Nick Frost feared that he'd made Get Away too violent
Nick Frost was concerned that his script for the comedy horror film 'Get Away' was excessively violent.
Nick Frost feared he'd written a pure horror film with 'Get Away'.
The 52-year-old star has penned the script for the comedy horror flick – in which he and Aisling Bea play parents who take their kids on holiday to a remote Swedish island and discover a serial killer – and was concerned that his screenplay was too gory at points.
Speaking to Eye for Film, Nick said: "I became conscious that I wrote a horror film after watching it.
"There were days on set when someone got murdered and there were 50 litres of blood on the floor. And then there were a few times I actually went back to my wife at night and said, 'F****** hell, this film's really violent!'
"You know, I didn't really imagine it as violent, because it's a cute comedy about a family having their last holiday and the fact that a serial killer is involved seems to be an aside.
"I didn't imagine what we were doing until I saw what we did and I was like, 'Wow, that's kind of gruesome'."
Meanwhile, Aisling praised the 'Shaun of the Dead' actor for getting the right "chemistry" amongst the cast – which includes Sebastian Croft and Maisie Ayres as the couple's children.
The Irish comedian said: "I think chemistry can be sort of acted sometimes onscreen when people hate each other off-screen, but it makes a job seven times longer when that's what you have to do, because you're working off set, you're working on camera.
"Whereas there were days when we had a ball filming this and we did feel like a little family. It's probably down to Nick nitpicking the cast."
She continued: "It was down to him putting us together as a group. We've all been quite excited about doing press together and stuff, which is rare, and it's because we really all fell in love with each other as a little family. Maisie and Sebastian are both very funny as well, so most of our time was just laughing."
