Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum - NICK FROST: Becoming HAGRID, the Collapse That Changed His Life & Reflections on Cornetto Trilogy

Episode Date: September 1, 2026

Nick Frost (Shaun of the Dead, How to Train Your Dragon) joins us this week for one of the most open and disarming conversations we have had. Nick opens up about the psychological collapse 6 years ago that completely rebuilt him and the version of himself he had to let go of. We also get into manifesting the role of Hagrid in the new Harry Potter series by writing the name 12,000 times, the hypervigilance that came from a violent childhood, losing 200 pounds, and why he is a better person on set than he is at home. Thank you to our sponsors: ❤️ This episode is sponsored by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at https://betterhelp.com/inside and get on your way to being your best self 🏈 Prize Picks: Visit https://prizepicks.onelink.me/LME0/INSIDE and use code INSIDE and get $150 if you win your first $5 lineup! 💖 Join Our Community: https://patreon.com/insideofyou __________________________________________________ 💖 Patreon: ⁠⁠https://www.patreon.com/insideofyou⁠⁠ 👕 Inside Of You Merch: ⁠⁠https://store.insideofyoupodcast.com/⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Watch or listen to more episodes! 📺 ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/show⁠⁠ __________________________________________________ Follow us online! 📸 Instagram: ⁠⁠https://instagram.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🤣 TikTok: ⁠⁠https://www.tiktok.com/@insideofyou_podcast⁠⁠ 📘 Facebook: ⁠⁠https://www.facebook.com/insideofyoupodcast/⁠⁠ 🐦 Twitter: ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/insideofyoupod⁠⁠ 🌐 Website: ⁠⁠https://www.insideofyoupodcast.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So go down the rabbit hole, check out other episodes. And I think you'll like it. I hope you do. What else, Ryan? Ryan's here. Ryan Tejas is here. I'm here. Yeah.

I don't know what else. What else? You good? I'm all right. Yeah. What else are we doing? Oh, well, we're just living, man. Yeah.

You know, it's been a, um, it's been a lot of weeks of traveling and doing cons and, you know, uh, I think when you get busy, you stop, you start to neglect your mental health and you're, you know, you don't listen to your body when you're on the road, you're eating badly or so I'm trying to get healthier. And I know when I eat healthier and I put things in my body that are healthier, I, I tend to run better. It's like an engine, right? You put crappy diesel in there.

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Um, also my Instagram at the Michael Rosenbaum. Uh, you want to follow me. I do the cameos and all that stuff. Got some cons coming up. Houston, uh, going to Houston con, going to the Nashville for the 25th anniversary, which hopefully Ryan's going to for Smallville, New York City Comic Con, um, and, uh, more. But, uh, it was great seeing everybody in Chicago and Boston and on the cruise. Thank you for all the well wishes and, uh, support.

And I want to give a quick shout out to my best friends, Andrea Flay. and Bill Worty. Their doggy Archer passed away, and I know he meant so much to them, and I love that sucker, and they were great parents, and you guys did everything he could, and I know it's hard, but I'm thinking about you, and that's all I wanted to say there. And, you know, I will mention Hayden. Hayden passed away. Yeah, those will be a couple weeks ago.

Yeah, and I didn't talk about it because we had already recorded, but I got to hang out with her quite a few times and there was an energy when you walked into the room she just lit up the room every all eyes ruined her she was fun she was a talented actress it's such a shame 36 years old and i just i want to throw out some love and you know to her family and i hope they uh you know hope they're okay because this is terrible i think the world was sort of shocked and i know i was so that um Today's episode, Nick Frost, we've got it. It's here for you. He's amazing. You're going to love this. Let's get inside Nick Frost. Where you get nervous for a role. Oh my God. I get panicked. Do you get anxiety? Yeah, I live with anxiety. What are you doing? I was just taking a live picture. I always get nervous, but that's fun. I look forward to it. Let's get everything out of today we can.

And how much time do you have left and how are you going to use it well? So come on now. We would have to do another inside of you. But actually, but that's kind of what you're doing, Michael. I mean, you're on this road, this journey of what's inside of you. Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum was not recorded in front of a live studio audience. How are you, man? You know, I haven't seen you for a while. You've been crazy.

You're always one of those guys that I just always adored where, you know, you check in on me. How are things going? You care. You're a person that you care about people. Well, I try to. right. It's, I think it's quite a nice thing just to make sure it doesn't take Rosenbaum. That came up. I mean, it doesn't take a second. Just drop a little text to say, hey, I'm thinking about you. You know, it's always got a few people that do that to me. And I'm always like, that was lovely.

