You don’t have to be in pain to be a great artist.” He mentions a scene where Theo is in the studio with a band, mixing a track. Pegg also liked Lost Transmissions’s message: “It tries to dismantle that myth that madness inspires great art. ‘It was great to play the whole gamut’: Pegg and Lost Transmissions director Katharine O’Brien. I love both styles of filming, but for different reasons.” We’re shooting every hour that we have, we all eat together, it’s very guerrilla style and intense. But with something like Lost Transmissions, we get there, I get changed in my trailer and then I don’t see it for the whole day. “I love doing those big movies, because they’re fun, and because of the scale and the sheer ridiculousness of that kind of movie-making machine. “Everything is so huge on Mission Impossible, it’s like marshalling an army,” he says. With MI, whole days can go by when he’s had his makeup done and is waiting in his trailer, but not called to act. He came to Lost Transmissions straight from filming the sixth Mission Impossible film, Fallout, a very different experience. Pegg enjoyed this – “it was great to play the whole gamut” – and also enjoyed the intensity of making the film. At one point he almost crashes a car, despite being in the back seat later, he ends up homeless on Skid Row. He cries, rages, schemes, gives almost-lucid rants about love and time and vibrations. Theo’s descent is upsetting and frustrating it allows Pegg to show his full acting chops. What’s more interesting for his fans is that, in Lost Transmissions, he’s allowed to be something more. Pegg himself is charming and funny, and we’ve seen him be a version of this in many films. O’Brien wrote it from experience – an English friend of hers went through much of what Pegg does in the film – and the film portrays Theo as a charming, funny man. Juno Temple plays up-and-coming singer-songwriter Hannah, who has her own struggles with depression, but tries to look after Theo and Alexandra Daddario is a pop star for whom Hannah writes songs. Written and directed by Katharine O’Brien and filmed in Los Angeles in 2018, it co-stars Pegg as Theo, a music producer whose mental health suddenly and drastically deteriorates into schizophrenia. This, too, doesn’t seem like such a bad thing: unlike Pegg’s blockbuster work, Lost Transmissions is a film that’s suited to more intimate viewing. There’s not much I’ve missed, other than friends.”īut no cinema, of course: which means that his latest film, Lost Transmissions, will come out digitally instead. Unlike some other actors, he’s not been singing for solidarity on social media. Not a chore, but fun.” Other lockdown bonuses? He’s perfected his kimchi pancake, a favourite of Maureen’s made short films with his daughter Tilly and watched tons of TV (he loved the BBC/FX series Devs and Dave). The writing was like a tap, I couldn’t turn it off. “It was like, get up in the morning, have a little workout, and then write for the whole day. “I had the focus that I just never usually have for writing,” says Pegg. In the first six weeks of lockdown, he co-wrote a full eight-hour TV series, with writer-director friend the ex-Kula-Shaker singer Crispian Mills. He has a production company, Stolen Picture, which he set up with long-time pal Nick Frost, so that means phone calls and online meetings plus, he writes.
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