Simon pegg movies8/3/2023 ![]() ![]() I always remember Olivier saying, “Just act, dear boy” to Dustin Hoffman. Do you do stuff like that, which we might not even see or notice, for every character? ![]() He looks so out of place it helps to communicate that aspect of it I think. And also that strange kind of thing of seeing somebody so out of place, it really marks Charlie out from this crazy town that he walks into, this open-air insane asylum. Like he’s read the book on it - “Okay, I’m going to wear a dark suit.” He borders on parody because he’s doing it how he feels like a hit man should behave and look. And he has taken to being a professional killer with 100 percent devotion. We felt like Charlie is probably ex-military and wound up for some reason in Australia, probably getting away from something. He has a scorpion tattoo on his neck, which you don’t always see, but it’s there. I wanted to do the moustache just because I thought it would be fun. Well, I had quite extensive discussions with Kriv early on about what Charlie would look like, and we came up with the moustache. They have no compunction about just killing. And that’s what I really - Charlie is in the great tradition of Martin Blank and Leon from The Professional, these kind of guys who just have this completely blank kind of moral code. I’ll never forget the scene in Grosse Pointe Blank when John Cusack has a psych test and they identify a kind of amoral aspect about him. And I think one thing he prides himself on is his professionalism and they’re all such amateurs. The way you play him, you get the sense that he just wants to get on with whatever he’s got to do - that he would rather be lying on the beach somewhere but first he’s got to knock off these people.Įxactly. It’s not an outright comedy particularly but it’s definitely very light hearted. From the first read it was like, this is clearly a film that’s having a laugh. He’s this bizarre sight of a man in a black suit in the desert, which just seemed to me like a great fun thing to play. And he’s also a kind of great white shark. There’s a joyousness to be along for the ride because you kind of want him to do it. But there’s something kind of delightfully - because what he’s walking into is essentially a town of idiots that you kind of are quite happy to see dispatched. Having him be the way in for the audience, you know, it’s his back we ride into town on, made for an interesting dynamic in the movie because you’re essentially siding with the most evil character. I’ve been a lot of very corrupt characters, maybe not corrupt but certainly kind of amoral. I love the notion of taking the most sort of fundamentally corrupt character. This sixth feature from Australian director Kriv Stenders ( Red Dog) is a slick mix of black comedy and post-modern noir that makes Pegg the linchpin of a cast that includes Teresa Palmer, Alice Braga, Sullivan Stapleton and legendary Australian actor Bryan Brown and finds him acquitting himself quite well as the dapper, muscle car-driving, jocular yet deadly assassin. With his new movie, Kill Me Three Times, Pegg takes on a slightly darker role as Charlie Wolfe, a hitman who finds himself caught in a nest of betrayal, sex, greed and murder in a backwater Australian town. From his early days on the cult British TV series Spaced to the famed Cornetto Trilogy – Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz and The World’s End – with Edgar Wright, from his wry comic turn as Benji in the last two Mission: Impossible movies to his reinvention of the iconic Enterprise engineer Scotty in the rebooted Star Trek films, Simon Pegg is a fan favorite as well as a versatile actor whose presence is welcome in every film he does and whose love of genre material shines through in the many genre movies he has appeared in, written or both. ![]()
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