The World’s End stars Pegg, Frost and Wright: ‘We keep it real in Hollywood’ (Exclusive)

If there’s one thing Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Edgar Wright do well together, it’s bringing the boom of Hollywood to the heart of British suburbia. But, with cult favourites ‘Shaun Of The Dead’, and ‘Hot Fuzz’ behind them, and the final booze-fuelled act ‘The World’s End’ out this week, how have the trio tackled the temptations of Tinsel Town? Have they kept it real?

“I think we all have,” says Simon Pegg. “It’s not difficult to keep it real really, nothing changes - you just work in a different marketplace."

Director Edgar agrees: “When I spend time in LA, the thing I like doing the most is just going to the cinema. Not going to premieres or industry screenings, just going to see films at the cinema.”

“I have Steven Spielberg on speed-dial,” he joked when asked who the biggest celeb is in his phonebook. “I like to call it Spiels-dial…”

Check out the video above, exclusive to Yahoo! Movies UK.

[The World’s End featurette: Pegg and Frost on ‘genius’ Edgar Wright]

‘The World’s End’, the third movie in Edgar’s infamously dubbed ‘Three Flavours Cornetto’ trilogy, sees Pegg and Frost team-up with Martin Freeman, Paddy Considine and Eddie Marsan as a group of childhood chums - reunited 20 years after a fabled, but failed, pub crawl to take on the larger sloshed gauntlet once more. But when the lads discover their once quiet hometown has been taken over by robots, they realise the only way to survive is to make it to the last pub, The World’s End.

So, with the homecoming theme apparent, we wondered how the boys felt about getting back to their own humble roots?

“’Hot Fuzz’ was shot in my hometown, so I went back in the most spectacular way I could… just completely trashed it!” laughs Edgar Wright and admits that some of his own bittersweet experiences of returning home feature in the new movie.

Nick joked that going home was a little harder for him: “I find the growling turbo of my Ferrari tends to set a lot of the car alarms off! They don’t like me going back to Dagenham…”

“I just, I’ve never been back. I think where I am now with my wife and my child? That is my home.”

[Edgar Wright replies to your World’s End questions]

We also asked the trio what it was like choosing the actors to play their younger selves in the film’s many flashback scenes

“Tom [Law, who plays ‘EastEnders’’ Peter Beale] has got a similar little turned up nose to me, which is how he nailed the part,” revealed Simon.  “I saw a video of him and he was really handsome, and I thought ‘Yeah I’ll have him! He’s mine’.”

“Martin Freeman was not so happy with the fact that his younger version had a fake nose,” laughed Edgar. “He saw him and he goes, 'Wait, you had to make his nose bigger? What am I f**king Inspector Clouseau?!'”

Check out the rest of the interview (above) for what the boys think of “the youth of today”, and why Edgar thinks Nick would make a great pub landlord.

‘The World’s End’ is out in the UK 19 July 2013.