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William Shatner Remembers His Days as Captain Kirk in The Original Series

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By GustavoLeao / 16:45, 6 June 2008 / General Star Trek

Denver Post posted a new interview with Star Trek star William Shatner, in which he revealed that he recently watched the second season TOS episode "A Piece of the Action". Here are few excerpts.

"I haven't seen myself playing Capt. Kirk in a long, long time," he says. "And I watched it now, from my perspective of 40 years later, and I thought, 'You know, that's rather good.' It's a starship captain trying to do the accent, the Noo Yawk accent, trying to play tough, trying to be one of the guys. It's not quite right, but it's what a starship captain would have done - a decent imitation, enough to fool those guys but not the audience."

"The actors were wonderful. And I didn't care about the sets or anything like that or the cheesy spaceship," Shatner says. "I think that's what happens in 'Star Trek.' Your eye goes past all the faults because you're concentrated on the actors and the plot."

More from Shatner on the character of Kirk can be found here.



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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... | Report this post to moderator
By: msspurlock (Odo's file, contact) @ 14:10:12 on Jun 07, 2008

Nah, I've got to disagree on those two. Go to imdb and you'll see. Besides, Shatner's been around longer. And face it. Deniro's played one character type in most of his films, almost all set in the modern day or the 20th Century. Shatner's played parts ranging from the age of Alexander to the future, with Shakespeare, Tolstoy and the Twilight Zone on the way. No comparison. Norton hasn't even been around long enough to be a player.

It's normal to think that the crop of actors you see today are actually trained and good at their roles, but in fact, the Hollywood clockpunchers of today are pretty pale by comparison.

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RE: Shatner Nails it, as Usual.... by Terry212 @ 01:30:45 on Jun 08
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