whichever Snow White camp youre in.
This is the thing!
Rather than find some good original material and take a chance on it.
Most of those films look quite ropey now.
But now we can get some of the best British actors and shrink them down into dwarf form.
Was it all CGI?
We had a lot of different processes.
A lot of the time, there were doubles of us.
We went to dwarf college as well, and we spent three weeks with our little selves.
Theyre not dwarves, either, theyre just short people.
Lewis, who was my double, we had to learn to walk like each other.
So in the wide shots, you wouldnt think thats not Nick Frost!.
So they did a lot of the wide work, a lot of the battle work.
But they also did a lot of in-camera stuff, which I really liked.
So, then, the little guys would come in, and do the stunts.
They worked, like, twice or three times harder than us.
They did all the battles, most of the big fight scenes.
They worked hard, and they had to do it all with a mask on.
Thats while youre in your trailer, relaxing…
Yeah!
[laughs] We had to share a trailer with our…
Really?
We didnt, Im joking.
[laughs, adopts affected, diva voice] I dont share a trailer!
Whats that journey been like?
I dont think about it.
Its just a job.
You just get more opportunities.
If Steven Spielberg approaches you and says would you like to be Thomson in my film?
Im going to say yes, every day of the week!
Yeah, I love that.
Absolutely, Ill do it.
Do you tick off genres?
Is there one youve not done that youd like to do?
Id do a war film, you know.
Id do a British war film.
I think, in the 50s and 60s we were great at war films, thats what we did.
And we dont really do them any more.
Look atThe Hurt Locker, for instance.
We could do aHurt Locker.
So a contemporary film, looking at more recent conflicts?
And we dont do it.
And I dont know why we dont do it.
Id like to do a war film.
I always think I could play a fantastic psychopath.
[laughs] Id like to play a psycho.
With a heart, you know.
Its now been a year sincePaulcame out.
Do you have any reflections on that film?
It seemed to do quite well.
I think its final box office was a little over $100 million, which is fantastic.
Its tricky, isnt it?
How do you class if a films done well?
And, you know what.
I love Twitter, Im on Twitter quite a lot.
And I probably get hundreds of tweets, from people saying Just watched Paul for the thirtieth time.
Ive been fortunate to have been inShaun of The DeadandHot FuzzandPaul.
They are three films that people love to watch over and over again.
I think thats probably more satisfying for me than what it did or didnt do at the box office.
Have you had much time to think about the next project?
Youre going to get, unfortunately, one of those shitty actors secret answers.
Were at that point where we literally cant say anything about them.
The project with Simon is the third Cornetto movie…
That isThe Worlds End, yeah.
And the other two youre developing on your own?
And you cant tell us anything about them?
Heres an idea Ive had… And theyll say yeah, lets do it!.
Nick Frost, thank you very much!
