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Simon pegg mission impossible12/22/2023 ![]() ![]() Simon Pegg is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. ‘Mission: Impossible – Fallout’ opens Wed Jul 25.Pegg at the 2013 San Diego Comic Con International ‘Unkar Plutt? Yeah, I’ve got his nose in a glass.’ But then you would, wouldn’t you? You’ve got a fucking action figure of yourself!’ My wife and daughter call it “the shrine”. ‘I have a little shelf where I have every action figure and doll and plushy that I’ve collected of myself. Oh shit, this is Time Out! London is amazing and I miss it every day.’ London is a city that has my heart forever but I don’t really miss it. It’s amazing how things get better as soon as you accept that you might need some assistance.’ ‘Hollywood isn't nirvana. ‘Yeah, 100 percent – and I have been for eight years. And it certainly couldn’t pull me out of it, because it is just Hollywood – it’s not nirvana. The sort of thing every actor wants, yet it was horrific because I wasn’t in the right state of mind. What was weird was that this was it: the glitz of Hollywood. ![]() ‘If you find it hard to ask for help, it’s a fucking awful place. Is Hollywood an unforgiving place when you’re struggling? You’ve spoken out recently about your past battles with depression. I’m going to find a really collaborative group of people.’ No shotguns on set, no autocratic yelling through megaphones. So your film won’t open with ‘From visionary director Simon Pegg’? The more it can be a collaboration, the more effective this machine is.’ Whether you’re an actor, director or the grip, you’re collaborating with other people. Collaboration is always the overriding thing for me. Have you always tried to absorb lessons from the filmmakers you’ve worked with? Even if I’m just crossing the road, it’s “dun, dun, dun-dun”.’īe there, Dunn that: Pegg and the rest of the IMF team in action Whenever I do anything difficult, I have the theme music in my head. Of course, ‘Mission: Impossible’ exists very much in the cultural subconscious. ‘It feels like there should have been but Tim and Daisy were more about the comic-book canon and sci-fi. Were there ever plans for a ‘Mission: Impossible’ homage in ‘Spaced’? I bought them on Amazon, put them in a box with a note saying, “You’re going to be sitting around a lot – why don’t you watch these?” He sent me a very funny note back saying that he was going to watch them all.’ Mission: Impossible theme music in my head.’ ’ ‘Whenever I do anything difficult, I have the There was a conspiracy going around that Tom had done it on purpose. In the end, it was probably good because Chris was kind of writing it as we went and it gave us breathing space. I was having a week off… I thought! It turned out to be 12 weeks. ![]() Tom Cruise famously broke his ankle during filming. We go through some awful stuff – not everyone makes it.’ Me and Rebecca Ferguson and Ving Rhames are Ethan’s emotional linchpins. “Rogue Nation” was a bit of a buddy movie with me and, and this one is sort of an anti-buddy movie with Henry’s character and Tom. ![]() ‘Well, McQ wanted to make a film that felt different from the last one, in that “Mission: Impossible” tradition of them each being directed by different people. Was it weird to have the same director for two ‘Mission: Impossible’ films in a row? Happily, things have picked up, and then some, for both character and actor since then. So it’s strange to think he’s probably now best known for a character whose first scene – in 2006’s ‘Mission: Impossible III’ – he admits to fluffing horribly. The man’s played Tim in ‘Spaced’, Scotty in ‘Star Trek’, Shaun in ‘Shaun of the Dead’ and cameoed as a bilious space critter in ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’. ‘I’ll have to look that up.’ It’ll probably be a minute or two longer by the time he gets to it, with the tech whiz and wannabe superspy likely to steal scenes again in the latest instalment, ‘Fallout’. Simon Pegg is seriously tickled to discover that his ‘Mission: Impossible’ character, Benji Dunn, has his own YouTube supercut. ![]()
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