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By GustavoLeao / 16:16, 26 March 2008 / Feature Films
The latest issue of Star Trek Magazine, out in the U.S. and the U.K., features an exclusive interview with Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin, the new Pavel Chekov. Here are a few more excerpts from the interview, cortesy of Sci Fi Pulse.
Star Trek Magazine: What interests you about Chekov as a character? You said you're watching the old episodes of the original series. What are you getting out of them, in terms of the characterization and the accent, especially since you are a Russian?
Anton Yelchin: I never had an accent. The point at which I had the biggest accent was when I was two or three, when I was learning to speak English. I obviously will have an accent. Chekov without an accent makes no sense. I know the Russian accent so well because I have so many family members and family friends who speak with one, but there are also certain things that Walter Koenig does specifically, like his version of it, that I have been picking up and studying to incorporate, because I think they're really important. It really is Chekov. It's not just some Russian guy. It's Chekov. Specifically the word ‘very'. He says ‘wery'. It's a W instead of a V. And the way he says ‘keptin'... All these things, I think, are important to take note of and use.
My personal opinion of Chekov in the original series is he's just a really funny little guy, and that's what we're going to do. I watched my favourite Star Trek episode yesterday, The Apple. The whole episode, everyone is doing something that is relevant to their mission, and he's just out there with his girlfriend.
He's supposed to be this brilliant navigator and it's in combination with this wonderful sense of humour and weirdness. In The Apple he starts talking about the Garden of Eden being outside of Moscow. Great little things like that I really like about him.
Star Trek Magazine: What do you make of all the other elements of beaming into the Star Trek Universe like being an action figure, or going to conventions?
Anton Yelchin: I really don't even know. That's never happened to me before. I guess I'll just get to that bridge when I cross it, I suppose. It should be interesting. If I end up an action figure, hopefully I'll be pleasantly surprised. Hopefully I will make the three-year-old Anton that used to play with action figures proud.
The original report can be found at Sci Fi Pulse.
To read the full article, get the new issue of Star Trek Magazine at your local newsstand[
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Hope someone gives this kid a little Cold War history lesson, since that is also important to understanding Chekhov. So many of Pavel's little remarks about this or that really being invented in Russia was typical of the American TV stereotype of Soviet propaganda in the 60s.
Someone also ought to make him watch a few eps of the Monkees to understand that Chekhov was a Davy Jones knockoff, who was himself a Paul McCartney knockoff.
(I don't know how anyone can understand Star Trek who doesnt remember the 60s, since the entire series was a reflectio of those times.)
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