Meanwhile, after answering a casting call on social media David Wilkin, 46, made it into the film as a zombie extra, featuring in one scene with 20 other zombies attacking a priest in a church filmed in Stanwick St John, near Richmond.
He said: “I saw the advert looking for fit, thin people and I thought why not give it a try.”
He said he had spent each day “covered in fake blood head to toe – all your hair, your face, covered in blood”.
He described the film’s director, Danny Boyle, as “an all-seeing eye, watching everybody”.
“He let everyone get on with what they were doing. He was a presence in the church, but a pretty cool one,” he added.
Mr Wilkin said he had attended the North East Gala Screening of the film in an attempt to spot himself on screen.
However, he said as the scene he was in was a “frenetic zombie attack” he would have “needed a pause button see myself”.