Spaced at 21: Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright, Jessica Hynes and co on their cult sitcom | BFI Q&A
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- This year marks the 21st anniversary of Spaced, the hilarious TV show that followed the adventures of flatmates Daisy Steiner and Tim Bisley - a goldmine for all pop-culture fans. Across two series, Spaced pushed genre boundaries and helped put a new generation of acting, writing and directing talent on the map.
Here the show's writers and stars, Simon Pegg and Jessica Hynes, its director, Edgar Wright and cast and crew including Mark Heap and Reece Shearsmith, talk about making the show.
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"Why did you leave your last job?"
"Uh, I got fired."
"Why?"
"Just difference of opinion..."
"... The Phantom Menace?"
".......... Yeah."
"Didn't you like it?"
".......... No."
"Well. Leave this with me, and I'll get you some money out in the next few days."
"So do you like my comic?"
"Yeaah... yeaah... oh that reminds me i was talking to Marsha about the rubbish..."
Bloody hell
i know Im kind of off topic but do anybody know of a good website to stream newly released tv shows online?
@Brooks Jalen Try Flixzone. Just search on google for it =)
"Whats the deal with Marsha?"
"What you doing in Sheffield?"
"I fell asleep on the tube"
"Tube doesnt go to Sheffield"
"I know, I must have changed at Kings Cross"
"You know about the deal?!"
Mark Heap is a silent beautiful genius
Best actor in the cast
shalommmmmmmm
Cant be fun changingso dramaticall in the looks dept
It’s a bit more complicated than that…😂
Like sausages.
Nira Park is an unsung hero, she's a producer on all Wright's films plus a bunch of other stuff including Attack the Block and Sightseers. Props.
Yeah, amazing producer with a great eye for talent.
I though Attack The Block was by Joe Cornish.
@@canturgan Joe Cornish was writer and director, Nira Park was a producer, like George said. She also produced on Baby Driver.
Good call George. Directors and Stars usually get the credit, but you can see from this how important Nira was to Spaced, and she deserves admiration, praise, and tremendous respect for that alone - what a stunning piece of work it was, from every angle.
@@canturgan yes, what I meant was that she's done cool stuff with other people too! She's also a producer on Cornish's The Kid Who Would Be King.
and Black Books! Still got a loyal band of fans.
I liked it when they went back to "The House" several years after the last episode, and some fans just happened to be visiting that day. Seeing Tim and Daisy walk out the front gate must have been trippy..
Just watched that on the dvd extras
"i see it as a tribute to Christo, the artist"
"I see it as more a waste of baco, the foil"
This show was the best. Having only been able to see it from across the pond (Canada) years after it had been out it still felt like a revelation. Having just been in the U.K. I took a special trip in the cold to the spaced house just to see it for myself. One of the best shows ever.
It also portrayed a caricature of our lifestyles at the time, almost everybody in their 20s looked at every scene and said, "that's us, we do this"
Twas indeed a special time.
Have you seen Black Books?
What year did Canada get it ? In Australia we got it maybe a year after it released in the uk
I've often thought of visiting that house myself. Has it changed much? 👍
They talk about how it was a very 'youth' oriented thing for the turn of the century but one thing that drew a lot of my friends to it was that it depicted the lives of nerdy and daggy characters. That thing of sharing households with assorted odd-balls resonated with us.
Yes absolutely. It wasn't just that the characters were young, but they were relatable to those of us with non-mainstream tastes and sensibilities.
it referenced cult movies, games, comics, cartoons. no other show did that, before or since. besides maybe community
She really is Daisy.
It is one of the binge-worthy programs BEFORE binge watching was a thing.
Spaced watching parties were a thing.
Crates of beer, bottle of vodka, mates, DVDs.... 4 or 5 episodes all turbo charged with weed.
You basically binged it with company...you Sessioned Spaced.
@@mossadon sounds awesome
With lost
Marsha looks younger now than she did 21 years ago. Sad Nick wasn't there, but his RHLSTP interview was great.
She keeps interrupting it's really annoying
You're referring to the Royal Horse Lesbian Stripper Trans Party, of course.
RHLSTP!
Wait, Frost did a RHLSTP??
@@loxrocks1985 yeah a about a week ago
It's not finished.
It's finished.
