Digital Spy reported today that Simon Pegg had a weird response to being cast as Scotty in the film, Star Trek, which effectively launched his career into the area of blockbuster movies, a coveted spot in the film business certainly.
Simon first worked with JJ Abrams in Mission Impossible: 3 before he went on to become the Starship Enterprise engineer. According to Pegg, he was hoping to get the offer for the movie role over dinner, rather than in a casual email.
Simon said that when he got off a flight from New York City to London, United Kingdom, he opened up his phone and saw there was an email from JJ that said, “do you want to play Scotty?” Cinemablend reported today that Simon was “almost annoyed” by the email.
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