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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Stuart Heritage

He can’t handle the truth! Did Simon Pegg really reveal Tom Cruise’s darkest secret?

Top mates … Simon Pegg and Tom Cruise.
Top mates … Simon Pegg and Tom Cruise. Photograph: Ethan Miller/Getty Images for CinemaCon

If you were online at all this weekend, you may very well have noticed an interview that Simon Pegg gave to The Times (£). It didn’t offer much new information when it comes to Pegg (he had an alcohol problem, he wants to be taken seriously, he has tattoos now). However, it did appear to reveal something new about Pegg’s frequent co-star Tom Cruise: he is compulsively unable to display contrition.

“The best thing he taught me is never to accept responsibility for a mistake,” Pegg said. “If something goes wrong and it’s his fault, he’ll flatly deny it. And then if someone corrects him, instead of saying sorry, he’ll just say: ‘Yeah,’ and wink at me … He maintains his authority by never being to blame for anything.”

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