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William Shatner on Watching Himself as Captain Kirk in The Original Series

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By GustavoLeao / 09:15, 17 August 2008 / People

The Times posted a new interview with Star Trek star William Shatner and here are few excerpts.

"I never had any expectation," he says bluntly about his career. "I attribute a great deal of it all to luck. I think the pursuit of success is environmental - I had wonderful parents who encouraged and supported me and taught me the value of money and hard work."

When he watches himself as a young Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek The Original Series episodes, he says the man on screen is unrecognisable to him.


"He's a complete stranger," he says. "Not only is he physically foreign, emotionally I don't know where I was at that time. There's also a certain amount of revulsion involved - how could I have looked that young? What happened? I should have taken more vitamins. It's totally science-fictional."


The full interview is here.



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By: Scottrek (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:14:44 on Aug 17, 2008

It may be the case that many actors are "completely detached" from their performances, but I'm not really sure that's the case with William Shatner. A guy who's (ghost)written many books about Kirk after the end of his run on the series, expressed disappointment at not being in the new film, and now constantly thanks his lucky stars that something he did "on a lark" has turned out so well for him is anything but disconnected. The guy loves Kirk, pure and simple. His issue, in this interview as before, seems to be more with the fact that he's getting older--he contrasts his younger self with his older self and balks at the difference. I doubt he had any issues watching himself when he was young and fit. Not that I'm saying anything against the guy now--I hope I'm as aware/insightful at 77! I'm just saying, he'd have the same reaction to his younger visage in the "there's something on the wing" Twilight Zone episode! Just my two cents.

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RE: No surprise here. by steveleenow @ 10:18:39 on Aug 18
RE: No surprise here. by cdydatzigs @ 18:55:05 on Aug 17
    RE: No surprise here. by TRexx @ 04:17:03 on Aug 18
       RE: No surprise here. by cdydatzigs @ 07:37:23 on Aug 18
          RE: No surprise here. by TRexx @ 11:06:27 on Aug 18
       My opinion on the Shatner enigma by GustavoLeao @ 04:40:03 on Aug 18

RE: No surprise here. | Report this post to moderator
By: steveleenow (Odo's file, contact, web site) @ 10:17:54 on Aug 18, 2008

I think you have it wrong. He's not talking about looking at the character he played back in the 1960s from the point of view of today as a 77 year old man.

That does not mean he is removed from the TOS Kirk of the feature films - if they had found a way to have him in the new film.

Like Ford's Indy aged, so too did Kirk.

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RE: No surprise here. by TRexx @ 11:49:04 on Aug 18
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