Simon Pegg Explains How He Became Nick Frost’s Twin In ‘Tintin’
Published by Brian Warmoth on Friday, May 8, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Source: SplashPage MTV
Simon Pegg“Star Trek” cast newcomer Simon Pegg will have another established audience to please when Steven Spielberg & Peter Jackson’s “The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn” comes to theaters in 2010. Pegg appears undaunted by the skeptical mumbles he’s heard, however, and left recent shots for the film impressed by the special effects process used to turn him and his fellow on-screen twin Nick Frost into nearly identical characters based on motion-capture work.
“We shot earlier this year, here in L.A.,” Pegg told Collider.com. “Fascinating experience just in terms of how it worked.”
The “Shaun of the Dead” star laughed off doubts he originally read about the movie and explained exactly how he and Frost became the Thomson and Thompson twins for the new film franchise based on the internationally renowned comics by Belgian creator Hergé.
“Obviously, the minute it was announced everyone was like, ‘How are Nick Frost and Simon Pegg going to play twins?’” he recalled. “Once you don the suits and see yourself rendered on the monitor, you can actually see yourself as the character.”
The images he saw on set were unfinished, but he was impressed by what he saw.
“It’s still like a very good N64 game of yourself,” he said.
And as for any concerns that many filmgoers may not already be versed in “Tintin” comics, Pegg had a response prepared for that as well with high expectations for Spielberg and Jackson’s trilogy.
“There’s been some talk that no one knows who Tintin is,” he explained, “which seems to be a really odd thing to say because no one knew who Indiana Jones was in 1979.”
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