Paul King, director of The Mighty Boosh, and more recently Paddington, spoke to The Guardian newspaper yesterday.

We’ve always thought that Paul King is a bit of a hero – well, look at the wonders he has brought us over the years: Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace, the Boosh and Bunny & The Bull.  And now it looks like the rest of the world is catching up: Paddington is now the second highest-grossing non-Hollywood family film ever, passing £170m at the global box office. And the DVD which was released yesterday is already No 1 on the Amazon chart (with the Blu-ray at No 4).  So the Guardian decided to mark the occasion with a chat with the man himself.

Paul doesn’t talk to the press that often, so it’s nice to get the chance to hear what he has to say about what he does. In the interview, he talks about how the initial resistance he experienced to his plans for Paddington (“The world does not always greet the announcement of a CGI reboot with great enthusiasm.”), and why he thinks it has been so phenomenally popular. As he says: “Paddington is a misty-eyed film about inclusiveness and the ability of people to transcend birth and come together and be terribly nice and fluffy to each other. And so it’s nice to see that fluffiness in the real world.”

To read the article in full click here. And to procure the Paddington movie for yourself, visit TVO’s amazon store for the DVD (£9.99) and Blu-ray (£12.99) editions.