Simon Pegg has called time on the nerdy stuff, and says he’d rather watch Succession than sci-fi.
As for his A-list status, friendship with Tom Cruise and box-office pulling power – well, he’d take Hertfordshire over Hollywood any timeLast summer, the actor and writer Simon Pegg and the writer-director Edgar Wright holed up for a week at Pegg’s home in Hertfordshire to see if they could break ground on a fourth feature film together.
Their previous three, aka the Cornetto Trilogy – Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007) and The World’s End (2013) – are all standards on any list of the best British films of the 21st century, and have made both Pegg and Wright bona-fide Hollywood heavyweights.
But progress on film number four, Pegg admits, wrinkling his nose, was slow.Was it the pressure of following those previous iconic films? Pegg shakes his head.
“Edgar bought his dog,…
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