He is someone who I think is selfless for his crew. And then on top of that, he has incredibly good sense of morality. It’s something that I really wanted to make sure that I captured. But his instinct, his gut, is his North Star. So what essence of Kirk as a character, separate from what Shatner was doing in his performance, did you want to capture?Ī director I was working with on “Star Trek,” said, “Kirk’s the kind of guy that will jump off out of a plane without a parachute and he knows he’ll figure out a way to land midair.” Obviously, that’s an extreme example. It would be almost blasphemous, in a way. Kirk, but do not try in any way shape or form to imitate something that you cannot touch. I really aim to be honest and truthful and in the moment. We’re really respecting who he is and his character traits. So I think what they really wanted was for me to make sure that of course we pay respect to the character.
That’s something that comes organic to the actor himself. It’s what made that character so iconic, and it’s just not something you can easily replicate. He has this incredible sense of leadership, but it’s done with this little twinkle in his eye that no one can quite describe. And that in a way it’s almost like an insult of character, right? I think William Shatner, when you watch the original series, he’s so incredibly charming. If I did that, it would just be a reminder that I’m not William Shatner. I think one of the most important things that I said - well, they may have said it first and I entirely agreed - was that I think the biggest insult would be to do an imitation of what William Shatner originated and what people fell in love with. In your first meeting with the “Strange New Worlds” producers about playing Kirk, was there a sense yet of what kind of performance they were looking for, how they were going to recreate this character who had been played by the original actor in a very specific way? It offers this incredible sense of hope that I think people really need. I always like to think of if I were watching that live in that era, and I think, “Holy crap, that was the first show that really gave people this sense of a bigger world out there.” And so when I watched the original series, even when I was younger, I still got that sense of awe, that sense of, Wow, how cool would it have been to see this live on television? It really was is this incredible form of escapism for many, many people. With that said, I’ve always had an appreciation for films from the ’60s, ’70s.
CAPTAIN KIRK STRANGE NEW WORLDS SERIES
I was born in the ’80s, so it’s not like I grew up watching the original series live. Kirk, who now is leading another Federation starship, having never joined the Enterprise - or met Spock (Ethan Peck).įrom your tweets about meeting William Shatner on that flight, I gather you’re a “Star Trek” fan. Suddenly, Pike jumps seven years into the future, and lives through what would happen if he survived and remained captain of the Enterprise.
The episode leaps into an alternate timeline after Pike, who’s known that in the future he is horrifically injured and disfigured, attempts to avoid his fate. Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) - on Season 2 of “Strange New Worlds.” But in a twist only “Star Trek” could concoct, Wesley is making his debut as Capt. Wesley was hired to play Kirk as a younger man - years before he becomes a Starfleet captain and inherits command of the U.S.S. “I’m not one who usually believes in fate but this was more than a coincidence,” Wesley tweeted. And then when we talked to him, he really seemed to understand what the role entailed and what he could bring to it.”Īfter news broke in March that he’d been cast in the role, Wesley tweeted about meeting Shatner on a flight to Los Angeles following Shatner’s voyage into low Earth orbit on Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin space shuttle. “Honestly, we tried a lot of people and he was the guy that we all agreed on who we felt could do it. “We were looking for someone who had a combination of gravitas and fun and was sort of familiar and yet different,” Myers says. According to Myers, Wesley was cast after the production had already held “a bunch of auditions” to find the right actor to play Kirk.
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