SWATH Interview: Nick Frost Embraces His Inner Dwarf, On Kristen's Fan Base @HeyUGuys

HeyUGuys – Do you think this will be your biggest fan-based movie to date?

Nick Frost – Yeah, maybe. I think Kristen’s fans will see to that. Whenever I tweet about anything to do with Snow White and the Huntsman, it get around 3000 or 4000 immediately tweets back with people linking it in but she has a fantastic fan-base.

How do we pronounce the name of your dwarf Nion correctly?

I think maybe Neon but I like Nion because whenever I hear Neon I think of Neo from The Matrix and I got off of it a little but so Nion (Nighon) is fine!

How far down the list of other dwarves did they get to before you said ‘I’m in!’

Probably one or two! I was the last one to be cast so there was a full list. Rupert [Sanders] (Director) showed me some of the concept drawings when we had our first meetings. There were all the dwarves drawn with all their outfits on and there was an eighth one with a question mark on. I saw Bob [Hoskins], Ray [Winstone], Ian [McShane], Toby [Jones], Eddie [Marsan], Brian [Gleeson], Johnny [Harris] and ‘Absolutely!’.

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There’s the image that we see all the dwarves together during a scene (image above), were you fighting for position in that shot?

In that I made sure I was at the very back, which is not what actors want to do – they’d want to be right up front next to Kristen to make sure that they don’t get cut but he doesn’t trust her. Gort and Nion say she has to earn the trust.

What was working with Rupert like as a first time feature director and with such an impressive cast. Was he intimidated?

If he was he didn’t show it. I think he’s up there with Greg Mottola, unflappable man on set. He was partly, one of the reasons why I wanted to do this. When I first met him, he was smart, nice and had a real vision. He knew how he was going to get there and I loved watching him on set. He was surrounded with people building shit and moving lights, sound and boiling around him and he just, took it and knew exactly what he wanted. I liked it, if I looked at Rupert and he was calm and fine it was like, ‘great, cuppa tea!’.

Finally, will there ever be a sequel to Paul?

We’ve never heard anything so I think that will be that. We wanted one and had lots of good ideas but even if we started it now it would be five years.

HeyUGuys thanks kstewangel