Simon Pegg’s boozing almost made starring in a Tom Cruise action film a mission impossible. The Shaun of the Dead star felt so alone and panicky shooting Mission Impossible III that he hit the bottle.
The British actor, 51, said: “I remember being stuck in this hotel room in Beverly Hills. I would drink a lot. I drank my whole mini-bar because I wanted to not feel that way. “By the time I came on set to do my scenes I was kind of a wreck because I was super-anxious and I’d been drinking.” He described booze as “so self-destructive”.
He said: “All those fixes are so temporary, they don’t solve the problem they just dam it up. “When I knew I was in trouble I just kicked the can down the street by having a pint.
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