Nick Frost turned down role in Star Wars because the pay was ‘rubbish’
Frost said he has no regrets over his decision
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Your support makes all the difference.Nick Frost has revealed he turned down a role in the recent Star Wars trilogy because the pay “was rubbish”.
The actor – best known for his roles in Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead – opened up about his past decision during an appearance on the Celebrity Catch Up podcast.
“I got offered a part in Star Wars. It was only a little bit but I was like, [the part’s] really small, the pay’s rubbish… I’ve got a family. I don’t do this for free,” said the actor.
The 48-year-old added: “I mean I like Star Wars, I like watching it. I don’t want to watch it and think ‘look at your ugly mug.’”
Frost said that he did not have any regrets regarding his decision. “There’s a part of me that thinks, ‘you could have been in Star Wars’ but f*** it,” he said.
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“I tend to not look backwards at all, so that doesn’t really affect me as a choice I took because I think, well it’s done. I’ve made the decision.”
Frost’s frequent collaborator Simon Pegg appeared in 2015’s Star Wars: The Force Awakens as the voice of the junkboss of Jakku, Unkar Plutt.
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