There’s something inherently likable about Nick Frost. It often feels as though he’s not acting at all – just being himself. That may be because he wasn’t an actor at all until Simon Pegg cast him as his best mate Mike Watt in the much-loved sitcom Spaced, when Frost was working as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant in London. After bonding over a shared love of comedy, horror, Star Wars and video games, the pair became slacker flatmates as well as friends.
Their bromance soon continued on screen, with Frost playing slovenly best mate Ed to Pegg’s Shaun in Shaun of the Dead, followed by the guileless West Country police officer Danny Butterman opposite Pegg’s Nicholas Angel in Hot Fuzz. They reunited once more for the final instalment of their Cornetto trilogy, with Frost as teetotal lawyer Andy – childhood friend to Pegg’s Gary – in The World’s End. The pair also co-wrote and starred as British geeks on a US road trip with an alien in Paul, and later teamed up again for the criminally underrated Amazon series Truth Seekers.
