![]() ![]() Me and Tom and Rebecca would all train together, and it was always really, really fun. We used to train together on Rogue Nation because we were all staying at the same hotel. Yeah! He famously has what we call the “pain cave” on set, which is the gym he uses when he’s at work he lets us all use that. How has Tom Cruise impacted your view on fitness? Do you ever work out with him on- or off-set? So, that requires you to just be in tip-top shape, really, because you never quite know what you’re going to get asked to do. It’s really good just to be match fit generally when you enter into a Mission shoot, and be ready for anything. I don’t mean dialogue, but, like, why don’t we do this, or why don’t you do that. There’s the script, and there’s the story, but there’s also a lot of room for improvisation along the way. Simon Pegg: Aside from the fact that being a field agent would require being in good shape, we never quite know what, exactly, we’re going to be doing when we shoot the movie. What’s the most important part, prep wise, getting ready to be part of that? Men's Health: Part of what makes the Mission: Impossible movies so much fun is that the action sequences all feel so real-probably because they basically are. In an interview conducted before SAG-AFTRA began its strike on Thursday, Pegg talked all things Mission: Impossible, his history with the franchise, and the power of Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie. And given all the time put in, it makes perfect sense that Benji can keep up with the world's greatest secret agent/stuntman. ParamountĪt this point, Benji has become a seasoned IMF agent, running missions with Ethan Hunt for well over a decade by the time we get to the newest film, Dead Reckoning Part One. Pegg and Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol. "I wouldn’t say it’s good for him getting older, because he doesn’t seem to get older," Pegg says. In that respect, Mission really turned my life around."įitness has continued to be part of Pegg's daily routine in the 12 years since Ghost Protocol's release, and he continues working out with Cruise to this day, including in the star's traveling on-set gym that he calls "the pain cave." Pegg has seen Cruise's equipment go from fairly barebones and bodyweight-focused early on to now the less physically-demanding ARX machines, which offer constant resistance but less wear and tear on the body. "I was training on the job, and ever since then, really, it’s been a huge part of my life to stay as fit and healthy as I possibly can. "In that edit, I lose about 20 pounds," he says with a hearty laugh. The next time you're rewatching Ghost Protocol, pay particular note to an early moment where Ethan Hunt (Cruise) and Benji are in Russia, walking through Red Square, before the scene cuts to the interior of the Kremlin. Pegg learned about Benji's new, more physically intensive job responsibilities, and started his training on the job, making evident progress throughout filming. ![]() He started taking his training as seriously, as, well, an IMF field agent would. WHEN SIMON Pegg appeared in 2006's Mission: Impossible III-his first of now five outings as IMF Agent Benji Dunn in the long-running action franchise-he was, in his own words, "fairly out of shape." Sure, he'd already played a ruthless police constable protagonist in one of history's greatest action comedies (2007's Hot Fuzz), but it was only when the opportunity for Benji to go from the guy at the computer to a proper gun-toting field agent came in 2011's Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol that his attitude toward personal fitness really changed.
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