Beautiful
@@MrChuckDugan Daisy: "I can't believe I said Girl Power." 😂
Hit enter a few more times then people have to hit read more to see the 'it's finished'
@@shaneblackburn8910 ....... did you do this✌
@@ferdakaldirim 😂
I only discovered Spaced after Shaun of the Dead, but once I had watched it, it seemed like it had always been part of my life.
simon must have been tempted when jessica was talking to say "skip to the end"
😂
Reece coming on near the end and delivering that line, bought me so much joy.
"Oh yah, I hadn't though' o' dat!"
Spaced is one of the classic sitcoms of all time. When it came out it was one of those shows that spawned a million quotes, what I call the 'Black Adder effect' I'd sit down my local with my mates, and our conversations were peppered with Spaced references and quotes, barely even thinking about it.
WarrenCromartie2 definitely, we have that with Alan Partridge too
And peep show
And Monty Python
@@mrmogford8117 I love you bought Peep Show up! 🤘
Never ever bloody anything ever!!
Jessica talking about being/feeling “old” whilst sat next to Julie Deakin.
Such a Daisy moment!
I KNOW!!!! And she KEPT just HITTING it over and over again!
Big Train, Spaced and Black Books always bring back happy memories of my student days. A true Total Cult classic, the only thing that paralleled it from this era was Nathan Barley. Great panel, shame Nick wasn’t there.
Jam, This Morning with Richard not Judy, The Adam and Joe Show were very good
@@turtleflipper9935 Loved those, and either side of those shows chronologically Glam Metal Detectives on Beeb2, Dennis Pennis, Bruiser (sketch show with Martin Freeman, Mitchell & Webb, Olivia Coleman) then Garth Marenghi, IT Crowd and such.
Are you sitting comfortably?
Okay.
Nathan Barley was 16 years ago.
@@DoughPlanet Charlie Brooker wrote it and it he predicted Shoreditch 100%. It was well Jackson.
@@turtleflipper9935 I have now found my perfect internet thread
Marsha is such a creation that it wasnt until the scene where Marsha imagines her career as a TV presenter that is played much more as Julia really is that I realised who she was.
This scene is actually so touching
Yeah, that was trippy.
Holy shit is that what's going on in that scene? I never clocked it!!!!
Mark Heap owned his corner of this show, easily my favourite scenes featured Brian! It’s so odd to see Mark so disassociated during this anniversary thing.
So much respect for everyone involved in such an iconic show 🤘👍
I get so emotional with this show. Our life at 23 before social media and smartphones. People living together and talking to each other.
So awesome. Never another show like it.
@@nickc4087I bet flatmates don't say a word to each other today. Stuck on the mobile.
Spaced is seriously my favorite comedy show to this day. The writing, the characters, the bits, they were all flawless.
I’m from the United States and I really really love this show. Easily my favorite show of all time, it’s unique and well written. There is nothing like it.
I go back and watch the entire series every few years. Such a comfort. I've been a fan since the 2007 US DVD re-release. Dream team of cast and director.
I'd love to see Simon and Jessica and Edgar do something together again - it wouldn't have to be Spaced, but they def had such amazing chemistry
A Spaced reunion _without_ Nick Frost? Ridiculous.
My work here is done.
Read the Guardian reunion interview - seemed he was a bit off, like maybe him and Pegg weren't really mates for whatever reason.
Just what I was wondering, no mention of Nick?! At least to 35:00
Alright Tyres! Control your mood swings......😜
He tweeted after the interview came out that he and Simon will be friends forever and they were "lolling like crazy fucks" in their Uber after. It seems he has a lack of interest with with the show itself for some reason.
@@elemkay5104 Didnt they open a production company and recently get the rights to make a Rivers of London series together? I'd say they're still tight :)
My (American) ex-girlfriend turned me into this show over 15 years ago. I'm not even a native English speaker but I love it dearly. She passed away a month ago and I had to revisit it one more time.
Sorry for your loss x
Cant believe i haven't watched Spaced since i bought the DVDs 20yrs ago. Going to have to dig them out to watch again.
More 4
Its free on youtube :))
It's free on Amazon prime!!
caveman Versace on Netflix now too
I'm a 🎶30 year old lady 🎶 from usa OBSESSED with this show u randomly came across on Freevee. This is the quintessential show about life as a 20 something innit? Typing innit felt comfortable even though I've never said that out loud before
I struggle to watch the end where Tim picks Daisy up at the station on the Robot Wars thing. A bittersweet ending.
