Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike reflect on happiness
- 10 years ago
Following a sad start to the week in Hollywood, talk turned to happiness with British actors Simon Pegg and Rosamund Pike.
After all, that's what their new comedy-drama 'Hector and the Search for Happiness' is all about.
The film sees Pegg's character, Hector, a psychiatrist, leave his safe and successful London life, setting off on a quest around the world in search of what it means to be happy.
On the red carpet at the film's UK premiere, Pegg explained...
SOUNDBITE Actor, Simon Pegg, saying (English)
"Yeah, it kind of helped me to understand a little bit, I think, in terms of what it is and what we're all looking for when it comes to happiness, you know, that it actually isn't an end, it's not something that you get to, it's something that you experience along the way and you have to kind of experience everything in order to feel it. You know, you have to be unhappy and you have to be scared and you have to be abandoned and all this kind of stuff becaus
After all, that's what their new comedy-drama 'Hector and the Search for Happiness' is all about.
The film sees Pegg's character, Hector, a psychiatrist, leave his safe and successful London life, setting off on a quest around the world in search of what it means to be happy.
On the red carpet at the film's UK premiere, Pegg explained...
SOUNDBITE Actor, Simon Pegg, saying (English)
"Yeah, it kind of helped me to understand a little bit, I think, in terms of what it is and what we're all looking for when it comes to happiness, you know, that it actually isn't an end, it's not something that you get to, it's something that you experience along the way and you have to kind of experience everything in order to feel it. You know, you have to be unhappy and you have to be scared and you have to be abandoned and all this kind of stuff becaus