Simon Pegg
Simon Pegg
Simon John Pegg is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, and producer. He co-wrote and starred in the Three Flavours Cornetto trilogy of films: Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End. He portrayed Benji Dunn in the Mission: Impossible film series and Montgomery Scott in Star Trekand Star Trek Into Darkness, and both starred in and co-wrote Star Trek Beyond...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth14 February 1970
CityBrockworth, England
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When you go into a movie and you're surprised by it - these days with brand recognition being such an important thing and essentially trailers, the way trailers have evolved encouraging people not to see the film unless they've already seen the film which is kind of the paradox of marketing these days anytime that you enjoy genuine sense of wonder and surprise in the movies it's priceless.
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That's always important to us, is being truthful. Not guessing, not making any assumptions. Just coming at it with knowledge.
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If there is no fate and our interactions depend on such a complex system of chance encounters, what potentially important connections do we fail to make? What life changing relationships or passionate and lasting love affairs are lost to chance?
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It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in front of a walking dustbin to record an important message, that love truly came to town." - p 16 [re: Princess Leia]
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Because once the word got out that we were making Shaun of the Dead, we didn't want people to think we were backtracking or changing our minds.
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I always loved horror and that's sort of the reason we decided to make the film. We were nourished on those sorts of films, so it was a labor of love.
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We wanted the humor to happen as a result of the zombies, you know? Like the humor being a result of their presence, rather than them being funny.
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We work with every one of them to see if their character wouldn't say a certain thing or if something is worded awkwardly - we work with them to rectify that.
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There are a lot of visual marks that have to be hit, and lines that need to be said in a right way - so there wasn't really any improvisation on the set when it came to the bulk of the script.
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The only spoof I think is the title, which was just we thought of very early on and it kind of stuck.
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I loved playing Shaun, he's not that different from me.
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Both me and Edgar are firm believers in never underestimating or talking down to an audience, and giving an audience something to do, to give them something which is entirely up to them to enter into the film and find these hidden things and whatever.
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You always worry about films when you hear about them making decisions after announcements are made.
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In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.