(The above story first appeared on LatestLY on 03:04 PM IST. With this, we finish off the list and wish him a happy birthday. With Simon Pegg returning this year in a big way with Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, we can’t wait to see what he has been cooking up. Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Recreate Shaun of the Dead Scene As Coronavirus PSA (Watch Video). A great film, that certainly won’t disappoint you. Complete with all the jokes and frantic editing that makes an Edgar Wright film work, Shaun of the Dead is filled with great performances too from Pegg and Nick Frost. Perhaps one of the best zombie flicks you’ll ever watch, Edgar Wright’s Shaun of the Dead is a fine horror-comedy. Tom Cruise, Simon Pegg and the entire team bring a great dynamic here. With more stunts, twice the action and a plot that raised up the stakes tenfold, this is one of the finest action films of the last five years. ![]() Simon Pegg and Nick Frost also play the role of Thompson and Thompson here, and the bumbling police men make for hilarious companions.Įvery Mission: Impossible film is better than the previous one, and so was the case with Fallout. Featuring a great voice cast with some amazing motion capture technology and a story that gives you the thrills of its scope, the movie was a whole lot of fun. Steven Spielberg’s animated film The Adventures of Tintin was a riot of a time. Playing the role of Scotty, Simon Pegg made a great addition to the cast. Juxtaposing the past with the present while telling a story that brought some new energy to this dormant franchise, this was a treat. JJ Abrams’ reboots of the Star Trek franchise was a successful one. An investigation propelled by the comedic performances of its two leads and a third act that will have you in a fit of laughter, Hot Fuzz is a great movie that heavily benefits from Edgar Wright’s directions. “He kind of appreciates the ridiculousness of it sometimes,” says Pegg.The second film in the Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy, Pegg’s Hot Fuzz is a hilarious trip. It was, he says, “a real Tom Cruise kind of day”. Pegg recalls an incident in South Africa when Cruise took a break from filming to fly him in a helicopter to a bay where he could swim with sharks. I mean, I always make fun of him for it, you know, about the things that he can access,” he says. Pegg, who is also known in Britain for his cult sitcom Spaced, as well as for his leading roles in the “Cornetto” film trilogy, Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End, says he teases Cruise about his fame. I mean, he loves and he really relishes it, it’s all he knows. I think you realise, when you meet the person rather than the thicket of mythology that’s built up around them, it’s a different experience. “It’s always been a very easy relationship. “My relationship with him is just very simple and amiable,” he tells Laverne. ![]() ![]() The Hollywood star is now a friend, Pegg says, but he still steers clear of discussing Cruise’s controversial faith in the Church of Scientology, believing it would “abuse my privileged access that I get to him”. He also talks to Laverne about the boundaries of his relationship with Cruise, who stars alongside him in the Mission: Impossible films. The birth of his daughter, Matilda, in 2009 forced him to admit to his dependency and accept the need for recovery. A seriously low mood returned unexpectedly in 2006, while he was working on Mission: Impossible III, and Pegg recalls using alcohol to numb his emotional pain. Pegg’s mental health problems began with a bout of teenage depression after his A-level exams and before studying at the University of Bristol. ![]() Simon Pegg, Rebecca Ferguson, Tom Cruise and Ving Rhames in Mission: Impossible - Fallout.
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