![]() ![]() “When I watch that film back, I can see where I was then, which was fairly lost, and unhappy, and an alcoholic,” he says. But after flying to Los Angeles to shoot Mission: Impossible III (2006), things started to unravel. ![]() There was no time to stop and thinkabout it – he had a career to build and countless projects to get through. He would feel sad, he would have a drink, he would feel better. Pegg, now 48, says he had been aware that he suffered from depression since he was 18, but until 2005 had always dealt with it by self-medicating. It was the start of a long and tortuous journey. This should be making me feel happy,” he says. “I would feel like – I’m in a film with Tom Cruise, I’ve got the part of Scotty in Star Trek. It was a tale into which drink-fuelled oblivion did not fit too neatly. His puppyish enthusiasm and permanent “Am I really here with all these famous people?” expression only added to the narrative. His rise is often portrayed like a film script, as if he didn’t so much work his way up to a career as found it tucked inside a Wonka bar. The narrative with Pegg has always been a heartwarming one: young sci-fi geek turns his obsession into a comedy career, writes a brilliant sitcom ( Spaced) and a fun comedy zombie film ( Shaun of the Dead), before somehow ending up starring in the same kind of space adventure blockbusters he grew up with. “It owned me.” Suddenly, this roof terrace in east London doesn’t seem so sunny. And how he spent years trying to hide it, and how he nearly lost everything, and how he is lucky to even be alive. And then he sits down to talk about depression. ![]()
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