Simon Pegg Looks Back On Filming Star Trek!

Simon Pegg Looks Back On Filming Star Trek!

The actor who played Scotty in JJ Abrams' Star Trek reboot recalls talking with Leonard Nimoy, as well as being a part of the Trek world...

By PaulRom - Jun 18, 2011 12:06 PM EST
Filed Under: Star Trek
Source: LA Times



Speaking to LA Times, Simon Pegg - who portrayed Scotty in 2009's Star Trek and will reprise the role in the untitled sequel next year - looks back at joining the Star Trek universe, especially when recalling he talked to Leonard Nimoy/the original Spock on set.


Fans who are eagerly anticipating reading about [Pegg's] experiences working on, say, Star Trek, may be surprised that there are few on-set anecdotes. He steps onto the Enterprise and then — that’s it! What was it like?

“It was an extraordinary thing to be part of that world,” he admits. “I do talk about how weird it was to speak Leonard Nimoy when he was in character. That was super-strange, because he wasn’t just Leonard Nimoy, he was Spock, and to have Spock talking to you is utterly, utterly odd. I’ve known him since I was 9 — and he’s not even real!” He stops and laughs. “That’s hard to put into words, that.”


Starring Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg and Anton Yelchin, J.J. Abrams' Star Trek 2 is set to be released in theaters sometime in 2012!
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PaulRom
PaulRom - 6/18/2011, 12:11 PM
@Ozymandias < blockquote > < / blockquote > without the space.
patriautism
patriautism - 6/18/2011, 12:41 PM
What's funny is, on Spaced his character once said, "every odd numbered star Trek movie is crap".. Irony haha.
sndlsktty
sndlsktty - 6/18/2011, 2:40 PM
Dear Paraborg, stop calling it Star Trek 2! That's "Wrath of Khan", it's been out for 29 years.
LP4
LP4 - 6/18/2011, 9:22 PM
@grif- Usually i skip your videos but the song in this one was actually nice.
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