Simon Pegg on everything from Mission: Impossible to Spaced, Hot Fuzz and Shaun of the Dead
Kermode on Film
HLA Agency
4.5 • 884 Ratings
🗓️ 17 June 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Mark is joined by actor Simon Pegg, who talks about his role in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, and reflects on his career from Spaced and the Cornetto Trilogy all the way to Hollywood.
This episode of Kermode On Film was recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 9 June 2025, and was the second half of that date's Mark Kermode Live in 3D show.
Thanks for listening!
Films and shows mentioned in this episode:
- Mission: Impossible
- Spaced
- Hot Fuzz
- Shaun of the Dead
- The World's end
- Meantime
- Syd & Nancy
- City of the Living Dead
- Dawn of the Dead
- Star Trek
- Spaced
- Star Wars
- Guest House Paradiso
- The Young Ones
- Doctor Who
People mentioned in this episode:
- Eddie Hamilton
- Tom Cruise
- Mike Leigh
- Gary Oldman
- Nick Frost
- Lucio Fulci
- Edgar Wright
- Rich Fulcher
- Jessica Hynes
- Leonard Nimoy
- Peter Mayhew
- Joonas Viljami Suotamo
- Rick Mayall
- Ade Edmondson
The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film features quotes from:
- Mary Poppins – Julie Andrews
- Nope – Keke Palmer
- Withnail & I – Richard E. Grant
- The Exorcist – Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair
We love these films. We urge you to seek them out and watch them—again and again. They are masterpieces.
Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.
This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.
Cover photo by Julie Edwards
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| 0:00.0 | In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. |
| 0:03.6 | You find the fun and snap! |
| 0:08.5 | Did you know that the very first assembly of photographs and sequential order to create a motion picture |
| 0:13.8 | was a two-second clip of a black man on horse? |
| 0:17.8 | We want the finest wines available to humanity. |
| 0:21.0 | We want them here and we want them now. |
| 0:24.2 | You really don't want me to play, huh? |
| 0:26.5 | No, I do. |
| 0:27.9 | Captain Hardy said no. |
| 0:29.6 | Captain who? |
| 0:32.0 | Hi, this is Mark Kermode. |
| 0:33.5 | Thanks for downloading this Kermode on film podcast. |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome to Part 2 of the 1003 edition of Mark Kermode live in 3D recorded at the BFI |
| 0:41.3 | South Bank in London. In this episode I'm joined by Simon Pegg who takes us behind |
| 0:45.8 | the scenes of Mission Impossible sharing insights into his character and the making of |
| 0:49.8 | this epic action film as well as discussing some of his inspirations as an actor |
| 0:53.6 | and highlights from a |
| 0:54.9 | wonderfully varied career for more film chat you can head over to kerberdameo's take but for now |
| 0:59.4 | sit back and enjoy kermod on film last show that we did we had um eddie hamilton who was the editor |
| 1:08.6 | of the mission impossible films and he brought along a piece of footage with him, which hadn't been seen before, which was an outtake from, I think it's, is it from Rogue Nation, Nick? Yeah. And it was an outtake of the actors in a, in a thing called the tumble dryer, the washing machine, and they needed three seconds of footage |
| 1:27.9 | of inside a car that was flipping and rolling. And he brought it along because he thought it was |
| 1:32.3 | really funny because it's much longer than three seconds. He said, we were only allowed to play |
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