Star Trek stars on what to expect

The stars of Star Trek (the upcoming theatrical film directed and produced, respectively, by Lost creators JJ Abrams and Damon Lindelof) spoke with The Wall Street Journal a few days ago about their approach to the Trek mythos, and how they expect fans to react to the changes made by Abrams & Co. An excerpt is found after the jump.

Chris Pine describes his take on Kirk:

It’s definitely not going to please everyone. There’s a scene where my character is in a bar and he’s definitely inebriated and under the influence of his own arrogance. It’s him becoming the Kirk everyone knows. In my book that makes the journey a little more interesting. If he’s a clear-cut leader from the beginning, you don’t have anywhere to go…

There’s a lot of humor, arrogance and decisiveness. I tried to bring in these qualities, but with this new element of a young man coming into his own — he’s a leader who doesn’t know he’s a leader yet. But the speech pattern? Absolutely not. In that territory it becomes an impersonation. I can only do my version of it.

Zachary Quinto on a young Spock:

The life of this character exists deeply within. For me it was about containment. But it was a matter of finding that baseline and exploring how far you can go away from that… As Leonard [Nimoy] portrayed the character he was much more grounded, but my experience with him is a bit different; he’s younger and hasn’t mastered the acceptance of these dualities in himself as much as he does later.

The entire interview is available here.

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