Simon Pegg Talks Luck, Mission: Impossible 7 & 8, and Blade Runner 2049

With director Peggy Holmes’ Luck now streaming on Apple TV , I recently spoke to Simon Pegg about voicing the black cat named Bob in the animated feature. During the wide-ranging and fun interview, Pegg talked about his Scottish accent in the film, what drew him to the project, what’s the difference between making a project in America versus the United Kingdom, why he won’t do more Spaced, meeting BTS with his daughter, his love of Blade Runner 2049, and a project from his past that he’d like more people to see. In addition, he reveals no one told him the title of Mission: Impossible 7 (Dead Reckoning Part One), so he learned it like all of us from watching the trailer. If you haven’t seen the trailer, Luck follows Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world. Her chaotic days are filled with an unimaginable number of mishaps, from her bicycle pump breaking after getting a flat tire, to her toast inevitably landing jam-side down. But that all changes when she finds a real lucky penny accidentally