He'd come into the makeup trailer in the mornings and speak to us individually about what was coming up that day. He's incredibly sensitive to his performers and keen to give us the most comfortable and safe environment to create. Pegg: He's an awesome, creative, and the most mild-mannered, sweetest actor-friendly director I've ever worked with. Thompson: What was it like working with Peter and breaking down the research behind this? Jonathan Birch/Playground Entertainment/Peacock (Left to right) Melanie Gutteridge as Chrissie, Simon Pegg as Danny, Andrew Rothney as Rich, Alex. There's no doubt there were the influences of troll farms through Brexit, all the way through our election and the American elections, and they had an effect.
They see him as a troublemaker, and all he wants to do is make himself look good, but he's doing a very good job of it. That has changed slightly because he clearly has more territorial ambitions, but that seems to be how the world looks at him. Seemingly, the end game for Putin is to destabilize everywhere else so that his own regime looks preferable to his population. They are very well versed in our culture, terminology, and argot and start fights and cause division. Pegg: The operation in our show, a Russian troll farm, is where regular people sit and argue on social media. Thompson: We talk about hackers and Russian troll farms, especially when it comes to social media, but seeing them illustrated in shows like this makes that more real, and this portrayal seems pretty spot on. No doubt he is very adept in coding and the knowledge you need to have to be in that position of authority, but he's much more like the guy who is straight down the line. So yeah, I knew there was an odd parallel between Danny and Benji, and Danny effectively oversees the Benji's of GCHQ. I remember there was a point in this show when I said about the technology at GCHQ being air gapped, and I'd actually said the phrase in a Mission: Impossible scene two months earlier. Pegg: Funnily enough, I was using some similar terminology. Benji is obviously the cool tech side of things, and Danny is his brother who decided to listen to the careers teacher and go into government. Thompson: I did see a parallel between Danny and Benji in Mission Impossible. You don't usually need Stanislavskian techniques when you do Star Trek or Mission: Impossible, no disrespect to those, but with this, it felt like more of a responsibility to get it right. I got a two-page document all about Danny's life, where he was born and grew up, and all these details about him as a person, which enabled me to channel a genuine authenticity into the performance because I felt like I had a real backstory. Peter is incredibly thorough when it comes to his character building.
With this, it's a real-world drama, so we approached it with that degree of seriousness. Pegg: With pure entertainment, you're asking the audience to suspend their disbelief and, you know, buy into a world where a lot of very unlikely things happen. Was there much difference in that for you? However, this is an entirely different context. Thompson: You've done a lot of projects where getting facts and terms right are essential in whatever you are doing, being credible even in fantastical situations such as Star Trek or Mission: Impossible.
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