Simon Pegg and Nick Frost have reunited for a coronavirus PSA video in which they recreate their famed Winchester scene from Edgar Wright's 2004 indie-horror flick, Shaun of the Dead.
The world's latest apocalyptic event sees the two pals reciting the 2020-updated scene over the phone in keeping with social distancing recommendations. The pair even amend the film's less-than PC line, which saw Frost calling Pegg's character gay for defending his girlfriend Liz.
"Yea, I see what you're doing," Pegg says in the new skit. "I know it's 2020, but the original joke wasn't intended as homophobic. It was more a comment on the absurdity of straight male appropriation of homophobic signifiers in order to denote their aversion to emotional candidness."
The message of the PSA is clear in the end: stay away from the Winchester — unless you want to get infected, and, "if you can, stay at home, have a cup of tea, and wait for all of this to blow over."
Compare the new PSA and the original scene below.
The world's latest apocalyptic event sees the two pals reciting the 2020-updated scene over the phone in keeping with social distancing recommendations. The pair even amend the film's less-than PC line, which saw Frost calling Pegg's character gay for defending his girlfriend Liz.
"Yea, I see what you're doing," Pegg says in the new skit. "I know it's 2020, but the original joke wasn't intended as homophobic. It was more a comment on the absurdity of straight male appropriation of homophobic signifiers in order to denote their aversion to emotional candidness."
The message of the PSA is clear in the end: stay away from the Winchester — unless you want to get infected, and, "if you can, stay at home, have a cup of tea, and wait for all of this to blow over."
Compare the new PSA and the original scene below.
