Mark is joined by actor Simon Pegg, who talks about his role in Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning, and reflects on his career from Spaced and the Cornetto Trilogy all the way to Hollywood.

This episode of Kermode On Film was recorded live at the BFI Southbank on 9 June 2025, and was the second half of that date's Mark Kermode Live in 3D show.

Thanks for listening!

Films and shows mentioned in this episode:

• Mission: Impossible
• Spaced
• Hot Fuzz
• Shaun of the Dead
• The World's end
• Meantime
• Syd & Nancy
• City of the Living Dead
• Dawn of the Dead
• Star Trek
• Spaced
• Star Wars
• Guest House Paradiso
• The Young Ones
• Doctor Who

People mentioned in this episode:

• Eddie Hamilton
• Tom Cruise
• Mike Leigh
• Gary Oldman
• Nick Frost
• Lucio Fulci
• Edgar Wright
• Rich Fulcher
• Jessica Hynes
• Leonard Nimoy
• Peter Mayhew
• Joonas Viljami Suotamo
• Rick Mayall
• Ade Edmondson

The opening title sequence of Kermode on Film features quotes from:

• Mary Poppins – Julie Andrews
• Nope – Keke Palmer
• Withnail & I – Richard E. Grant
• The Exorcist – Ellen Burstyn and Linda Blair

We love these films. We urge you to seek them out and watch them—again and again. They are masterpieces.

Kermode on Film is an HLA Agency production.

This episode was edited by Alex Archbold Jones.

Cover photo by Julie Edwards

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