Mission Impossible and Star Trek actor Simon Pegg has been discussing all things Star Wars on the latest episode of The Adam Buxton Podcast – and he's made quite the revelation.

Speaking to Hot Fuzz co-star Buxton, Pegg reveals that the imagination of George Lucas, the man who created the franchise, is "missing" from the current "sequel trilogy" (episodes 7,8 and 9).

Simon, who once blasted The Phantom Menace as a "jumped-up firework display of a toy advert", did, in fact, star in The Force Awakens as bad boy Unkar Plutt. So what's his beef?

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The Hot Fuzz star came to an epiphany about how he felt now about Lucas and his worldwide hit: "I must admit, watching the last Star Wars film [The Last Jedi], the overriding feeling I got when I came out was, 'I miss George Lucas.'

"For all the complaining that I'd done about him in the prequels, there was something amazing about his imagination."

Pegg, who has come to regret his very vocal Jar Jar hate, has been cast in a plethora of films by JJ Abrams (the aforementioned Mission Impossible, Star Trek and Star Wars) and we wonder how the director would react to his friend's closing comment on George Lucas' absence from the sequel trilogy:

"I do feel like his voice is missing from the current ones."

As Jar Jar himself might say, 'Meesa Oucha.'

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Adam Buxton, who will reunite with his former comedy wife, Joe Cornish, in the movie The Kid Who Would Be King, asked if Simon had ever met Lucas.

Pegg recalled meeting the director at the premiere of 2005's Revenge of the Sith: "I sort of went to say 'Hello!' to him. He turned around and I saw the weariness in his eyes like, 'Here's another thirty-something fanboy who's going to tell me how much I changed his life.'"

The Spaced man continued, "He was talking to Ron Howard and I think he'd seen Shaun of the Dead 'cos he immediately went, 'Oh hey, Shaun of the Dead!' and shook my hand. And George Lucas immediately changed his demeanour."

Pegg revealed that Lucas was "candid" with him, saying that the man behind the beloved space opera advised: "Don't be making the same film that you made thirty years ago thirty years from now."

We'll remind readers that Revenge of the Sith came out 28 years after the first Star Wars film...

You can listen to full episode of The Adam Buxton Podcast with Simon Pegg here.

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