Accompanied by Lemon Jelly's 'The Staunton Lick'
War Bastard
Probably the only series in the history of television that tied things up so nicely after the last season. And did it all to Lemon Jelly. 👍🏻
Spaced, one of the greatest British shows ever. Good to see them all again!
It was peerless then, and I honestly think it has remained so. Preposterously good in every way. Might be time to watch it all over again!
"I just wish sometimes that I could control these FUKIN MOOD SWINGS" I remember rewinding and watching that little monologue over and over again. 😂
I love Spaced. Never watched it when it was TV but got the DVD boxset for Christmas many years back. I only just binged watched Spaced again over the Christmas period. Fantastic show.
"last night was a 1 tip top clubbing jam fur, it was a sandwich of fun on ecstasy bread, wrapped up in a big bag like disco fudge, doesn't get much better than that, i just wish sometimes i could control these FUCKIN MOOD SWINGS" - wap that one out at parties
Such a great and enduring show. I loved it from the start. Edgar is one of the most underrated directors working today; his films are jam-packed with cleverness, but never at the expense of character or plot. What I wouldn't give for Edgar and Simon to be handed the reins of an original Star Wars film.
A Slice of Fried Gold right there.
Shauuun 😊
YEAAAA BOIIIII
:clank:
I love that Fried Gold started as a saying on the production of Spaced, got into the commentaries, and ended up in Shaun!
Thanks for posting this. I thoroughly enjoyed the talk. Only downside was the absence of Nick Frost, who played my favourite character.
well hollywood SIMON turned up ...
He was just on the Richard Herring podcast if you’d like to hear an interview with him .
@@florencehodbale9142 It was depressing
@@sratus how so?
@@kevcatnip7589 Hollywood Simon? Wtf does that even mean?
Loved the show, it was so ahead of its time. Almost got a job on the series, gutted when I didn't...
Shark, a lot of people don’t like people who fidget, not being able to stop moving may have put them off?
Na. I am not like that.
@@Filmmaker809 Think it's a joke on the fact Sharks never stop moving even when asleep mate
I fell in love with Spaced since the very first episode when it was shown in Finnish TV in 1999. Ageless series with amazing cast I love every actor in show, fast and precise editing and of course writing plus endless references. Spaced was practically bootcamp for whole team for later movies.
Whilst I love Nick Frost it's so annoying when people think he helped write the show and disregard Jessica who is the actual co-writer.
This show! Just watched it on Netflix it had been so long, such a classic. I’d love them to do a one off special.
Same. I just discovered it on Netflix, even though I'd obviously heard of it. I'm glad I watched it now as a 40 year old, because I was 18 when it came out in 99 and I wouldn't have been able to appreciate it back then. I was probably too narrow minded and wouldn't have gotten or liked the humor much. But I sure can appreciate it now.
I feel so jealous of people seeing, say, Simon Pegg in Star Trek or watching Baby Driver and thinking: "Hey, I wonder if these guys did anything earlier in their careers?" without knowing they're about to unearth some of the best comedy films and sitcom ever made. I'd give a lot to experience their work for the first time all over again.
Favorite line: "Skip to the end."
And then when Tim runs into the evil, suspicious-looking man--
"What makes you think I'm evil and suspicious-looking?"
Tim: "AlRIGHT!!! I was just being friendly!"
I didn't want this to end.
You didn't want to skip to the end?
I'm glad they did end it, the show itself that is. Nothing ruins a good thing like over exposure. US network would probably have stretched it out to season 10 at least.
"£90 a week, professional couple only"
Love this! Love how they brought Reece up aswell
Edgar Wright does not age.
There's nothing we can do, the government know, they keep it very hush-hush
Just like his movies. Timeless
If you saw his cameo in Dead Wright he has aged a fair bit but less than any of his collaborators
Neither has Jess Hynes!
Mark Heap barely ages either. He’s aged about 5 years since Spaced.
Just finished this series. One of my favourites of all time!
Glad they had a reunion this year to watch. Just a fantastic show.
So happy about this event,Spaced ❤.....Thanks for posting BFI
Where's Mike.....where's Tyres??
"Mine's a pint of the black stuff"
"You can't drink a pint of Bovril"
My favourite show ever! Super talented actors & brilliant writing. Edger Wright is such a clever director, the amount ingenuity/interest jam packed into each episode with barely any money is still exceptional!
