Considine appeared in the Spanish thriller "Bosque de Sombras" (2006). It was during the filming of this that Considine penned what later became his debut short, "Dog Altogether". Considine claims that it was his co-star Gary Oldman who gave him the confidence to make the film, which led to him thanking Oldman during his BAFTA acceptance speech. In 2006, he starred in "Pu-239" as Timofey Berezin, a worker at a Russian nuclear facility who gets exposed to a lethal dose of radiation. In 2007, Considine landed roles in two popular big-budget films; the third film in the "Bourne Trilogy" film series, "The Bourne Ultimatum", in which he played newspaper reporter Simon Ross, and "Hot Fuzz", in which he had his first comedic role as DS Andy Wainwright. In 2008, Considine starred in "My Zinc Bed" a TV film for BBC / HBO. In 2009, he starred as Peter Hunter in the Channel 4 miniseries "Red Riding: 1980", based on the novels by David Peace, and another collaboration with Meadows, "Le Donk & Scor-zay-zee", a film which was unscripted, adlibbed, and filmed in five days at a cost of £48,000, and which premiered at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.