Mission Impossible 3: A Memoir of Depression

Pegg had not long before done an audition for a small part in the Mission Impossible franchise, something involving a helicopter. Ricky Gervais was set to play Cruz's sidekick Benji Dunn, but dropped out and Pegg was given the nod. By 2005, when he landed in Los Angeles to start the shoot, he could barely hold it together. I was not in a good place emotionally and physically, Pegg recalls. It was a weird thing as well, because the dreams I'd had as a kid were manifesting and I wasn't happy and I couldn't figure out why. And that was down to personal things, depression. He had suffered bouts of depression since he was