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TIL that after starring in SHAUN OF THE DEAD, Simon Pegg was asked by an interviewer interviewer asked if he planned to carry on making films in Britain, to which he replied: ‘Well, I’m not about to go and star in MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE III.’

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