TRUTH BE TOLD

Following on from our TRUTH SEEKERS set-visit last issue, we speak with the driving forces behind Prime Video’s excellent new supernatural comedy series, SIMON PEGG, NICK FROST, and SAMSON KAYO...

- ED FORTUNE

SIMON PEGG

STARBURST: How would you describe Truth Seekers to an elderly relative? Simon Pegg: An elderly relative? Like Nick Frost? [Laughs] We’re each other’s elderly relatives, I think! It’s a story about an old ghost hunter who takes on a younger ghost hunter and together they go on adventures.

How did it all come about?

When Nick and I started Stolen Pictures, our production company, a few years back, we both came with our own sort of little slates of stuff we’ve been developing separately and apart. Truth Seekers was developed by Nick with James Serafinowicz in the days when we were working out of the Big Talk basement and we basically just gathered together all the stuff that we kind of had in our back pocket. We created Stolen Pictures, and that idea was one of those that was ‘ready to go’ in terms of getting made.

You’re a massive X-Files fan, and you’ve had the opportunity to do your own kind of supernatural paranormal investigation. Why did you choose to play the character of Dave, the middle manager?

I had some availability issues and it didn’t look like I was going to be able to play a greater part in the show. But I obviously wanted to be part of it. So Dave seemed like the obvious choice.

What’s been your favourite part of the production so far?

It was lovely just to get on set. I didn’t do my stuff on the show until the very last week of production. It was nice to sort of get back on set and work with Nick. I hadn’t been on a set with him since