How ’Hot Fuzz’ Changed the Trajectory of Olivia Colman’s Career

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It would be a stretch to say that Edgar Wright’s 2007 buddy cop comedy Hot Fuzz is the most pivotal movie of Olivia Colman’s career, but after listening to Colman on this week’s Good Hang with Amy Poehler , I’m willing to make that leap. Real ones know that Hot Fuzz is the best of the Cornetto Trilogy and a near-perfect film, a marvel of plotting and callback with a joke ratio nigh unmatched. Colman, of course, played DC Doris Thatcher, a bit part made memorable by Colman’s unforgettable cackle.

Sadly, Poehler and Colman don’t spend a lot of time discussing Hot Fuzz during the podcast, which seems like a real missed opportunity to me, but hey, wh

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