In the end, our relationship was just like a sandwich toaster, you just forget you've got one.
Aww Jess, as a Spaced fan you sure as heck not forgotten, nor in competition with Wright/Pegg movie success.
"To be honest, when the second series of Spaced finished I was quite lost. Simon and Edgar were moving on and wanted to do a film and I think Edgar wanted to write it so that meant they didn't really want me to go along with that. They wanted to write a zombie film, which I would have been very happy to write, but I just think they had ideas about what they wanted to do next and they didn't involve me."
She sounds a little hurt, but it wasn't as if she didn't have offers of her own. In fact she started her own film script, but found it hard to write with no-one to bounce ideas off. By the time she did knock it into shape, her heart wasn't in it any more, even though a production company was willing to give her money to direct it. Instead she drifted into unsatisfying projects such as the shortlived, critically panned sitcom According to Bex.
What made it even worse was the feeling of inadequacy she felt watching Wright and Pegg's success. "I would compare myself and think, 'What have I been doing? I've been walking into walls and they've been doing that?' It was almost like I felt I wasn't doing well enough. I know that's a really negative thing to do but … I mean, you work with people and they go off and do something spectacular in America and you go, 'Hang on, how did that happen?' On the one hand I was really proud of them and amazed and impressed, but it did make me think, 'Oh God, maybe I should be doing that.' "
She's philosophical about it now, though, and reckons there's a time to do things and a time not to. She had her first child four months before she started filming the first series of Spaced (she now has three children), so priorities changed. "I think that's what happens when you have small babies. After the second series, I was sort of building my family, really. Parenting is such a massive thing. When it happens it's like, woah! And then it sort of settles somehow. And as soon as that happened for me, my mind went back to what I wanted to do, which was writing. I mean I was sad things didn't work out and I didn't get to write more with Simon, because I loved writing with Simon. But I think he and Edgar were really keen to get to Hollywood. I'm not so keen; I just want to write something good and get it made."
Parenthood - massive responsibility. One I sure ain't ready for! Each to their own, and their own goals. Rest of this interview is here. Simon and Jess as a writing team though - solid gold. Is missed.
"To be honest, when the second series of Spaced finished I was quite lost. Simon and Edgar were moving on and wanted to do a film and I think Edgar wanted to write it so that meant they didn't really want me to go along with that. They wanted to write a zombie film, which I would have been very happy to write, but I just think they had ideas about what they wanted to do next and they didn't involve me."
She sounds a little hurt, but it wasn't as if she didn't have offers of her own. In fact she started her own film script, but found it hard to write with no-one to bounce ideas off. By the time she did knock it into shape, her heart wasn't in it any more, even though a production company was willing to give her money to direct it. Instead she drifted into unsatisfying projects such as the shortlived, critically panned sitcom According to Bex.
What made it even worse was the feeling of inadequacy she felt watching Wright and Pegg's success. "I would compare myself and think, 'What have I been doing? I've been walking into walls and they've been doing that?' It was almost like I felt I wasn't doing well enough. I know that's a really negative thing to do but … I mean, you work with people and they go off and do something spectacular in America and you go, 'Hang on, how did that happen?' On the one hand I was really proud of them and amazed and impressed, but it did make me think, 'Oh God, maybe I should be doing that.' "
She's philosophical about it now, though, and reckons there's a time to do things and a time not to. She had her first child four months before she started filming the first series of Spaced (she now has three children), so priorities changed. "I think that's what happens when you have small babies. After the second series, I was sort of building my family, really. Parenting is such a massive thing. When it happens it's like, woah! And then it sort of settles somehow. And as soon as that happened for me, my mind went back to what I wanted to do, which was writing. I mean I was sad things didn't work out and I didn't get to write more with Simon, because I loved writing with Simon. But I think he and Edgar were really keen to get to Hollywood. I'm not so keen; I just want to write something good and get it made."
Parenthood - massive responsibility. One I sure ain't ready for! Each to their own, and their own goals. Rest of this interview is here. Simon and Jess as a writing team though - solid gold. Is missed.