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Chris Pine Says He Modeled His Young Kirk After Harrison Ford

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By GustavoLeao / 22:36, 10 March 2008 / Star Trek: Nemesis

IGN posted a new interview with Star Trek star Chris Pine, who plays the new James T. Kirk in the upcoming Trek movie prequel. Here are few excerpts.

Pine says that in seeking inspiration for his Kirk, he has not looked to William Shatner's Captain Kirk, but to Harrison Ford's Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

When asked who he would like his incarnation of young Kirk to most resemble, Pine responded, "I would definitely say Harrison Ford in either Indiana Jones or Star Wars. What Harrison Ford is so great at doing is bringing that quality to his characters that if they could be anywhere else in the world they would be there, but he is not, he just is in the middle of s*** and he has to figure out a way of dealing with it so that he can go back to doing whatever the hell he was doing before the film started.

"I've always loved that quality about him in Star Wars, this sense of absolute grumpy manner; the accidental hero. Not to say that I modeled my version of James T Kirk on anything in particular but I think I definitely have wanted to bring that kind of Harrison Ford humour to Kirk."

The original article is here.

You can watch Harrison Ford back in action as Indiana Jones in the trailer of the upcoming sequel Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull at YouTube.



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By: Terry212 (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 06:51:26 on Mar 11, 2008

I agree...Han Solo isn't so far a cry from Captain Kirk. You can say he was obsessed with duty but he was always rebellious in the movies and in TOS, he rarely had interference from superiors and when he didn, he grumbled about it and occasionally disobeyed. There was a lot of humor in the show mixed with drama. And if Young Kirk is SLIGHTLY less gallant and dutiful than TOS Kirk...is that REALLY that inconsistent with being young? You can go on and on about how a kid just out of the academy would be more soldierly than a middle-aged guy, but keep in mind that Roddenberry always tried to distinguish Starfleet from a military organization. I don't think drawing on Harrison Ford will result in any detriment to a Young Kirk character.

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