That was nice. You know, we used to have a thing, a couple of my friends where we'd say, we'd just text each other in the morning, the first thing in the morning or whatever, after you eat or have coffee. and you say, hey, I'm grateful for something you're grateful for. Yeah. Anything. Hey, I'm grateful for, you know, waking up today to my dogs, you know, whatever. And it was just a nice thing that we kind of continued for a while. And I wish we would have kept that going. But it's kind of nice to just say, hey, I'm grateful for this because everybody talks about

gratitudes and how important it is to, especially when you're working a lot and you're doing all the stuff and you're caught up in it to just take a step back. Are you able to take a step back and sort of go, this is fucking. cool. I'm doing well. I'm very grateful. Look around me. Do you do that? Yeah, 100%. I think it's probably not wanting to sound like a cunty actor, but I think it's one of those kind of cornerstones of my life for like the last six years has been, everything is about gratitude, you know, and humility. And so, yeah, we do that sometimes on a Sunday. If we have Sunday lunch around the house, we go around the table to see what everyone's grateful for.

But, you know, Stoner, I think when you work, I've been working quite a lot the last couple of years. And it's, I think it sets a really nice tone on set if you're grateful for what everyone does on set and what they do for me personally. Do you think there's expectations from you, or not from you, but towards you in terms of like, Nick Frost, we're working with Nick Frost,

he's going to be fun, he's going to be funny, he's going to be on set, he's going to have all this energy. And do you feel like, like, fuck, I just want to just chill and save my energy. How do you deal with that? Honestly, I'm really quiet on set. I don't talk much.

I'm about the scene. Obviously, you know, there's always a little bit of banter that goes on and a story here and there. There's a constant dialogue with the crew and the camera team. What can I do to help you out here? You know, letting the focus puller know I'm going to be a foot. over my mark on this tape to see what that does. And I'm about the scene. That's it.

I work. I sit on my, I have a little Apple box. And they set me up next to the camera and I sit next to the camera. And that's where I am all day. Were you ever different? Were you ever like something changed in you where you're like, I can't have all this energy? Because you're the excitement of being on set when you're younger?

Yeah. Yeah. I think like about six and a half years ago. this thing happened to me, which I'm not going to say. And my life completely changed from that point. And I realized that the version of me that came on set at 100 miles an hour, like a fucking, like Chris Farley, singing and dancing, everyone's best mate, we're laughing.

You know, that was not compatible. with a healthy mental makeup anymore. It was just, it was too much. And so I think over the last few years, I've learned to save that, you know. And I love the work, you know. I love to try and be better every day and try and improve and generally make everyone's time around me on set

be a really nice one, you know. Yeah, do you think you're one of those actors who you're almost better off camera than you are on. Do you turn it up for the actors to give them everything you've got? I mean, much to my wife's kind of annoyance, and I'm sure my first wife, but, you know, I'm a better person when I'm on a set than when I'm at home.

You're happier on set? Not happier on set, but there's a world where I know what everyone says on set. Every word they say, I know what that means. I know what the, I know that in terms of it being, yes, it's chaos, but it's also exactly the same every single shot, you know, let's roll the cameras, sounds at speed, here we go, here we go, here we go, you know, everything leads to that point. I know, you know, none of that's a surprise to me,

but home is, home can be hard, you know, kids are hard, it's, relationships are hard, um, you know, you're allowed to come in a little, be a bit moody, you're allowed to be off your game or I would never turn up for work being fucking moody or miserable or, you know. On set, you know what's going to happen. You know how it goes. You know you're almost aware of, you know, you're comfortable because there's not things thrown at you for the most part that you're not, you can't understand or can't work out. But in the real life, you know, kids crying, this is going on. This is you're like, no one's a genius at that. No, no, fuck no. I mean, I'm constantly overstimulated.

Do you know what I mean? We just had like a bit of a tiff over a fucking punnet of strawberries. And that kind of knocked me over the edge, you know. This episode is sponsored by Better Help. You know, I love me some better help. Look, guys, if you go wake up tomorrow and be better at one thing, what would it be? Now, for me, I think it would be better at taking care of myself. I think I forget to take care of myself because I'm taking care of so many other people.

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So you're saying six years ago there's a, it was a completely, different person than there is now. Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent. Is that from therapy? Is that from learning to love yourself? What is that from? Just a psychological collapse, I guess, you know. And then from that point on, you know, moving forward and realizing that I'm all right,

you know, I'm a nice guy. I think I went through a lot of my life just, crushingly hating myself and just full of self-esteem shit. And, you know, I'm 54 now and you get to a point where you're like, this isn't compatible with life. You know, you're not going to, you can't live like this for the, I could live for another 25 years. Do you know what I mean?

It's so hard to take that step. I know it seems like, oh, all you have to do is take a step and, and try to change and want to change. But to get to that point, I think, you know, I've seen it myself. I've seen it with other friends. Sometimes, unfortunately, you have to hit rock bottom in a way. Yeah.

