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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: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 11:49:04 on Aug 18, 2008

Quote from steveleenow:
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.


Bingo. Shatner's insight is personal, not an opinion of his character or performance as young Kirk.

In an interview circulated by the media in June, Shat gave a positive assessment of what he made of Kirk in TOS: "I haven't seen myself playing Captain Kirk in a long, long time," Shatner said. "And I watched it now, from my perspective of 40 years later, and I thought, 'You know, that's rather good.'"


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