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J.J. Abrams Says Leonard Nimoy is a Major Presence in New Star Trek Movie

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By GustavoLeao / 00:33, 16 July 2008 / Feature Films

ComingSoon.net posted a new interview with Star Trek movie director J.J. Abrams. Here are few excerpts.

CS: You've said that you didn't start out as an uber-fan of "Star Trek," but you quickly became a fan. Can you talk in general terms about what you fell in love with about the whole franchise?

Abrams:
I fell in love with the relationships between the characters. I fell in love with the characters. The idea of - it's so funny because you hear something so often and it loses it's meaning. But "space, the final frontier" - if you actually consider space as uncharted territory there's something about the idea of these people, because any ship flying by isn't going to get you excited. It's who's on the ship that matters. I feel like these characters actually going out into that nothingness and finding something is great. Having lived with it now and gotten to know the characters and worked with amazing actors who portrayed them, it made me fall in love with that notion, that idea that for some reason never struck me the way that "Twilight Zone" did.

CS: What can you say about about working with Leonard Nimoy?


Abrams:
It was really just a dream experience, working with him. He is everything you want him to be. He's funny and incredibly thoughtful and was surprisingly open and receptive to direction. He's just got an amazing wife and family and working with him was literally... Like the other day we were doing some ADR and he was there and because we weren't shooting anymore I was standing there and I just looked at him while he was doing his thing. I wanted to burn it into my head. It was so great to get to work with that guy. He's just an amazing man and is terrific in the movie.

CS: Is he a major presence in the film?

Abrams:
Yeah. I think he's a major presence in any scene he's in. He's terrific.

The full interview, in which Abrams also talks about Jennifer Morrison as Kirk's mother, can be found here.



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Nimoy has done it right. | Report this post to moderator
By: cdydatzigs (Odo's file, contact) @ 21:51:46 on Jul 16, 2008

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He deserves his goodbye to Spock and to Trek and the fans.

He had a very capable goodbye in Star Trek VI. In fact, that is the very reason why he did not agree to have a cameo role in Generations just to collect a paycheck. He believed in the integrity of the ending that Undiscovered Country provided, and that was that. His work in TNG and this film are just a continuation of his character's life beyond the 23rd century.

As for him being "under-utilized"? That is by choice. He loved the stage and being behind the camera (moving and still), first and foremost. As far as he is concerned, Los Angeles doesn't owe him anything more on screen -- and vice versa.

-- Steve


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RE: Nimoy has done it right. by Capricorn Two @ 05:04:53 on Jul 17

Nimoy is back !!! | Report this post to moderator
By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:27:06 on Jul 16, 2008

Cant wait to see Mr Nimoy back as Ambassador Spock. I think this, more than anything else, is what excites me the most about this new movie.

Gustavo

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