Nick Frost made up the character of a military-obsessed gun fanatic to amuse friend and flat mate Simon Pegg. Wanting Nick to put his talents to good use, Simon wrote Nick the part of Mike Watts in his show Spaced.

‘If you don’t appear in our show, I’ll cut your nuts up.’

Once, during his time as the weapons expert, Mike Watts, he took a gun home to practice taking it apart and putting it back together:

'I took a gun home to practice stripping it. A woman saw the barrel sticking out of my bag and called the police. I had gone home and it was a very hot day so I opened the back door of my house and was sitting in a pair of skimpy shorts with a blindfold on, taking the gun to pieces. When I put it back and lifted the blindfold up, there were six or eight armed policemen holding firearms at me and they came in and started screaming - it was very tense.’

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