Simon Pegg Talks About The 'Mission: Impossible' Team Being Expendable, And How He’d Feel If Benji Died In A Story

Interview with Simon Pegg

Transcript

00:00 - First time watching this film,

00:03 this chapter of this saga,

00:04 I got the impression that the members of the team

00:07 are expendable.

00:08 And I'm curious if you would be okay with Benji one day

00:12 getting iced in a mission movie.

00:14 - I think you're very right.

00:16 And I think that's something that has always been the case,

00:20 but no more sort of clear is it in these stories

00:24 that we, as I think Luther says,

00:28 we don't matter as much as the mission.

00:30 And any one of us at any time could face the end.

00:35 And if that happened, I'd be sad.

00:38 I've lived with Benji for like,

00:39 and I mean, wait, who's to say it doesn't happen, but.

00:43 - True, true, good point.

00:45 - I would be sad.

00:47 He's been in my life for 17 years.

00:49 I've watched him, I've been him growing up,

00:52 becoming an older, more mature agent.

00:55 And it's a kind of a,

00:58 they live a sort of a tragic life in a way.

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