Got my Mrs into the world of Spaced, now she's addicted. We watch it almost every week... If you've had a bad day just stick on this absolute cult classic, it never fails to cheer me up and put a dirty great grin on my face... perfect TV!!!
I want more and I dont care what they do! Cornetto trilogy and spaced stuff they were brilliant and the world is a boring place without them so bring it on :D
I just spent almost eight hours watching the entire series! Love it!
Still one of my fave shows of all time. So glad they did this
I clearly remember being pestered by my friend to watch Spaced in 2006, a few years after it had been broadcast. I took a look at the dvd cover and it didn’t appeal so just left it till he asked for it back. Feeling embarrassed I thought I’d better quickly watch the first episode just to say I’d watched it… and it captivated me. I remember sitting there transfixed. Had never seen anything like it. It was so funny, so cinematic, so brilliantly real.
I still binge watch it now and again, and it still grabs me. A wonderful series.
That's always a great way to discover a good show.
I watched it for the first time about a year ago
what a great character Brian was! So funny:)
What's even funnier is how he pretty much did this talk in character. A bit out there, clearly not on the same page as the rest of them :)
“Do you mean am I gay?”
Everything he does is bloody hilarious, I'm sure he couldn't remember any lines as he's played some cracking characters over the years.
"You always were a little quirky Brian"
Do you mean is he gay?
If anyone of you lot read this, i just want to say thanks for giving us this best ever sitcom! I have exhausted 3 copies and have extra dvds new in the wrapper. Your sitcom came out during the best days of my life. It helped shape my life and i am quite frankly obsessed with Spaced. I have always dreamed of a series 3 but i think it would be better of left as 2 series. Thanks again ❤
Oh sweet...much Love for Spaced here from germany. Truly a great show.
21 years and still going strong. You lucky people!
Skip to the end.
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
Why?
mark heap is so funny, every character he has ever played has been kinda samey but so bloody funny. makes me think it's just him haha.
Helloo Jackie.... You look nice
Is that some sort of reference about me not being married?
iago and brian 'samey'?
@@lucasbomber5238 haha ffs
@@Trigormike it wasn't i swear! haha
I live in America, so thank God for Netflix for introducing this show to me! I love British humor and shows, so, I’m so glad for the internet and streaming services, so I can watch some of them.
Nick didn’t turn up because he’s been on a Paintball trip
...and Tyres had to miss out because he was having a mood swing!
He's having a lock in at Greggs.
@Alex Stewart damn sure he did 😀😊😊
15 rocks in his rucksack and everyone knew it.
He was in Sheffield. He fell asleep on the tube and changed at Kings Cross.
Spaced is one of the best television series of all-time, and is easily the most re-watchable! I've seen each episode more times than I could even pretend to count, and every single time I love it just as much as I did in the beginning. Beyond just being one of the most brilliant and influential comedies ever produced, though, it is a testament to the magic that can occur when a television network simply allows young, inspired minds to create the kind of art (in this case: Comedy) that they want to see without a mob of inartistic, money driven executives and producers putting their unqualified hands all over the project.
It seems as though the greatest recipe for timeless series like this is when the writers and actors have equal ownership in all parts. That's when they gain the confidence and the passion to bring the material to life, and the desire to make every line, every acting choice, as deliberate as possible.
That's what Spaced ultimately represents to me; The intersection of a group of uniquely talented young people all coming together at the perfect moment in their lives to create something special. Because they all had the gift of being able to write, and they all came with a common sensibility, you never feel like you're watching actors play characters on television. Instead you feel like you're watching a troupe put on an original play of their own creation, where each person is equally as invested in their character as the next.
This is something (to be honest) that you don't quite feel with American television. There are exceptions, like Donald Glover's Atlanta or Vince Gilligan's Breaking Bad, but for the most part you can just feel the studio's influence in every scene, and in every character of every show you watch. With Spaced that couldn't be any further from the truth. It is as uncorrupted a series as you will ever find, which is why it never loses its authenticity. It's as wholesome and enjoyable the first time you watch it as it is the one-thousandth time, and it's why I always finish the series knowing that in the not-so-distant future I will re-watch it again.
Along with red dwarf. That's also re watchable.
I was so upset I couldn’t come to this Q and A, but so glad that someone put it on the net
Probably the best British show ever made. I binge watch it every few years. Where was Nick Frost??
