{"id":634425,"date":"2026-06-12T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634425\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T07:00:09","slug":"nick-frost-has-stage-fright-over-art-exhibition-at-kent-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/634425\/","title":{"rendered":"Nick Frost has ‘stage fright’ over art exhibition at Kent gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hot Fuzz actor Nick Frost says he has “the same feeling” of nerves about his paintings as he does about performing on screen.<\/p>\n

The performer has picked up a brush in recent years and his first solo art show opens at Linden Hall Studio in Deal, Kent on Saturday.<\/p>\n

“I suffer terribly from nerves,” Frost told BBC Radio Kent<\/a>, adding he had suffered from “stage fright” since he started acting.<\/p>\n

“I’ve learned to deal with it now and I feel it’s a way of my body showing that I care enough to be nervous about something,” he said.<\/p>\n

“You should always feel embarrassed to show people stuff you’ve made and it is embarrassing because you are putting yourself out there.<\/p>\n

“As I’ve gotten older you just have to realise that it’s alright if people don’t like it, that’s fine, but there will also be people who really like it.”<\/p>\n

According to the actor, who will play Hagrid in the forthcoming Harry Potter TV series<\/a>, he first started painting six years ago while suffering from insomnia.<\/p>\n

“I would just sit up all night – and at that point I was watching films and stuff – and then I started to draw and paint and doodle, as it was a better way to get me through the night,” he told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Frost took to drawing people and he says he used his experience as a writer and filmmaker to “give these people backstories and lives”.<\/p>\n

He said he would often people-watch before he took up painting, and “tell the story of where they were going to or where they’d been or who their partner was or were they having a secret affair”.<\/p>\n

“I love giving people backstories, I’ve always done that as a child,” the Shaun of the Dead actor said.<\/p>\n

“This felt like just a nice way to do that. I could make my own people up.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hot Fuzz actor Nick Frost says he has “the same feeling” of nerves about his paintings as he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":634426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-634425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}