![]() ![]() “The World’s End” - co-written by Pegg and Wright, directed by Wright and co-starring Pegg and Frost - is similar to their previous cinematic collaborations, 2004’s zombie-rom-com “Shaun of the Dead” and 2007’s buddy-cop/action flick parody “Hot Fuzz,” in that it defies single-genre categorization. But actually working together, it was like, oh, here we are again. Obviously, you know, we’re friends away from work so we see each other anyway. “The three of us hadn’t worked together as a unit for six years. stop on the “World’s End” promotional tour. “The film is very much about old friends reuniting, and there was a degree of that in the making of the film,” Pegg says during a recent D.C. The trio’s latest motion-picture rumpus is “The World’s End,” a movie about one man’s attempt to reunite with his childhood pals that also serves as a reminder of the creative chemistry that still crackles among Pegg, Frost and Wright after two decades of friendship. But as that tattoo implies, there’s still a boy inside of him who likes to get a wild rumpus started, especially when he’s with frequent collaborators Nick Frost and Edgar Wright. ![]() “I just love that whole idea of the wild side, of naughtiness being important, as important as your good side.”Īt 43, Pegg is happy to be a mature family man and successful actor who, among other things, has co-starred with Tom Cruise in two “Mission: Impossible” films and beamed himself into the role of Scotty in J.J. “Maurice Sendak’s book was hugely important to me as a kid,” Pegg says, noting that he now reads it to his little girl. The one on the inside of his left arm is a string of stars, a reference to the symbolic twinklers in Antoine de Saint-Exupery’s “The Little Prince.” And the one on his back, hidden by Pegg’s T-shirt, is a tattoo of Max, the rambunctious protagonist from “Where the Wild Things Are.” The one on his right wrist is a single letter, “M,” a tribute to the ladies in his life: 4-year-old daughter Matilda, wife Maureen and his two dogs, Minnie and Myrtle. I thought, ‘I’ve earned that, I want to wreck one too.’ I think the energy that went into developing it, designing that, building it, and then making a sequence that justified its existence was probably the biggest challenge of my entire life.Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu What do you want to do?’ And I said, ‘I want to wreck a train.’ We’re enormous fans of Buster Keaton, John Frankenheimer, David Lean, all of these filmmakers who at one time or another had a fabulous train wreck. “He said, ‘I want to drive a motorcycle off of a cliff. “At the start of this movie, I said to Tom, ‘What do you want to do?’” McQuarrie shared. ![]() The upcoming installment also “ wrecks” a 70-ton train, per the vision of director Christopher McQuarrie. Pegg applauded Cruise’s dedication to a lack of stunt doubles, saying, “There’s a frisson you get when there’s authenticity: the idea that this guy is actually jumping off a cliff on a motorbike and deploying the parachute 100 feet from the ground? It puts the willies up you.”Ĭruise infamously performs his own stunts, including piloting military planes for “Top Gun: Maverick” and defying death (and gravity) atop a motorcycle for the upcoming “Dead Reckoning” film. When I hear people speculating about his weird religion and making assumptions about who he is as a person, I say, ‘ You know he risks his life for his audience?'” ![]() Pegg continued, “People have these opinions about him, which are based entirely on gossip, and he doesn’t really do anything to combat that. “I’ll pull him up on stuff and I can be frank with him,” Pegg said. ‘The Little Mermaid’ Makeup Artist Responds to Criticism About Drag Influences: ‘Why Can’t I Do as Good a Job as a Queer Artist?’ ![]()
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