Before you decide to like, well, it's either death or I figure this out. I mean, plus I've had, you know, at the time I had three kids as well. And it's like, what, what are you doing, you know? What made you want to have another kid? Well, as I said, I'm 54 and it was like, I was saying to my, you know, you know, Haley, it's like, if we're going to do this, we, uh, we, uh, You know, I don't want to be like fucking Pacino or Mick Jagger. I don't want to be that kind of dad, you know.

My fucking kids keep me young, you know. I've got, I've got a six-month-old, one's four, one's eight, and I've got a big, big boy who's 15. And it's like, it's interesting that I can still, I don't feel like old at all in terms of being able to whiz these kids about, you know. Do you go to therapy still? Yeah. Is it part of like, is it part of you now that you can't,

I'm okay. I don't need any therapy for a while or do you consistently go? No, it's not a therapy of such. It's sitting with a group of like-minded humans discussing how we got to where we got to and how we got ourselves out of it. Yeah. It's good when you hear other people talking about it. It kind of makes you feel like you're not alone because, you know, my dad, we lost my sister like five years ago. She was only 16. And like, you know, my dad was like, I go, you know, I think maybe you should go to therapy. You should talk to me. Who do you?

Do you think anybody knows what it's like to lose a little girl like this? You think anybody knows how I feel? And I was like, I'm not trying to be a dick, but yeah, people lose their kids. People lose their families. And there are people out there. And I know from other friends who went to group therapy and just like talking to people who they can relate to can really help you and make you understand that you can get through this in a way. Yeah, absolutely. Did you notice the poster behind me?

I did, yeah. You like that? It's right there? I know. I signed it, right? Yeah, you signed it. I just said... I sat on it for months.

Well, you know what I said... It was you, you fuck. I knew it. No, I said to him, I said, I got a... I want to put a Sean of the Dead poster in here for sure. And then he sent one to me. And I was like, out of the blue signed by you guys. And I was like, that is the sweetest.

He is a sweet man, isn't he? Yeah, yeah, of course. Yeah, he's a beautiful man. Does he know you? you inside out? Does he know your darkest, the darkest nick and the lightest Nick? Yeah, of course. I mean, we've been best friends for 20, 30 years. You know, it's, uh, yeah, of course. Is he one of the first people you call if you're fucking feeling like, fuck, I, I, I'm not good. No, um, you know, I'm my wife, you know, she's my guy. She's my best

mate and she's the only, I mean, when you, you know, do you feel this that when you get old, because I used to have like hundreds of friends seemingly. And then now as a 54 year old, like, we're trying to arrange a little party, a little do for next year. And Haley's like, let me have your list. Let me get you a list of your friends and who you'll invite. And it was like four people. No, no.

Well, you know, it's like, you know, what it's like I'm not. I do. I'm happy being here with Haley. and my four kids and we put the kids to bed and me and Haley get into bed at 8 o'clock and we have a cup of tea and we watch some kind of shit.

We watch my 600 pound life. And that's it. That's my life. And I fucking love it. She's amazing too. She really is. I'm glad that I got to meet her because she really is amazing.

Yeah. You know? And I don't even know her that well, but I just remember meeting her and hanging out with her. And it's like she puts up with your shit and, you know, and she loves you unconditionally, and you can't beat that. No, agreed.

Yeah, I'm very. You know, you've talked about feeling a little loss before comedy found you and all that. What do you think Nick Frost would realistically be doing right now if acting never happened? Honestly, artist? I don't know. I always wanted to be a novelist. I wrote a book when I was, when I was 22. I always wanted to be a novelist.

I wanted to write novels. But I was terrible. I couldn't write. I can't read very well. I'm really dyslexic and I could never really get it going. And I just, honest to God, my brain isn't like, I never, even when I was like 30 and I just acted in space. And I never had an idea of anything. I never thought about the future at all.

You aren't secretly ambitious or anything before all the success, like, you know, or are you just surviving and having fun? Yeah, I was a really good waiter. I was a great waiter and I made a lot of money relatively like British, you know, I know in America, weights can earn a lot, lot of money. But, you know, relatively here on like a Saturday night, I could make a hundred pound in tips. And it was like, a fucking hundred pound. Let's go and eat a curry and buy some weed. and get fucking hammered for the whole weekend. You know, it was, that was it.

I was pleased with that. I was happy. I mean, I was still a waiter. So I did the first season of space. I've never wanted to act. Simon convinced me to do space. So I did that. And then I got paid.

I mean, when you look back now, it's like, is that what you fucking got? But I got paid like, maybe nine grand, I think, for the series. It was 25 years ago, you know. And then, you know. obviously I didn't know what tax was and didn't realize you'd get taxed on that and I literally burned through that money in

six weeks and I just fucking blew it and then I'm like, again, I didn't realize that it takes like a year to edit a show and to go out. I just thought, well, that's it. My life is now I'm going to do this. Yeah. You know, and then like six weeks later and I've fucking got no money, you know.

