Simon Pegg reminisced about his time filming Doctor Who while at the Fan Expo Boston convention I attended on 9 August 2025.

Pegg played The Editor, a sinister figure in the 2005 Doctor Who episode The Long Game, which aired during the first season of the revived series.

He was asked about his experiences working with Billie Piper again on Doctor Who after previously working with her on a comedy sketch for the BBC series Big Train in 1998.

“I love Billie. She’s so fantastic. We had a really good time shooting Doctor Who. That was… You know, that was before… Obviously it came back with a vengeance but, at the time, it was just about, ‘Oh we’re making Doctor Who again’. Now it’s been back for a very long time.”

Pegg spoke further on his experiences filming Doctor Who.

“You know, it was in Cardiff and I saw Daleks and stuff there and it was very exciting. And Chris Eccleston is obviously a great actor. There was a real sense of excitement about it. We were trying new things with Doctor Who. And I remember it being a sort of really happy and exciting time. They dyed my hair, my eyebrows — everything blond. It was really weird but it was fun. It was fun to play a villain in a show I watched when I was a kid.”

Meeting his favourite Doctor was a highlight of Pegg’s childhood.

“I was a Tom Baker fan myself. I met Tom Baker when I was eight and he signed my copy of The Talons of Weng-Chiang; ‘To Simon Pegg from Tom Baker 888’ and he gave me a Jelly Baby — and we certainly didn’t know that I would be in Doctor Who!”

Simon Pegg played the quick-witted Benji Dunn alongside Tom Cruise in the 2025 film Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning and has lent his voice to the upcoming film Ice Age 6 set for release in 2026.