Simon Pegg revealed how tried to hide his alcoholism on set during the filming of Mission Impossible III, part of the Tom Cruise action thriller saga, in the 2000s. The actor opened up about his personal struggles in the recent episode of Desert Island Discsby the BBC, as reported by the newspaper Keeper.
“You get very smart when you have something like this in your life; you become very calculating,” Simon Pegg told BBC radio show host Lauren Laverne.
Despite that bad season for his personal life, Pegg has admitted it has a fluid relationship with Tom Cruiseprotagonist and producer of the saga of Mission Impossiblegiven that his character of Benji Dunn was retained in the different sequels. That is to say, his alcoholism, at least, has not left any wounds in the world of cinema nor has it particularly affected his career.
a private matter
Pegg, who played Benji Dunn, an FBI field tech agent who helps Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise). Mission Impossible III to track down his apparent girlfriend Julia (Michelle Monaghan), he revealed he developed his addiction to alcohol “after suffering a series of mental health issues and decided to keep the matter private during filming Mission Impossible III”, presented for the first time in May 2006.
“You learn to do it without anyone noticing Because you can’t stop doing it. You want to keep doing the same and you will do everything possible so that nobody stops you, but finally you reach a point where you can no longer hide and that’s when, fortunately, you can go out and save yourself,” the 53-year-old actor and screenwriter, born in Gloucester, England, told the radio show.
worse he attributed his recovery from alcoholism to the birth of his daughter Matildain 2009, with Maureen McCann, his wife since 1991.
While speaking with Laverne, Pegg also shared a few details about her relationship with the star of Mission ImpossibleTom Cruise, with whom he worked on four films in the saga: the II (2006), Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011), Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015) and Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018).
It will also be in the next one, which will be released in theaters in August 2023, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning, part one.
A simple and kind relationship
“I have a simple and friendly relationship with Tom. It has always been a very easy relationship. I think you realize when you meet the person instead of what all the thick mythology builds around the character, it’s a completely different experience and by that I mean: loves fame and really likes it; that’s all he knows. He energizes you and stimulates youPegg explained about her relationship with Cruise.
Pegg, whose real name is Simon Beckingham, and took his stage name from his mother’s second husband, has made more than forty films, seven television programs and simultaneously developed a career as a screenwriter with Night of the Living Dead (2004), Warm fuzz (2007), Paul (2011), the end of the world (2013) e Star Trek beyond (2016).
Although his career is practically centered on cinema, Pegg made himself known in the mid-nineties for his participation in television programs Six pairs of pants, Hippies It’s inside distanced. His film debut was in comedy Paradise hotelin 1999.
Source: Clarin
