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Chris Pine Says Re-Create William Shatner Performance Would be a Mistake

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By GustavoLeao / 18:31, 21 January 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

Entertainment Weekly caught up with actor Chris Pine at the Sundance festival, where he talked about his role as the new James Tiberius Kirk in the next Star Trek movie. Here are few excerpts from the article. Beware of minor spoilers.

You're shooting some small movie, right?

Yes, it's a small independent back in Los Angeles. It's kind of like Star Wars and Spaceballs combined. I think they're calling it Star Trek. It's going very well. We're having a lot of fun. It comes out later this year, sometime near Christmastime. I think people will really enjoy it.


You wear a wig in your Sundance movie. Do you wear a wig as Captain Kirk?


Uh, I do not wear a wig in Star Trek like I did in Bottle Shock, thank God. Bottle Shock will be the last wig movie I ever do.


Are you feeling any pressure to evoke William Shatner?

I actually feel the exact opposite. I think the biggest mistake I could ever do would be to try to re-create what Mr. Shatner did. There are certain qualities that Kirk has that are vital for someone who is a leader of men. And those qualities, I definitely wanted to take from what Mr. Shatner did in the original series. But my job is to take something new, to take that and build upon it, really do my own thing. I just feel no pressure when it comes to that.


Is the pressure coming more from the fanboys and their off-the-charts expectations?

Yeah, sure, the Internet is not my friend in this case. Best to stay away. I can understand, I don't have that many credits and people are very worried that their Kirk is going to be destroyed. But I can only say that we're having a great time. J.J. [Abrams, the director] has been wonderful and the cast is phenomenal. I think what we're doing is very special.


Have you talked with Shatner?

I have not talked to Shatner. I wrote him a letter early on in the process and corresponded that way. I got a letter back from him, which is very nice. And I've met Mr. [Leonard] Nimoy a couple of times. He's been on set and we have a couple of scenes in the film, which will be nice, and I'm excited for those.

The full interview can be found here.



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By: GustavoLeao (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 14:27:26 on Jan 22, 2008

Actually, no.

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By: NKDi (Odo's file, contact) @ 00:31:06 on Jan 22, 2008

Yeah sometimes the headlines here are a bit funny.

I really like the ones where "suchandsuch actor talks about new Star Trek movie". Then you go to the interview and all they say is that they are doing a Star Trek movie and the rest is about something else.

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