Simon Pegg: It’s Not Called Mission Possible

Literally! With Rob Lowe

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Society & Culture

4.8 • 12.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Rob Lowe and Simon Pegg love the films of the 1980s! Actor and filmmaker Simon Pegg joins Rob Lowe to discuss their mutual friend Tom Cruise, the surprise grand slam of "Shaun of the Dead," Rob's old neighbor John Cleese, art in the age of artificial intelligence, and much more. Make sure to subscribe to the show on YouTube at YouTube.com/@LiterallyWithRobLowe! Got a question for Rob? Call our voicemail at 323-570-4551. Your question could get featured on the show!

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0:00.0	Having kids is like pressing fast forward on your life.
0:03.4	Yeah.
0:03.8	Because they change so rapidly.
0:20.0	Hey, everybody. welcome to literally.
0:22.7	The great Simon Pegg is here today from his amazing explosion onto the culture with Sean of the Dead.
0:33.8	I think it was in 2004 to, of course, all the other great stuff he's done.
0:39.5	And I can't wait.
0:40.7	I got to find out of Mission Impossible.
0:42.9	I'm a big Mission Impossible fan.
0:44.6	You guys know, I'm big Tom Cruise fans.
0:47.0	And listen, let's face it, Benji in Mission Impossible.
0:49.8	There's no movie without Benji.
0:51.9	I posit to you this as we begin. Whatever happened, there's no movie without Benji. I posit to you this as we begin.
0:56.2	Whatever happened, there's no Ethan Hunt without Simon Pegg's Benji.
1:01.9	At least that's what I'm going to tell him, I believe.
1:04.0	Here we go.
1:09.0	Mr. Pegg, welcome to the podcast, man.
1:12.9	Explain to me the bloody shirt.
1:15.1	That's got to be from Sean of the Dead, right?
1:17.5	That is.
1:17.9	That's one of the shirts, one of the 20-something shirts from Sean of the Dead.
1:23.1	There's another one in a museum in Seattle Seattle and there's one in Peter Jackson's movie
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