And I had to go back to the waiter in. So I went back to waiter in for a year and a half, two years, you know. What kind of waiter were you? I think because of my, like, autism, ADHD thing, I've got that quite good ability to, like, look at people and kind of know exactly what kind of service they would need, you know. And so I'd be a chameleon and be different for each, you know, I'd give you a, like a, what's the,

word like a I would build a service for you from the ground up and like if you're a geeseer I'd be a geeseer if you were girls I'd be charming Did you ever lose your shit while you're a waiter? I went out once and I took a 50

this guy really rude bloke could he'd tip me 50 pence and I went out at the back door of the restaurant because I'd seen him pull up in this murk and I took the 50 Pence and I scratched the fuck out of his paintwork. Yeah, he went out. It was fucking livid. He didn't know it was me. He couldn't prove it was me. Inside of you is brought to you by

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win your first $5 lineup. Prize picks run your game. Tell me something about early fame. that nobody prepares for you emotionally. Well, all right. Well, look, I just, I guess, being coming from a working class person and never wanting to be an actor,

you know, when you, when you become slightly famous and, you know, I lived a traumatic life as a child and as a young man, um, a violent life, you know, not, not me personally being violent,

but being around violence and, and, you know, having violence done toward me, when you go into a pub and people turn to look at you, men turn to look at you because they've seen you on telly, the thing in my brain that tells me, hey, these fucking men are looking at us now. you know, that fight, I'm just constantly in a weird fight or flight mode. Wow.

You know what? They're just looking because they saw you on fucking telly. They're not going to beat us up. They're not going to try and stab us. You know, they're just people. Yeah. You know, I've got, you know, hypervigilance disorder. So as soon as people start looking, I'm like, well, fuck, how am I going to fight this guy?

How am I going to get out of here? You know what I mean? Yeah. I become like a Jason Bourne character. I'm like, right. So I'll do that. and then this guy's eating this and I'll throw that in his face and I'll use the plate to battering to death and then I'll escape through here. You know, it's funny.

I bet you have the same thing I do. I don't know what it is, but I can sense danger from a mile away. I could be in a bar and go, we got to go. And they're like, what are you talking about? I'm like, nope, nope, there's something. There's these guys over there just walked in. I don't feel comfortable. Let's get out of here.

Yeah, agreed. Yeah. What is that? What's that thing in our brain? It's, well, because, because as a child, you and I and other people have lived a traumatic lifestyle. So our brains are constantly in a mode of fight or flight. So it's called hypervigilance disorder. It's a thing.

It's because you've been brought up around, you know, a traumatic family or, you know, that you develop a really keen, sharp sense of danger. Yeah. Holy shit. is the thing in our brains that, you know, two or 300, four, five hundred years ago, you'd sense that there's a wolf in the village. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. Look, you've played like the most lovable characters for so long, but a lot of times there's like this underneath, this, you know, this sadness underneath some of these characters. Do you naturally gravitate towards characters that are melancholy or

something deeper, something sad? No, I don't know. I don't think I've been fortunate enough to, you know, my career hasn't were like that where I've got, here's a bunch of scripts, pick one, you know, you're crem de la creme, you get to choose what scripts. Yeah. Script comes in, okay, well, I like this guy.

I could make that work. Yeah, sure, you know, let's do it. I've got six weeks. Let's do it, you know. And then I think, I think subconsciously, I think there's a lot of, I think a lot of my characters have, what's the word like?

Not they're empathetic, but they're vulnerable, you know, I think I bring a certain amount, vulnerability to character, but people like, you know, I think,

I don't know, I mean, I've read that, you know, you read that thing saying, oh, he's a very naturalistic actor, or blah, blah, but it's like,

well, I just think you have to bring, even if it's just one percent of you, yourself into a character you're playing, then that character becomes a human being. And then other humans can relate to that human being, you know. Yeah, I was the same. You know, I'm the same way. I think that, you know, if you're playing a villain, like, I played a villain for so long. And, you know, I could just roll my, you know, twirl my mustache and although I was hairless. But, you know, you could, you could just play into it or you could make it more dynamic by making him real and

making him vulnerable and making certain things. And it always works. If you add that part of it, like no one wants to see the killer. They want to see, but they want to feel for him and feel bad that they feel for him. Yeah. Have you ever watched that German film Downfall about the last few weeks of Hitler? I think I did. Was that like from the 80s?

Yeah, maybe in the 90s. This German actor called Bruno Gantz plays Hitler. Yes. He's like really big and amazing, right? Yeah. But in that, you know, that film does that amazing thing where at times you think, oh, poor old Hitler. Do you know what I mean? And that's the vulnerability of that actor bringing that alive.

You shouldn't think poor old Hitler. You should think, fuck that guy. But there's a, he shows that, you know, sometimes Hitler just sat down at a bowl of soup and felt shit because he's lost the war. It's like, you know what I mean? It's like, amazing. How did that act to do that? Yeah, and decide to do that. You see that guy as human then, and you shouldn't.

