Actor Simon Pegg says Tom Cruise is "far more human" in real life and thinks he is "kind of vulnerable."

The 45-year-old Pegg thinks "there is a lot of mythology" surrounding his `Mission: Impossible - Rogue nation` co-star and insists he is "different" than his public persona, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

"I love Tom. I love working with him because he's a really interesting person. I feel really privileged to get to see the real man, you know? There's a lot of mythology about him, a lot of speculation about the kind of myth that surrounds him that people are very keen to believe,` said Pegg.

"When you actually meet the man himself, he's different. He's far more human. He's very fun. He's kind of vulnerable, and he's a human being, and it's great to see. But he can also be Tom Cruise when he wants to be.

`I say to him, I say, 'Do Tom Cruise.' And puts his sunglasses on and smiles. 'There's Tom Cruise!' And he knows it! It's a brilliant capacity to have. He's cultivated a certain kind of persona which enables him to be the movie star that he is, but at the heart of it is a human being,` he added.