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Dom Robinson interviews

Edgar Wright

Spaced Series 2 The following is an interview with Edgar Wright, director of the successful Channel 4 comedy, Spaced.

A review of the DVD is online and linked below. It is available now for £19.99.

  • 1. Who are you?
      My name is Edgar Wright, I am 27 years of age and was brought up in the wilds of Somerset.
  • 2. What made you get involved with Spaced and how long had you known Simon Pegg or any other principal cast members before Spaced began filming.
      I got involved with Spaced, because I had worked with Simon and Jessica six years ago on a programme called 'Asylum'. This was a little-seen black comedy on the Paramount Comedy Channel about a psychological experiment gone awry. Although the content was completely different, the visual style was similar to what Spaced would become. Simon and Jessica were so great together in the show, that it was suggested that they develop a show together and all credit to them, they wanted me involved from day one.

      This meant that I got to read the project from the infancy of its first drafts. Plus, the great thing about having worked with Simon and Jessica before was that, when we finally got to shoot the series, we hit the ground running.

    • Edgar Wright
  • 3. What is favourite recollection of working with the cast on Spaced?
      My favourite memory of the show was probably the repartee with the cast. Both series were extraordinarily ambitious, so it was great to have a group of actors who will all go above and beyond the call of duty to make the show work.

      Also Nick Frost, who plays Mike, is possibly one of the funniest mofos I know.

  • 4. How did you first get started in this industry?
      I got started in this industry as a teenager in some respects. By a series of flukes and happy accidents, I've been lucky enough to go straight into directing since college. I spent the best part of my school and college years, making shorts and mini-epics on Super 8 and video. I would shoot, edit, direct and produce these films starring my schoolfriends, then show them locally and sell them on video. They were usually action spoofs or Westerns.

      The culmination of all this was a no-budget 16mm film I made in my home town called 'A Fistful Of Fingers'. It was a Somerset-set western, starred all my school friends and was very, very silly. Can't say that it set the world alight, but it did bring me to London and get me signed on at a London agency.

      I also got my first proper television job, as Matt Lucas and David Walliams (of Rock Profiles fame) asked me to do their first sketch show on cable.

  • 5. Which has been your favourite TV/film-making experience and why?
      My favourite TV experience has been Spaced. It was very tough and had a pretty low budget considering, but in some respects it allowed my imagination to run riot. I've never directed another show which has let me indulge quite so many boyhood dreams. I have been utterly spoilt by the show!

    • Edgar Wright

  • 6. How much were you involved with the supplemental material that appears on the DVD?
      I was very involved in the DVD of the series. We had many, many ideas about what we wanted on the disc, being big fans of the format. In some respects this informed the editing of the second series. Cutting a nice joke or major sequence didn't feel quite so bad knowing that it could see the light of day as a 'Deleted Scene'.

      For the second series, I personally spooled through 3 days of rushes to find all the out-takes, created the entire homage-o-meter and commissioned the new artwork and new music.

      Also me, Simon and Jess wrote the biographies, which is always fun. In total, the second disc took almost a year to create and it's a testament to the enthusiasm of VCI and Pavement (the menu designers) that it looks as good as it does.

  • 7. One thing I'm pleased about is that Spaced will be uncut and uninterrupted. What did you think of Channel 4's treatment of the second series (eg. squashing up end credits, talking over them and in the closing Empire Strikes Back spoof, the continuity announcer annoying everyone by trying to impersonate Yoda over the top!?)
      It was pretty annoying. I had the credits being squashed and the continuity guy talking over them. However in some ways, it was our own fault as the latter episodes of the second series were very overlong. On a commercial station, it's frowned upon, especially at 9:30 on a Friday!

      We had to slightly concede that the continuity guy was going to waffle all over the end of the Empire Strikes Back ending to Episode 6.

  • 8. Is there any chance of a third series of Spaced?
      One would hope so. It's an all consuming enterprise Spaced and we all needed a rest after series two. However, I would not rule out wanting to do a third and make it the biggest and best.

    • Interview copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2002

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