Comedian Greg Fleet may be starring in a Canberra film about flesh-eating zombies but he's also enjoyed dining in some of the national capital's restaurants.
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Fleet has become something of a connoisseur of Canberra eateries since working on the comedy Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse, which wrapped filming on Friday.
He plays a lacklustre, ''bit over it'' tradie in the film and reckoned his character's lassitude demanded a little method acting by him piling on the kilos.
''So what I've done is gone to pretty much every restaurant in Canberra and made a complete pig of myself,'' he said.
''I've been going mad on Twitter about Canberra's restaurants, I really am a big fan, seriously. I've had a ball in Canberra.''
Before he leaves, he wants to see Jackson Pollock's Blue poles at the National Gallery of Australia.
''That's, like, highly significant to me growing up,'' he said. ''I remember all that stuff going on about buying it and people freaking out that it cost a million dollars or whatever. It must be worth $400 million now.''
All that high culture is a world away from the droll splatterfest created in the old vacated AFP building in Civic, which became the set for the film.
Fleet might be better known as a comedian but acting has always been part of his career.
''I really like doing both,'' he said. ''I started out as an actor and went to drama school and all that and then fell into comedy. I'll do one or two serious things a year. I've done Shakespeare with the Melbourne Theatre Company. It's not the main thing I do but it's a really nice change.''
He said people would find the movie funny and tense.
''There's also some emotional moments in there,'' he said. ''There's a bit where I have to relinquish my daughter to someone else because I think I'm not going to make it and I've got a daughter, so that would be hell. So there's a few nice touching things in it without being a super-heavy drama.
''It's also a very Aussie take on things, unlike a lot of zombie movies where people are full-on panicking, they're fairly laid-back most of the time.''
Written and directed by Declan Shrubb and produced by Daniel Sanguineti, both Canberra locals, Me and My Mates vs the Zombie Apocalypse was developed through ScreenACT's pilot low-budget feature program, and last year received production funding from the ACT government.
Mr Sanguineti said the film's budget was about $800,000. It was expected to be distributed in Australia and overseas markets.
''There are definitely some references in there that Canberra audiences will recognise such as mention of the Monaro Highway and some places around Duntroon,'' he said. ''We never set out to specifically make a film in Canberra, but it is very much a Canberra film.''