In terms of Snow White, I think it’s the 75th anniversary of Disney’s release, isn’t it? I think that’s why there’s been a glut of Snow White stories. But, I don’t know, if I was being less cynical, I’d say that there’s been a nice boost in technology, which means we can remake these things, and really make them look amazing. Classy and frightening and dark, or glossy or whichever Snow White camp you’re in. But, if I was being more cynical, I’d say that marketing people go through a list of things and go ‘ah! This is the thing! Let’s remake these.’ Rather than find some good original material and take a chance on it.

The technology aspect is there, though, and that’s something that has developed since, say, the eighties, which is the last time that a lot of fantasy films were made in Hollywood. Most of those films look quite ropey now. But now we can get some of the best British actors and shrink them down into dwarf form. Was it all CGI?

We had a lot of different processes. A lot of the time, there were doubles of us. We went to dwarf college as well, and we spent three weeks with our little selves. They’re not dwarves, either, they’re just short people. So they had to learn how to walk like dwarves, too, and we had to learn to walk like dwarves. Lewis, who was my double, we had to learn to walk like each other. So in the wide shots, you wouldn’t think ‘that’s not Nick Frost!’. So they did a lot of the wide work, a lot of the battle work. They said they were going to cut thirteen inches out of us, and shrink us down to a nice size. But they also did a lot of in-camera stuff, which I really liked. Kristen and Chris Hemsworth were on plinths, and we were in holes in the set, and they’d build each set with a little runner down the middle, so we could get in there. They had a few giants as well, on set, so I think Eddie Marsan and Toby Jones fought a giant, and because of the scale, obviously, it worked perfectly. I think where it fell down technically was the fact that, yes, you can take thirteen inches out of my size, I am twice as big as Chris Hemsworth, or Kristen. So, then, the little guys would come in, and do the stunts. They worked, like, twice or three times harder than us. They did all the battles, most of the big fight scenes. They worked hard, and they had to do it all with a mask on.

That’s while you’re in your trailer, relaxing…

Yeah! [laughs] We had to share a trailer with our…