Yeah, exactly. That's, uh, what's the closest you've ever come from walking away from acting entirely? Like, just been like, fuck this. I don't really want to do this. Never. I just, I, because I'm lucky because I don't just act. It's like, well, I'll write. I write a book.

I'm an artist. I've got an art exhibition coming out. I cook. It's like, I just see acting because I produce as well and, and, and write film. like I don't ever see it just as one thing. You know, acting is part of the things I need to be creative every day, you know. But, you know, it took me a long, long time to utterly fall in love with it and say, this is what I want to do. You know, I was, I was embarrassed to do it, you know, if I'm honest, I was a bit ashamed of it. Because why? Because

you didn't think you were worthy? No, coming from a working class background. There were people that I knew that they'd look at that and think, what a fucking who the fuck, oozy think he is. You know what I mean? Yeah. And then you get to a point in your 30s and 40s when you're married with kids,

you think, I don't give a shit. Plus, I love doing this. I'm pretty good at it, you know. But I was, I would be constantly just crippled by anxiety and fear of being on a set and having to learn fucking dialogue. And, you know, it's off, even now, even like the first day of how to drain your dragon two in, in January and like Potter and I'm up all night. And I'm sick. I'm violently sick.

And I'm fucking terrified. And I'm literally shitting myself. Really? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. And if I've got like, even within that schedule, if I've got a day where I've got a big five or six page scene first up, I'm fucking up all night. I'm sick. I need to make sure I can smash this, you know.

So I prepare a lot. I mean, every day I probably do between three and four hours of line learning, you know, not just for the thing I'm doing now, but for scenes four weeks in advance. And I just put that effort in. I love to make, I love it. I love that process. You know, I think that in itself has kind of saved me as well. So you swear to God, swear to God, Nick, that you really,

get sick and really get nervous and freaking out and have all this fear in you. You have riddled with it and you're like, like, can I do this? You still feel that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, often before a take, I'll say to myself, come on, you can do it. You can do this. You know, come on, you can do it.

Because I never want to be in a position where there's a version of me saying, this will be fucking easy. because I feel like it's at that point I'll fuck it up you know I don't ever want to do that but yeah I'm sick I get sick a lot

I get terrified but there's a thing in me where I say to myself you know usually the process you know this you know we'll get onto set and then the director invites you on or the first AD invites you on you get into a little huddle

you have a little chat some bullshit bullshit it, a few little gags. And then the director will say, okay, so look, let's just talk the words. Let's just get a sense of the scene. You'll talk it through. And then the director's like, okay, so I think the scene will look like this. Let's stage it.

And you'll say, oh, but I kind of thought I'd be here. I'd like to be here. And, you know, between yourself and the director and the DOP, usually you fine tune what that scene will look like. Then you do a version of it with a dialogue. and then they say, all right, guys, well, are we in a good place?

Can we show this to the crew? Yeah. And you're like, oh, yeah, sure. And then the crew come on. The whole crew gets on. And then you have to do a rehearsal in front of the whole crew. Now, I say to myself, if you can get through this

without fucking it up, you're fine. And 99 times out of 100, it's fucking great. And then there's a thing in me that says, you did it. and then that's it. The nerves are then gone and they won't come back.

That is so interesting. So it's almost like it's, what do they call it, dress rehearsal. You know, it's like a dress rehearsal with all the crew and you're like, you're performing now. Stay focused. You know this shit and you do it without any hiccups. And you're like, I nailed this in front of this crew. Now I got it.

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the fear of cancer. Register today at pmcf walk.ca. When did you first hear about the possibility of playing Hagrid? Well, I've got an American manager in that, Tom, lovely Tom Drum. And I think, I think Haley was like, oh, they're going to do an adaptation of Potter. I'm like, oh, oh, brilliant. And then, you know, we were like, oh, you know, you'd be good, good Hagrid. And what I was, you know, I sent an email to Tom saying, are they doing this? And he was like, yeah, but they're nowhere near casting. And it kind of went on, we did that for a little while, you know. And then I had a meeting and they were like, listen,

Hagrid's off the table, but there's loads of nice parts. And, you know, sometimes when you have a lovely meeting with a producer, you were like, that was great. You know, that, sometimes that, that, that, that, meeting was payment enough. Do you know what I mean? Yeah. You have like a little thing we drank tea and we laughed a lot and it was like, I've just sat for an hour with a like-minded person and we've had a laugh and we've got on and I feel like that was nice, you know. Yeah. That's a nice feeling, you know, when you walk out of a meeting like that. I never necessarily feel like it's going to

lead to employment or anything more. You know, sometimes that's enough. But yeah, she was like, you know, there's loads and nice parts and we'll bear you in mind. I was like, this is great. And that was it, you know, for like a year, it had gone. You forgot about it. He did forget about it. And then I got a phone call like last year from my lovely agent say, do you want to go in and have a little chat about Hagrid?