Got the DVDs, still watch as its a show that encapsulates 90s gen x
I want them to have a 2 season continuation!!! I miss spaced so much!!! Please!!!
SO many great moments from this show pop up randomly in my brain...lasting impact ... Yep
I misread brain as Brian...
Spaced is still better then all Edgar & Simon movies! :) Please you wrote another script with Jessica!
Spaced - made at the very end of the nineties & it summed up what being left of centre was like so perfectly at that time so perfectly.
Spaced really was such a huge part of my teens and beginnings of loving comedy. It was at this point I was finding monty python for the first time too.
I don't think Spaced will ever be surpassed in terms of original, high-quality British comedy that generations still subtly quote, even in their mature years.
I would put Phone Shop and Ideal on that list.
Yeah I have a colleague who’s prone to waffling and repeating himself and I’m always muttering “skip to the end” lol
I may be 22 years late, but DAMN these guys made an amazing show
Jessica Hynes make me go wobbly - and I don't even know why! Well then again...you know...!
Just watched this. Think I'll have to watch it all again another 3 or so times now.
Jessica Hynes talking style like Tarantino. :) I love her! Spaced = Jessica!!! RESPECT from İstanbul, Türkiye...
Just listening to Spandex Man by Mr Scruff and thought, I’ve got to watch Spaced again (it’s the music under Tim’s introduction when he’s skateboarding) This and Green Wing are fantastic.
This is so awesome! Had no idea they did this. The fact they managed to get Mark Heap is incredible!
Why so? Does he not do publicity usually? He didn't look to be particularly enjoying it I must say.
@@salnaturile8653 He's one of those actors that just focuses on the craft. I've not seen him do interviews and such very often.
Dokka Chapman every interview I’ve seen him do it’s like he’s always strangely in character haha
A total cult TV classic - wish I had been there!
Been at the house?
Spaced was a mirror held up to my life at the time... And brilliantly funny.
I didn't recognize the After Hours reference with the keys. I only watched that film a few years ago. Good stuff.
Where's Mike?
cut to tree shot
Hes invading Paris
doing credit card adverts
This was amazing. Thanks for posting it! One of the best shows ever produced.
FOOKIN' MOOD SWINGZ !!
* switches off kettle *
One of the few box sets I own and and have watched numerous times and never fails to appeal. Olivia Williams is still one of the funniest cameos but many before they were famous cameos. The zombie sequence is one of the scenes which looked like a film so no surprise Edgar Wright went onto making serious films. Also Mark Heap is amazing at creating characters whether Brian in Spaced or the fantastic Jim from Friday Night Dinner.
I have the boxset on vhs and thought I'd lost it after lending it out for years. But in 2008, i took about 150 videos to a car boot sale, found my Spaced boxset in the mix and came back home with 149 videos and a VHS player 😂 xxx
L amo Cool
The reference I always loved in Spaced was the Waterworld one in S2E3 'Mettle' with the old man cleaning the dishes. Remember hearing Pegg confirm it was a Waterworld reference in the audio commentary.
My fave show ever. It still smarts we never got a proper ending.
Man I just watched the whole series today and I want MOOORRRE!
All amazing people who made one of the most amazing TV shows of all time!! Love it, Watching this I just kept thinking...Oy Oy! We are lucky people!
This is brilliant, I still watch Spaced over 2 decades on, shame Nick Frost wasn't here, Mike is a legend!
He was a great character. Nick didn't contribute in any other way though.
same with tires and vulva
Anyone else off to binge on Spaced?
"I've been kicked out of the rough ramblers Tim"
Spaced is one of the greatest TV shows ever...not just British.
I miss this show! First watched it after a terrible interview and this show was on Netflix and it was so relatable and made me feel better. ❤
Thank you for sharing. This is my favorite show of all time.
so no one's gonna talk how ADORABLE mark heap is?
Oh wow, I just randomly found this video, was really fun to watch. Am a big Spaced fan, am gutted it doesn't have a wider audience and appreciation for its genius.
I was also thinking about how Mark Heap was sitting there not saying much, and didn’t really get the recognition he deserved for his role as Bryan. He’s amazing and I feel that perhaps he was a little bit miffed about not being referenced more, and not included when they listed all the great artists/comedians involved, I know he was already on the stage, but he’s an absolute legend 👍🏻