The wonderful Jessica Stevenson is comically irate. "I don't need them!" she blusters at us as we bring up the big-screen movements of Simon Pegg, Edgar Wright and Nick Frost - her comic conspirators on the excellent Spaced - as we chat to her for her latest film, Confetti. She's joking, we think, and we suggest she needs to grab them back down to earth.

"I don't know whether they want to be grabbed back," she laughs, "They're filming Hot Fuzz now, aren't they? I haven't even been asked to be in it. Maybe they'll give me a call; maybe there'll be something there. Mission: Impossible 3 is opening on the same day Confetti is too and Simon is in that. I really hope Confetti does well but I don't know what its chances are against that one. What d'you reckon? No? Pegg's gone all Hollywood on me... Perhaps you could remind them of their roots the next time you see them..."

Naturally we promise to do so, but only if she'll push our selfish agenda - we're itching to see more Spaced. "Simon's often talked about doing some kind of special, actually," she reassures us, "and this year Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash are trying to do a Royle Family special so that might happen too. I think it's about time we did get back together for Spaced. Maybe when they finish filming Hot Fuzz I'll grab Simon and see what we can come up with. It'd be great fun to get back there."

Pegg has always reassured us of his desire to get back to Spaced if ever he can find the time, and Stevenson's musings have given us new cause for hope - Tim and Daisy back together again. "All of us are so busy and it is just a case of us finding time," she said, "but we've certainly got lot a lot of ideas for it and I think it will happen eventually. I think we'd have to do something that commented on the time lapsed since the last series to cover our advancing ages. We're no longer flat-sharing students, I guess, but you could imagine Tim and Daisy not having ventured out in the interim.

"There's so much you could do, so many different things to explore. They're two characters that people really like. There was chemistry between them as characters which I think you could revive in some way.

"But, of course, now Mark Heap has sort-of made his mark again playing another kind-of screwball character in Green Wing I don't know how it'd work for him to come back as Brian, though I'm sure it'd be fine. You can never get enough of Mark Heap."

Taken From: filmfocus.co.uk