Simon Pegg's 10 Best Roles

3. Herbert Trubshaw - Box Trolls

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Although voice acting is a popular path for many actors, very few find their way into stop-motion animation.

A little antiquated these days, with an incredible demand of labour and time, stop-motion is still a beloved corner of the film industry. 2014's The Boxtrolls is an excellent example of its capability, with a fantastic story and a surprisingly famous cast in a beautifully stylised setting.

Pegg's role as the protagonist's long-lost and certifiably insane father, Herbert Trubshaw, gives us his maddest performance by far. An already eccentric figure as an inventor in this Tim-Burton-crossed-with-Aardman world, after being abducted and hung upside down for several years he was, without a shadow of a doubt, completely nuts.

This character element is taken by Pegg with gusto, and aside from proving his capability as a voice actor in his more lucid moments, his role in Boxtrolls is one bursting with genuine enjoyment.

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My passion for all things Sci Fi goes back to my earliest days, when old VHS copies of Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet gripped my tiny mind with their big, noisy vehicles and terrifying puppets. I'd like to say my taste got more refined over the years, but between the Warhammer, Space Dandy and niche Star Wars EU books, perhaps it just got broader. I've enjoyed games of all calibre since I figured out that dice weren't just for eating, and have written prose ever since I was left unsupervised with some crayons next to a white wall. I got away with it by calling it "schoolwork" for as long as I could, and university helped me keep the charade going a while longer. Since my work began to get published, it's made all those long hours repainting the walls seem worth it.