has dashed the hopes of fans that he or Mission: Impossible co-star Ving Rhames are similar to their onscreen counterparts as the latest installment in the franchise approaches.
comes to UK cinemas on July 10 and has been split into two parts to mark the finale for ’s iconic character Ethan Hunt.
Rhames, Hayley Atwell, Pom Klemtieff, and Rebecca Ferguson as the IMF team ‘track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity if it falls into the wrong hands,’ according to the film’s synopsis.
Pegg, 53, reprises his role of Benji Dunn, a technician turned field agent, while Rhames, 64, returns as hacker Stickell, both of whom are, obviously, very tech-savvy characters.
Alas, the same can’t be said for the characters off-camera.
Chatting exclusively to Metro.co.uk at the premiere of Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, Pegg was full of praise for his co-star as he lifted the lid on themajor differences between him and his character.
When asked if any of their problem-solving skills have transferred over into their real lives, Pegg began: ‘I don’t know… Ving, I love him so much. He texted me this morning when I woke up and I got this little text saying, “Having fun?”.
‘He’s the coolest guy on Earth. He’s Marsellus Wallace from Pulp Fiction. And he always kind of just keeps – he’s quite aloof, he won’t come to these kinds of things, he’s got family and lives in LA.
‘You know, I don’t think Ving knows how to use his , if I’m honest. I’m pretty bad – I love a , but we’re both just very good actors and we know how to pretend to look like we know what we’re doing.’
Pegg agreed that it all comes down to ‘the magic of cinema.’
‘Ving is so cool, he can just do anything and make it cool, you know? He’s the boss.’
After playing Benji since Mission: Impossible III, Pegg now also has an opportunity to put more of himself into the role.
Asked whether he now gets involved in the pitching for Benji, he said: ‘Certainly on set, when we’re in the moment, sometimes McQ [writer-director Christopher McQuarrie] will encourage us to throw a few lines in.
‘But MQ is one of the greatest writers working, he’s an Oscar-winning writer. He’s a master storyteller. He has the whole thing in his head before we start shooting.
‘We always go out for dinner and he tells me what the story is going to be, and he’ll get it all down to a point. But then a lot of the time, he’ll arrive somewhere and he’ll let the location tell him how the story is going to be told.
‘Like the Rome car chase – he got to Rome and he kind of felt it out. It’s a great way to work because it keeps everything so fresh, and so sort of immediate.’
‘I love working with him,’ he praised.
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One hits UK cinemas on Wednesday July 10.
