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The actor told The Sunday Times that the Jaws filmmaker suggested he and Frost play the Thompson Twins when he visited the set of the 3-D motion capture movie.
"Steven's smoking a stogy, cap on head, like he's always been since I was a baby," recalled Pegg. "I shook his hand and chatted about films. He gave me the mo-cap (motion-capture) camera, and I had a play around with it. Then he said, 'Hey, maybe you and Nick Frost could play the Thompson Twins.' In Tintin. A Spielberg movie. To work with him is beyond..."
A report in the Los Angeles Times last Friday revealed that studio Universal had sidelined the Spielberg/Peter Jackson trilogy due to its spiralling budget.
Tintin, which was scheduled to commence production in October, will now seek financing from another studio.
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