Penelope Wilton

take ed's we'll take um whoever i can't remember the name of the um flatmate the house the kind of one in banking or whatever his name is they're like we'll take his car we'll go to pick up um mark we'll go to mom we'll pick her up we'll kill phil sorry phil kills him with like a like a um spade or whatever it is And then they like run out the doorway.

And it's Penelope Wilton's expression that just kills me every single time because she's just seen her husband murdered.

And yet she like happily skipping down the driveway.

Penelope Wilton's done much more highbrow stuff in her long career.

But this is one of my favorite performances of hers.

Absolutely.

The relationships start to get quite poisonous with some of them.

And also...

But she's also not just like a... gag a minute poke poke fun at her thing for everybody she she's a real person too in it um as well so um that's right yeah i went with her she's you can tell she's a of all the cast in um black christmas she's the one that like i bet she had a big career after this yeah that makes sense yeah even without knowing or anything you can just tell or i bet i bet that girl's gonna get some jobs she has a spark for sure yeah

yeah uh abe Last one here is Penelope Wilton.

Do you guys know who that is? In Shaun of the Dead? Yeah, she's Shaun's mom in Shaun of the Dead.

Good pick.

Bob has always been openly gay.

His mother, Penelope Wilton, is a gay rights campaigner and is very proud of what her son has been through.

So his mind is scrambled.

It's the first time.

He's ever thought about being with a woman.

Rose's home life is complicated, so her mother is moving in a guy called Trevor, who Rose doesn't care for and is probably there for the wrong reasons.

And it's about this friendship.

It's about...

He works for Moor Valley Valves, which is, yeah.

And his wife was Penelope Wilton.

Oh, thank you, Ayn.

And then Howard and Hilda next door.

And it stars Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who also co-wrote this with Kate Ashfield, Lucy Davis, Dylan Moran, Peter Serafinowicz, and who else in this movie? Bill Nighy is actually in this movie, before I knew who Bill Nighy really was.

And then, and amazingly, after looking up the cast list, and I think I remember them being in this, Martin Freeman's in this, Penelope Wilton plays Sean's mother, and Rafe Spall, who I probably will have to look for next time I watch the movie, because he's somebody I didn't really know about until like the last couple of years, so.

um look this movie is tremendous like i said it's one of my favorite comedies it you know it's one of the great buddy films uh you know ed and sean are a great friendship you know it's kind of it it definitely you can definitely see that they are fans of the zombie genre because they do uh have inspiration from like like um you know resident evil even um Dawn of the Dead, things like that.

You know, they're slow-moving zombies, which, you know, is less scary to me.

And it's another supporting appearance for Bill Nighy.

And of course, Penelope Wilton.

Yeah.

Oh, she's getting...

Later appearing in British comedy films such as Calendar Girls and Shaun of the Dead, I also had a regular role in Downton Abbey.

Okay, is it Penelope Wilton?

It is Penelope Wilton, yes.

Well done.

Of course, a famous sitcom being Ever Decreasing Circles.

I think is basically our only major sitcom role.

Yeah.

But yes, Dame Penelope Wilton.

You've got...

Amelia Mulgrew, played by Penelope Wilton.

Isola Pribby, played by Katherine Parkinson.

yeah

Yeah,

they're very evasive about it because when Juliet turns up, she says, oh, I really want to meet Elizabeth.

And Amelia, played by Penelope Wilton, says, oh, you won't be seeing her.

She's off the island at the moment.

it under a cold tap

yeah it's perfectly fine penelope wilton as barbara sean's mother who is just everybody's great in this

yeah yeah there's there's no bad performances of this yeah

um and that's really it for your main crew um you we've got uh peter sarah finowitz as pete who is sean and ed's uh roommate he's he's really the more ambitious one of those trio you wonder how like why do you two it reminds me to be quite fair um pete is the amy and you and i were the the sean and ed of our of our three-person living arrangement up and yeah that's pretty good yeah we weren't as unambitious as Sean and Ed but no but just yeah just compared to yeah uh we got a Martin Freeman sighting um it's just it's just a great film so great cast solid cast at this time you didn't know who any of these people were no you didn't um you we do now but at the time no these were just a bunch of unknown British actors and actresses and Edgar Wright really kind of gave him a launching point so yeah