With director Peggy Holmes’ Luck now streaming on Apple TV+, I recently spoke to Simon Pegg about voicing the black cat named Bob in the animated feature. During the wide-ranging and fun interview, Pegg talked about his Scottish accent in the film, what drew him to the project, what’s the difference between making a project in America versus the United Kingdom, why he won’t do more Spaced, meeting BTS with his daughter, his love of Blade Runner 2049, and a project from his past that he’d like more people to see. In addition, he reveals no one told him the title of Mission: Impossible 7 (Dead Reckoning Part One), so he learned it like all of us from watching the trailer.
If you haven’t seen the trailer, Luck follows Sam Greenfield, the unluckiest person in the world. Her chaotic days are filled with an unimaginable number of mishaps, from her bicycle pump breaking after getting a flat tire, to her toast inevitably landing jam-side down. But that all changes when she finds a real lucky penny accidentally dropped by Pegg’s character. As you can guess, things don’t go according to plan, and she’s accidentally stumbles into the never-before-seen Land of Luck where good luck and bad luck are created, managed, and distributed by a company of magical creatures. While there she tries to find her lost penny, bring some good luck home for her best friend, and not get caught.
Luck also features the voices of Eva Noblezada, Adelynn Spoon, Flula Borg, Jane Fonda, Whoopi Goldberg, Lil Rel Howery, Colin O’Donoghue, and John Ratzenberger. The film is produced by Skydance Animation. Producers on the film include former Pixar head John Lasseter as well as David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Davis Eisenmann via Skydance Animation. The screenplay is written by Kiel Murray, Johnathan Aibel, and Glenn Berger.
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