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The Unfriend curtain call at Chichester Festival Theatre, June 2022

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Reece with Keith Allen at the British Comedy Awards, 12 December 2009

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Reece Shearsmith as Old Mother Shipton in Psychobitches

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"It didn't seem like it was going right. There'd never been such a palpable but brilliant 45 seconds of television as when he was deciding what to do" Reece Shearsmith - Derren Brown: Behind The Mischief - Behind The Scenes of Russian Roulette

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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse feature from Film 2005 with Jonathan Ross, 7th March 2005

JR: ...comedy performers steeped in British film history, they took their name from a classic crime caper in the first place, Film 2005 headed to the set in Ireland to find out what might be in store in June when the League of Gentleman's Apocalypse reaches your local cinema for local people.

RS: It's showing the glamour of it

JD: The mud? MG: Excuse me there's something up my nose

JR: The three actors in the League of Gentlemen each play several characters in their television series. While many of these creations didn't interact on the small screen, the film's wider scale and continuous plot makes it necessary for characters to meet for the first time.

MG (as Briss): Welcome to Royston Vasey.

JR: The only solution to this potential costume and logistical nightmare has been to cut down on the number of characters they play. So just how many have they each ended up with?

MG: I don't know. About five I think we're doing each.

RS: I play seven.

MG: He's lying.

RS: Steve and Mark play five each. I play seven. So somehow I win.

RS: Well we're used to the makeup changes. It's, you know, long and arduous, but it's not being a trawler fisherman like my brother. I sometimes think, you know, "Oh, I've got to be in makeup for two hours!" All you're doing is you're sat there like that.

JR: Expanding a half hour television show to over 90 minutes in the cinema is a problem. Many TV-to-movie films have contended with offset. Steve Pemberton filled us in on the plot lines they mulled over.

SP: You know, all the League of Gentlemen characters get on a plane and fly to Spain and, and stay at the Costa Plonker. You know,

SP: (as Pauline) And when you get there the hotel's not finished, no one speaks the lingo...

SP: That is the kind of film we didn't want to make. And, and we couldn't find a way, we couldn't think of a way of incorporating the characters in as story that felt filmic.

JR: Eventually the team came up with their perfect combination of ideas.

JD: Royston Vasey meets the Matrix.

SP: We've got a 20 foot monster. We've got the end of the world.

MG: It's really a historical horror film.

(George of Asda clip)

JR: Tiger Aspect, the company behind Billy Elliot and Kevin and Perry Go Large, produced the film with support from Film Four, Universal and the Irish company Hell's Kitchen. And the cost of this ambitious, cameo-laden, special effects driven project certainly added up. To a cool 4 million pounds, in fact

SP: In terms of the budget, well, we had a bigger budget, but it all goes on other stuff, you know. It goes on lawyers' fees and it goes on getting the prints out to the cinemas. You say 4 million pounds. Well, how much of that is going onto the screen?

JR: And it was one of the reasons why the location of Royston Vasey was moved from the television series' Derbyshire base to the outskirts of Dublin.

JD: It's cheaper to come here. If you're allowed to say that...?

SP: There's a tax incentive over there, you get 10% of your budget. If you film 90% of your film and have an Irish crew.

-- clip cuts out here--

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14 March 2017 - Inside no 9 Q&A

Some of Reece Shearsmith’s answers to #insidequestions. I ♥ the idea for the book or graphic novel with no9 tales!

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Reece Shearsmith with James P Drury (producer of Cool Rider and Least Terrified) after a performance of Betty Blue Eyes

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Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton present the BAFTA for Photography & Lighting: Fiction to Christopher Ross at the BAFTA TV Craft Awards 2025

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Reece posted on Instagram (Friday) 13/06/25!

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The League of Gentlemen's Apocalypse premiere, 1 June 2005