{"id":10577,"date":"2010-10-25T14:31:59","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10577"},"modified":"2010-10-25T14:31:59","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T21:31:59","slug":"pegg-regrets-saying-no-to-tarantino","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/pegg-regrets-saying-no-to-tarantino\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegg Regrets Saying No To Tarantino"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had he made a different choice, <strong>Simon Pegg<\/strong> might have had a part in a movie which was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture.<\/p>\n<p>Pegg was offered the role of Lt. Archie Hicox in <strong>Quentin Tarantino<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Inglourious Basterds <\/em>as well as a role as Inspector Thompson in <strong>Steven Spielberg<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Peggsmall4.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10578\" title=\"Peggsmall\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Peggsmall4.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"110\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a>&#8220;It was a horrible decision to make,&#8221; said Pegg. &#8220;I remember sitting on my own in a hotel room for an hour, having to decide which one to do. It was agony.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pegg chose the Spielberg film, which will release next year. In <em>The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn<\/em>, Tintin and his friends set off to find a treasure left behind by Tintin&#8217;s ancestor Sir Francis Haddock. Pegg and <strong>Nick Frost<\/strong> will play bumbling detectives Thompson and Thomson.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had he made a different choice, Simon Pegg might have had a part in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3424,2572],"class_list":["post-10577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-inglourious-basterds","tag-pegg"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10577"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10579,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10577\/revisions\/10579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}