Celebrate Our Cinemas Episode 4: Simon Pegg

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2021

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Celebrate Our Cinemas is a brand-new, limited-edition podcast series, brought to you by Empire in association with Meerkat Movies from Compare The Market. Each week, Chris Hewitt will sit down with a notable guest from the world of film and dig deep into their cinema-going history. What was the first film they remember seeing? What film made them laugh so hard that tears streamed down their face? What's their favourite cinema? And, most important of all, what's their cinematic snack of choice? In this week's episode, the amazing Simon Pegg -- star and co-writer of Spaced, Shaun Of The Dead, Hot Fuzz, and The World's End; and star of the modern Star Trek films, and the Mission: Impossible franchise, where he plays Benji Dunn -- is our guest, taking time out from his busy schedule filming Mission: Impossible 7 and new TV series The Undeclared War to tell Chris all about the films that shaped a young Pegg (no prizes for guessing that there's a Star Wars in there somewhere), his experiences in different cinemas across the world, how Ari Aster got inside his head, and that time he nearly killed Johnny Knoxville. It's a lot of fun, and we hope that you enjoy.

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0:00.0	Hello pod, I'm Chris Huet and welcome to the fourth episode of Celebration of Cinema,
0:21.0	or celebrate our cinemas if you prefer.
0:23.3	A brand new limited edition series of podcasts brought to you by Empire in association with
0:29.2	those fine and funky folks at Miracat movies from Compare the Market.
0:34.6	The goal of the show is simple.
0:36.7	Each week I interviewed someone from the world of film about the movies and the movie
0:41.1	going experiences that shaped them.
0:43.7	What was the film with lit a fire under the cinematic back sides?
0:47.1	What film made them laugh the most?
0:49.1	Cry the most?
0:50.1	Or scared the bejesus out of them the most?
0:52.4	What's their favourite cinema in the whole wide world?
0:55.0	And perhaps most important of all?
0:57.3	What's their movie snack of choice?
0:59.7	And this is all in service of course of celebrating the simple act of going to the cinema,
1:04.9	which I don't know about you folks, I will never take for granted again.
1:10.1	This week I am honored to be joined by one of the finest and funniest people I know,
1:14.5	Mr. Simon Pegg.
1:16.4	You'll know him of course as the star of the Carneto trilogy of films, Sean of the Dead,
1:21.4	Hot Fuzz and The World's End, which he also co-wrote with their director Edgar Wright.
1:27.2	He's also starred as Scotty in the modern Star Trek movies, Benji Dunn in the Mission
1:32.7	Impossible franchise and much, much more.
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