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TIL after the success of ‘Shaun of the Dead’, Simon Pegg was asked if would he would leave England for Hollywood. He replied, “It’s not like we’re going to go away and do, I don’t know, Mission: Impossible III.” Two years later, he was cast as Benji in Mission Impossible III

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