You've Got Red on You by Clark Collis

Author:Clark Collis
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: 1984 Publishing
Published: 2021-07-09T00:00:00+00:00

(Neck wound prosthetic appliance; Bill Nighy wearing the appliance)

A little later in the film, Ed attempts to drive himself, Shaun, Liz, Philip, Barbara, Dianne, and David to The Winchester in Philip’s beloved Jaguar. Having been bitten by a zombie, Philip is oozing blood. As a result, Nighy spent several days during the third week of shooting sitting in an uncomfortably overcrowded car covered in fake blood. “I had a blood sack around my ankle, a tube going up my trouser leg up to my neck, and it was very, very hot, with no air conditioning,” the actor says. “I was sitting in a pool of dried blood, and bleeding from the neck for long periods, for several days.”

The scenes shot inside the car were the first to feature Lucy Davis. “Simon’s in the middle in the back seat, Bill Nighy’s to his left, he’s got blood on him, and bandages and stuff,” says the actress. “Then there’s Dylan to the right of Simon, and I’m on his lap, so my neck and head were bent for almost five days solid. We used to have breaks when we would get out of the car, and it would take me five minutes to straighten up. None of [that]’s a complaint. It was great bonding for us all. We would go through really daft stages where we were laughing our heads off and singing, and then we’d just kind of be silent and no one would speak. I remember this one time, out of nowhere, we’d been silent for about 12 minutes, and suddenly Bill Nighy sings, ‘Let’s all get into our ’jamas / and out of our normal clothes.’ And then he just stopped. It was the saddest thing I’d ever heard. We had days in that car.”

Hewitt recalls the scenes with the Jaguar as among the shoot’s more difficult to achieve. “It took a lot of special rigs to spin the car around, screeching to a halt,” he says. “You stick the car on as low a trailer as you can get, so it feels real. It enables you to drive around filming them, but it takes forever.”

Pegg and Frost took the lead in keeping up the actors’ spirits. “Nick and Simon would come in and make me laugh, which is quite hard to do when a man’s sitting in a pool of dried blood,” says Nighy. “They would both do their Al Pacino impressions, which were impeccable, and they made me laugh all the time.” The pair’s impersonations of the famed actor were merely part of the entertainment. “It’s Bill Nighy, and we’re sitting in a car, and I think Simon and I were really nervous,” says Frost. “So we were just kind of rambling on a bit. Bill just sat in the back laughing, and the more he laughed, the more we fucked about.” Sometimes Frost would pretend to be a chef from South Africa. “He said something like, ‘Never be scared of a risotto!’” says Kate Ashfield. “They were very, very funny.

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