Hagrid's now become available again. I was like, yeah, of course. Of course I do. And then we had a, you know, I went in and we had a lovely chat and a cup of tea. and then they asked me to do a bit of a reading. And they did a thing too. They said, would you come on cast? I'm like, yeah, definitely.

And so they did a thing. So I've never learned lines for a casting. You know, I've never learned a scene. I just read. It's so hard, yeah. That's probably why I've never got anything from a casting, really, because I never really gave enough of the shit. Yeah, what is that?

By the way, you know what I think that is? It's like, if I have a role, I'm putting my whole life into it. I'm putting everything to it. But if it's like everybody's reading for this and stuff, there's some part of me that's just like, it's not mine. I'm probably not going to get it.

I don't know what it is. If I'm allowed to read it, I'm going to read it, you know. But I had like a three-page scene, and they're like, we'd love you to be off page for that. I'm like, yeah, great. So I learned it. I learned the scene and we did it. And I had like four or five castings.

And I went from not wanting it to wanting it a little bit to really wanting it. And then like that three weeks between castings, I'm like, well, fuck, that's it. Nah, they would have phone me by now. Yeah. You know what I mean? Nah, I haven't got it. They don't call me right away. It's fucking done.

I haven't got it. Me and Haley were staying in a hotel overnight and I said to her, if I've got Hagrid, when we turn the telly on, the first thing we see will be Hagrid. I put the telly on. Harry Potter was on the fucking telly. And the first thing we saw was Hagrid. No, stop it. Honest to God.

Honest to God. I was writing at the time. I was writing a film. And so my brain switched to a place where I stopped writing the film. And all I wrote for probably four hours a day was the word Hagrid in a notebook. That's all I did. Wow. In the end, I wrote Hagrid about 12,000 times.

But obviously being dyslexic, when I read, I realized the last 3,000, I've been writing the word Hadridge. So I kind of like manifested the role of Hagrid. And I'm still waiting to hear whether or not I've got Hadridge. You know, even that, even getting this part, I think what, I think I got a real boost in self-esteem after I got how to train your dragon. Do you know what I mean? Also like with you and something like Smallville, right?

You know for a fact that a lot of people. have to say yes before you get that part. Yeah. A lot of people have to say yes. And, you know, even down to like Donna Langley at Universal, it's like, she said yes. And that made me feel so good. And really gave me a bit of Vim, a bit of pep in my step, you know. Yeah.

And then again, with Potter, because it's, it's just amazing. I mean, I've loved it. I love it. It's an amazing job. You love Hagrid, the character. Yeah. How do you not? I love all the crew.

love the bloody directors, the writer. It's just, it's been so nice, you know. And it's, again, this is, it comes back to being grateful. And, but there are times, it doesn't, now I've been done a whole, like, seasonal mode. It's like, I'll go to the bathroom at night, and I come back and I stop and I say, you know, I'm fucking Hagrid. And I go back to bed, you know what I mean? Or I'll be doing, I'm in the car. I'm like, you're fucking Hagrid. You know, it doesn't, it's not like it sunk in yet, you know. Do you say it to Haley? Do you say, I'm, fucking Hagrid.

Fucking Hagrid. You know, I'm Hagrid, right? I love it. Was there excitement or, I mean, obviously excitement, but was there a lot of terror? Did you shit your pants again the night before? Yeah. You know, it's, it's, you're the best, you know, I've met Mark Milod, who's the director and showrunner and, you know, exec. And he, do you know, when you meet a director sometimes?

and you think, I would fucking stand by you in a war right now. Yeah, yeah. I would pick you up and I would fucking drag you back to my trench. I just met him and I was like, yeah, what do you need? You know, so the chance to work with that with Mark and the other direct, you know, it's just excited. So great. Literally every department is just fucking here.

You know, they're amazing. It's like, you know, when you sometimes do. like a low budget indie horror, right? Either there's a group, there's a young, there's a young core who are on the way up, or there's really old bitter people who are on the way down, you know,

and that's, you're somewhere in between. But this, it's like, everyone's fucking amazing, you know. Everything's elevated. Everything.

Yeah. You can't, you can't come on set with anything less than 100% because, you know, the focus pull is fucking amazing. The grip is. is incredible. Costume is incredible.

Hair and makeup are incredible. You know, it's everyone. Everyone is just like, what, that was fucking great. A lot of the time after I finish, I say to someone from the crew, that was fucking great today, watching you, well, you know.

