“But I love the movie.”

Smith wouldn’t rule out a third Clerks instalment but said it would be unlikely in the next few years.

“Clerks was a movie about what it felt like to be in my 20s and Clerks II is what it felt like to be in my 30s,” he said.

“So somewhere mid-40s or even mid 50s might be a nice time to check back in after I have had a bit of living experience.

As director Kevin Smith returns to the convenience-store classic, Jason Mewes explains how he’s grown up over time.

“The first Clerks was pretty much how I acted when I was younger, I never sold weed—that part’s fiction. But I did smoke a lot of weed back then. I would say that the character of Jay, then and now, is the younger me to a tee. I still act all obnoxious and stuff, but I sort of know boundaries. I’m not going around saying, ‘Hey, sluts!’ you know what I mean? Uh, its not that I don’t think it, but now I might keep it to myself. Being sober, I’m more clear and connected. I live a little more. Because of drugs, I was so much worse. It wasn’t good. I’m sure you know what drugs I was doing. I would be concentrating on getting through a take and wanting to do more drugs, because my only concern was finding some so that I didn’t fell so bad, so that I wasn’t physically sick. Or if I was doing coke, I would want the scene to end so I could go back to my trailer and do more. It only makes it better now that I’m clean, because now I can do six takes and not be concentrating on getting back to my trailer. I can concentrate on more important things like ,’well would it be funnier if I said this here?’”