Jessica Hynes is a tentpole of British nerd culture. Edgar Wright and Simon Pegg are often touted as creating the geeky masterpiece known as Spaced, but Hynes served as co-creator and co-writer, as well as starring as Daisy, the wannabe writer who ends up faking a relationship with Pegg’s wannabe artist to get a deal on rent. Hynes’ work on the series, which celebrated its 25th anniversary last week, coincided with another project she was working on. “My son is 25 now,” she tells Inverse. “He was three months old when we were filming the first series.”
Spaced is still finding a new audience a quarter-century later, even if its then-timely references to The Phantom Menace and Babylon 5 haven’t always aged well. “I think nothing can ever really truly stand the test of time,” Hynes says, “but what I do enjoy so much is when young people come up to me and say, ‘Oh my God, it's you, my parents made me watch the show.’ One day, it'll be ‘my grandparents.’”