What do you think of Robbie Coltrane's performance? Yeah, I mean, yeah, Robbie's incredible. It's, it's been a nice, I know, I kind of know, I don't know them. You know, my best mate, Danny, his friends were Robbie's family and apparently

Robbie was a fan of mine and they're all they all kind of gave me a spiritual thumbs up like me would have loved it he's so happy that we're so happy that you got it

and you know I want to kind of pay tribute to what Robbie did you know I want to honour what he did and I'm also you know quite aware that I get a chance where Robbie didn't. Obviously he had like a two and a half hour movie and he had that. But I have, I have eight hours to develop Hagrid, you know, a season. So I'm really lucky that I get a chance

to give people, here's some Robbie, and here's bonus Hagrid, you know, his other Hagrid's. Do you know what I mean? I'm really lucky. I'm so happy that I get a chance to do that, you know. Yeah, and you don't feel any pressure because millions of people. They, this is, They expect something. You don't feel that. Because you know what? I'll let you answer in a second. But even when I did Lex Luthor, I didn't, again, I didn't really watch all the Superman stuff.

I didn't really. So I just was like, I'm going to be real. I'm going to do it my way. I'm going to. I just was like, you know, I got to be me. They hired me. Yeah. I mean, I can't.

I'm not responsible for people's expectations of what I should do. That's not my business, you know. Yeah. I can only give, and I'm fully aware, you know, some people like it. Some people hate it. And that's fine. That's how that is, you know. It's not, but that's not my business or my problem, you know.

I can only do, you know, obviously my remit is what Robbie did, Hagrid in the book, and then, you know, a sprinkle of magic fried gold dust. Magic fried gold dust. That's pretty good. Did you reread all the books, obviously? And did you, you didn't? Have you ever read the books? I have, but again, being dyslexic, it's really difficult for me.

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Raj says, tell me about a time you made lemonade out of lemons, life was throwing at you. Honestly, probably everything I've ever done. Do you know what I mean? I mean, until you get to a certain point. But just, I don't know, lemon, I've always, I don't know, I've always tried to, I hate that same, but try and make the point. best of it, you know, that's a very British thing. Let's just, let's just make the best of it, you know, like rainy day on the beach. Let's just make the best of it. It's fine. At least we've got

each other, you know, that kind of shit. You know, I read something where this one guy said, when things come at you, like these shitty things in life, your car broke down, whatever it is. You approach it differently. Just go, fuck yeah. All right, cool. This is good. This is good. Yeah, how are we going to fix this? Let's turn it into a positive. Like, it seems hard, But if you could do that with all the shit, you won't take things as seriously. You know, I think I'm always searching for the answer of like how to make things easier, how to not get in my head, how to not worry so much, how to not be defensive, how to not, I don't know, how have you done it?

Well, just saying not being in your own head all the time is if you can do that, I think that's probably a little trick. You know, I think that's always a good thing to get out of your head, you know. Lower him, you know, my expectations of people, you know, just getting out of my head's a good idea. Elizabeth R says, what's a franchise you'd say YARP to, but privately think NARP? If there was a close encounters like TV show maybe, I'd say YARP because I love close encounters the film, but then I'd be like, do we really need it? That was talk of one point where there was a potential. to do like a Paul series. Oh.

And I was like, that would have been good. It was like 20 years ago. But then now in hindsight, I'm like, I'm glad it. I'm glad it to know. Don G. says, what makes you laugh? If I can make my wife really laugh, then her laughing sets me off. I like that. Sometimes it's shit on Instagram where it's like, it's a stupid shit with cats,

you know what I mean? Or someone falling over or... sometimes seeing what the people eat on my 600 pound life. That makes me laugh like, laugh like fucking, you know. I don't laugh as much as I used to. I think that's just a thing of getting old as well. Yeah. When I was in my 20s, I was laughing all the time.

I think you're right. My friend had an agent who he would pitch something to, and the guy must have run out of laughs in life. Because he would say to him, he say, all right, and here's the pitch. And then this happens. And then he'd stop. He'd look at him. And the guy goes, I'm on.

the floor. And he goes, what? You don't like it? He goes, no, I think it's great. I'm on the floor. It's really funny. No laughing. Just, I'm on the floor. When I worked in LA, I did a pilot. I did pilot season once. And me and Justin Long were going to get a show away. Justin, love him. I love him. And that was the first time. That was probably 10 years ago as well. And that was the first time where I realized there was like a high level of psychopathy among studio executives, you know, when they've got own little monitor around the back and you walk past them and they're like, that was very funny. Oh my

God, that was so funny. Very funny. Show the emotion. You have to tell me what emotion you're feeling. Just do it. Yeah. Like if you're going to say something, just go, that was really great. Instead of like, that was great. Little Lisa says, in your humble opinion,

what is your best quality? I think I could have given up a lot along the way, but I didn't give up. You know, I think I kept fighting, you know, and at this point so far, touch wood, it, it works, you know, I think not giving up. That's awesome. I would also say you genuinely care about people. I think you do. Yeah, I mean, I like, yeah, I do. I like to, you know. Linda M., what biscuit do you most identify with? I like very much, this is not about what I like, but I eat a lot of digestives. Really?

