Did you do any real life police training to get in shape for the film or just hit the couch with some tinnies for a shoot 'em up session on the Playstation?

Frost: A bit of both really. We spent time with both the London and Somerset police forces.
Pegg: Services.
Frost: Of course, force is too aggressive. They couldn't be more different and you just think, how the fuck d'ya do that day in day out.
Pegg: We did our research. They've got one police officer for every square mile in London and nine police officers for every 250 square miles in the West Country.

Lethal Weapon, Bad Boys II, Point Break� they all get a mention in the film. But what's your favourite buddy cop movie?

Pegg: Tango and Hutch?
Frost: Starsky and Hooch?
Pegg: It's gotta be Lethal Weapon.
Frost: Riggs and Murtagh. What a wonderful combination. One's a family man about to retire and the other guy's a fuckin' nutcase. They shouldn't be together.
Pegg: I think Clint Eastwood and Tyne Daley in Dirty Harry: The Enforcer was an interesting double act. Kinda like 'Lacey and Callaghan'. Obviously she got 'offed before the end because she was a woman and there's no room for women in a Dirty Harry movie.

Cagney had Lacey, Dempsey had Makepeace� If Hot Fuzz had been a three-way who would have been the gun-toting lucky lady?

Pegg: What about Bridget Nielsen from Beverly Hills Cop II.
Frost: She could have been a Russian agent with a name like Somerset Heat.

Who's the man? Mel Gibson in Lethal Weapon, Will Smith in Bad Boys II or Keanu Reeves in Point Break?

Pegg: All those guys explored the feminine side of the action hero. Gibson had his suicidal paranoia, Smith was a player with a soft side and Reeves turns into a hippy surfer.
Frost: It has to be the Smith. He gives it some soul.
Pegg: Yeah. He pulls off movies like Ali, The Pursuit of Happiness and Bad Boys II. He can do it all! Will Smith is everyone's friend!

Were you ever mistaken for real cops during filming?

Pegg: We took down a post office raid, which was weird.
Frost: Three masked blokes ran out and we were like "Bang! Have that ya slag!"
Pegg: No. All Nick did was help an old woman across the road.

Does donning a bullet proof vest and packing a gun make you feel like a real man?

Unison: Yes!

Do your girlfriends like a man in uniform?

Pegg: It's often quite appealing. But I think a girl in uniform is nice. Perhaps a Wren or a Traffic Warden.
Frost: Mmmm. I lived in Israel for a while and you often see hundreds of women standing at bus stops with Uzis. It's a real treat.

What do you say to those people who insist that all coppers are bastards?

Frost: They're so wrong. Try being a copper for a day�
Pegg: It's difficult when you're given authority to not be a bit of a bastard. Not everyone's a good apple.
Frost: In every profession there are bastards.
Pegg: But I'd defy anyone not to turn into a bastard with some of the shit they have to put up with. Going back to The Long Good Friday British cinema has focussed on the gangsters so it was nice to turn the tables and make British coppers look cool.

You've lampooned zombie and cop movies, what's next?

Pegg: I'm not sure if we'll do that again otherwise we'll end up as the 'genre boys'.
Frost: Any film you make is gonna fall into a genre. It's difficult to make a film that's unclassifiable. You'd have to make a skating drama set in fucking space.
Pegg: But Nick and I are writing a new film, which has a slight sci-fi edge.
Frost: I'd like to do a disease movie like Outbreak. You'd get to work with a monkey!
Pegg: Hey Hoffman's a good guy!