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7. Simon Pegg - The Original Hughie Campbell
For fans of the comics, it was a welcome surprise to see Simon Pegg turn up as Hughie's father. In Garth Ennis's comic series, Hughie Campbell is actually modelled on Pegg, who apparently captured the "innocence but tough determination" of the character.
Unfortunately, by the time it became time to make the show on Amazon Prime, Pegg was deemed too old for the role as originally intended. Eric Kripke decided to deal with this development by casting him as Hughie's dad instead, meaning he still got a chance to be a part of show - albeit not as the character many fans were hoping for.
On another note, one scene near the end of the first season has Pegg share a brief but cool interaction with Karl Urban, with whom he worked on the recent Star Trek movie trilogy.