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“If you want people to sit in a cinema for an hour and a half you do have to grip them visually,” says Seapa. It’s also part of a ploy to make People Just Do Nothing’s usual lo-fi mockumentary style feel big enough for the movies without betraying the characters whom fans have loved for a decade.Ĭrossing over.

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It is, frankly, a whole new level of comic ridiculousness compared to the TV show. “Turns out I do all my own stunts,” he says.

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In the background, people jig about dressed as giant raspberries, squid and a strange object that resembles a UFO dipped in yoghurt.Īnd Seapa’s role in it all? To swing across a series of wooden platforms that are suspended atop a gigantic, foaming swimming pool, in a Banzai-style gameshow challenge. Actors playing Japanese crew members wander past clutching massive plastic berries while unitard-clad extras loll on bleacher seating. The intensely kawaii backdrop features giant sunflowers, pink candy wheels and massive fake toadstools sitting beneath a skyline of cotton wool clouds. “And one day they might say: ‘This is where the character who played Grindah showed off his pear-shaped figure in Spandex!’” laughs Seapa, as he resumes his position on a set decked out like a Japanese gameshow. Each day at Pinewood Studios they walk past photographs of luminaries who once worked here including Marilyn Monroe, Sean Connery and the car from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Photograph: Ken Hirama/UniversalĬut to the gang filming at James Bond’s old set. “So we thought about setting it in space.” That would’ve been the obvious thing – and we never want to do the obvious thing,” offers Stamp. “We didn’t want to do something like Kurupt FM in Ibiza.

And, best of all, it wasn’t a tired cover version of their previous work. A plot about unexpected Japanese stardom also had much broader appeal than a hyper-specific sitcom about Hounslow’s premier garage pirate radio crew.

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“And there’s this great documentary called The Show where the Wu-Tang Clan go out to Japan and Method Man thinks he’s ill because he couldn’t get any weed out there.”Īfter watching a documentary about UK drum’n’bass producer LTJ Bukem also making it big in Japan, they realised that Kurupt FM doing the same seemed both plausible and full of comic potential. They became energised by Anvil! The Story of Anvil – “One of our biggest inspirations,” says Seapa – and its hilarious tale of the past-it Canadian heavy metal band’s rocky reformation. So they went away and started watching documentary after documentary to see how it might be done.

But when they decided to end the TV show in 2018, the idea for the film cropped up again and seemed worth investigating. Back then, the silver screen didn’t feel like a natural fit for their shenanigans. The group shied away from the idea when it was first pitched to them at some point around series two or three. “But in fairness, Steve isn’t thick as pigshit and Asim isn’t a 40-year-old!”Ī People Just Do Nothing film has been a long time coming. “I’m probably the closest to my character in life,” laughs Seapa, proving his point with an unwittingly Grindah-ish boast. For our interview, the show’s stars are out of character: a rare glimpse behind the mask for comics so committed to their roles that they even turn up to the Brits in persona. There is one thing about this scenario that feels different. It is a fittingly daft progression of a career that has seen them headline real-life Ibiza shows and do freestyles with the likes of Craig David. After series five saw the dimwitted Brentford broadcasters give up on their dream of fame and go their separate ways, the film gives them one last shot at the big time, ie the chance to make it big in Japan after a gameshow starts playing their absurd, A&E-themed track Heart Monitor Riddem. It’s the big screen follow-up to their BBC mockumentary sitcom centred on inept pirate radio station crew Kurupt FM – and their love of garage music. We’re on set for People Just Do Nothing: Big in Japan.

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