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If Simon Pegg were forced to name the collaborator who brought the warmest glow to his geek-culture-connoisseur’s heart, it wouldn’t be his “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” co-star Tom Cruise or the director Brad Bird. He would probably say Steven Spielberg, who directed him and Nick Frost in “The Adventures of Tintin” and caused some we’re-not-worthy moments. “We’d say, very casually: ‘So what was it like shooting “Close Encounters”? Was that fun?’ ” Pegg says. “He’d tell us a big, long story about it, and we’d just nod and be like, ‘Yeah, whatever.’ And then we’d get outside and scream and hold each other.
— Dave Itzkoff, “The Big Profile: Simon Pegg,” The One-Page Magazine, New York Times, 16 December 2011.