We have a lot of digestives in the house, yeah. And I think the digestive, it's quite plain on the outside. It holds the tea well. It's a wonderful dunking biscuit. And it tastes nice. Monica Tea, any plans for a space reunion? No, none. Sorry, I wish I had a funny answer.

The answer is no. I love this. So are you done with Harry Potter for the year? Yeah. Is it pretty tough schedule? No, I just, I loved it. I love it. You know, I don't, I'm happy to go and work five days a week,

be in from Hot Bus 5 and Rappers, you know, it doesn't. You don't mind working 12, 14 hours. You don't, you're not exhausted? Yeah, I mean, if you do that for kind of three weeks on the trot, I'm starting to tire slightly. But, you know what it's like doing this kind of show. you know, it's not the Harry Potter. I mean, it's not the Hagrid film.

It's, you know, we shoot my bits. You have a few days off. You shoot something else. You have a couple of days off. Then you work for two weeks. Then you, you know, it's a really nice kind of schedule if you have lots of children, you know, because you can, there's a lot of time when I'm taking the kids to school and picking them up. We're going to scouts.

We're going to football. You know, it's, it's really conducive. to have a family with it, you know. Yeah, what's, what's it? How much time are you in the wardrobe and hair and makeup? A couple of hours. And you're there first, right? Probably there five in the morning.

Yeah, but I don't, I like getting up early, you know. I never have a problem getting up at 4 a.m. It's, it's like, let's go, you know. Yeah. And you've lost a shit ton of weight. Like 200 pounds. 200 pounds? Yeah.

Yeah. I mean, could you have done this Haggard roll? if you were 100 or 200 pounds heavier? I don't know. I'm not sure I would have got it, you know. I don't know. That is amazing. How do you like eat healthy consistently for the most part?

Or do you kind of bounce back? You know, I'm never not going to have a fucking bit of cake or a digestive. It just, that doesn't work for me. But what I can't do is take the whole cake and get in the car and then drive down by the river at nighttime with the lights off. just eat the whole thing. You know, that's when I realized that I was treating food has probably been the longest addiction in my life. You know, I was addicted to food as a child and it was a way of getting myself out of a horrible

fucking home life as a child, you know, so I used to eat secretly. Yeah. And then a couple of years ago, I'm like, you know, I'm not doing any of these things anymore. But what I am doing is I'm lying to my family And I'm going to buy 10 candy bars And fucking secretly eating that It's like once I realized I'm using food as an addiction

Yeah I've just transferred what my primary was From from XYZ to this, you know And I was like, oh, you're fucking idiot You know what I mean? Yeah And it became really not easy It's been fucking two, three years hard grower

But, you know, raising my expectations, lowering my expectations of myself in terms of, well, I'm going to have a digestive and not beat yourself up about it. But also be really honest in terms of I shouldn't have eaten that or being saying, I did this, you know, it became a bit easier, you know. I was the opposite of as a kid. I was always the skinny runt. But my parents, my dad always said after dinner, the kitchen's closed. You weren't allowed to go in the kitchen.

So after 5 o'clock, you nothing. So my brother and I used to like army, like in the army, like infantry, like crawling on the ground. You know, when my dad's watching TV in the other room trying to sneak into the cabinet and try to grab a bag of chips or a brownie. So I was always like trying. All right, this is the last question. Looking back now, what's seen from the Cornetto trilogy means the most to you emotionally? Sean of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, The World's End. And did fans name that, name it that?

I think an American journalist named it that. Oh. When we were doing the press tour for Hot Fuzz, I think, I'm maybe not sure. I don't know, a lot of the stuff we did in World's End has a kind of emotional resonance because, you know, Simon and I had both varying different times kind of suffered from. from, you know, drinking addiction issue. So, you know, some of those things were fairly real, you know. Yeah.

Lastly, what's coming up next? Besides, obviously, the biggest Harry Potter. When is that coming out? Sometime over Christmas, I think. Over Christmas. I'm not sure how they're releasing it. Holy shit. Your lines are going to be huge at these cons now, man.

Right? Oh, my God. You won't even have time to talk to me. I'll be like, Nick, he's like, hey, me. I'll always make time. You always make time. You nudge my hand or they go, no, no, no, not my. Yeah, I guess being in How to Train Your Dragon and Potter, and then I was SM 33 in the Star Wars world.

I'm ticking a lot of boxes in terms of maybe having, you know, in 10 years when Potter finishes, I can have a little life and you and me can hang out in like Atlanta or Sydney and do some cons together and eat dinner. I'd love it. Are you home for a while now? Yeah. I mean, you know, Potter is shot in London and this is where I am, yeah. I love it. This has been great.

Thank you for taking the time. I never wake up this early. I didn't shower. Nothing. Thank you for having me. I love you, mate. I love you, mate. I'll see you later.

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