USA: Simon Pegg talks about the dangers of protracted adolescence at "The World's End" film premiere

Record ID: 221140

  • Title: USA: Simon Pegg talks about the dangers of protracted adolescence at "The World's End" film premiere
  • Date: 22nd August 2013
  • Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (AUGUST 21, 2013) (REUTERS) PAN OUT FROM "THE WORLD'S END" MOVIE POSTER TO WIDE OF CARPET "THE WORLD'S END" SIGNAGE ROSAMUND PIKE, "THE WORLD'S END" CO-STAR, POSING FOR PHOTOS "THE WORLD'S END" DIRECTOR, EDGAR WRIGHT, POSING FOR PHOTOS SIMON PEGG TALKING TO REPORTER JACK BLACK AND WIFE, TANYA HADEN, POSING FOR PHOTOS WITH HADEN REMOVI
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  • Country: USA
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  • Story Text: Actors Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Rosamund Pike and director Edgar Wright hit the red carpet for the film premiere of "The World's End" in Los Angeles on Wednesday (August 21).
    The dark British comedy, which follows "Shaun of the Dead" and "Hot Fuzz," is the final installment in what Wright's calling the "Cornetto Trilogy," in an homage to the frozen dessert.

    "The silliest connection is the use of ice cream throughout and fence jumping, but beyond that they're really three films about growing up," said Wright. "They're films about the perils of perpetual adolescence and the idea of the individual versus the collective. There are some deeper themes beyond the pratfalls."

    "The World's End" involves five childhood friends returning to their hometown for a massive pub crawl. As they revisit the same pubs they went to 20 years ago, they realize they have embarked on a journey to save humankind from a robot invasion. Pegg shines as an obnoxiously immature 40-something desperately trying to cling to his youth.

    "Home is always a time, it's not a place," said Pegg on the film's meaning. "You can't recapture a time. You can go back to where that thing happened but it's never the same and I think that's what this film is about, the dangers of nostalgia. If you're too busy looking back, then you're not happy in the now and it's important to be happy where you are right now."

    "We all know that kid who kind of burned a bit brighter than everybody else, who everybody wanted to follow, who was kind of careering in some sort of dazzling way to the brink of destruction the whole time," added Pike. "That's so glorious when you're 16 and becomes somehow so sad when you're 40 and all the promise never came good."
    All three of the films chronicled Pegg and Frost facing a cataclysmic turn of events - a zombie apocalypse in "Shaun of the Dead," a murderous neighborhood watch in "Hot Fuzz" and the robot invasion in "World's End."

    "On the outside, our films are a horror film, a cop film and a science-fiction film," said Pegg. "But really the films are about friendship and about protracted adolescence and facing off against a collective that might swallow your identity. Those kinds of things don't really sell movies, but if you dress them up nice as a horror film or something, then you could reach more people. Also we're big fans of those types of films. We've grown up watching those films. We're fans of popular cinema and it's what we know. That's our palate, that's our metaphorical landscape."

    "The World's End" hits U.S. theaters on August 23.
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