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Simon Pegg: Odd Trek movies suck, except for this one |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
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 Obviously, he’s not going to say that the movie he's in sucks, but it is worth noting that one of Simon Pegg’s previous characters, Tim Bisley of Spaced, said “there are some things in life that are just fact. And one of those facts is that every odd-numbered Star Trek movie is s**t.” Speaking with Wired.com, Pegg was put on the spot about the line, to which he responded that there are exceptions to every rule, and that he has “been made to participate in his own wrong proving.”
 JJ Abrams has this habit of putting me in the position of making me eat my own words. When I was doing press for Shaun of the Dead, a journalist asked me if I was going to go off to Hollywood now. I said: “I'm not gonna just run off and do some film like Mission: Impossible: III.” I just made up a film. Four months later, JJ calls me and asks me if I wanted to be in Mission: Impossible: III and I was like: “Yes!” Oh what a fool.
This odd-numbered film is going to be amazing. |
Pegg, who hails from Gloucester, England, addressed the stereotype that was, and is, Scotty:
In some respects he’s a racial stereotype. But, I know plenty of Scottish people who like a bit of a drink and have the surname Scott.
It’s very important to be sensitive and not make generalizations about groups of people, but you can be oversensitive. Scotty’s a very affectionate stereotype. He’s a popular character in Scotland. He’s not a negative stereotype - he’s a fun stereotype. The differences between ourselves can be very funny. But Scotts are the first people to laugh at the fact that they drink and fight a bit. |
And of course, Wired asked what it was like to step into the shoes of James Doohan and the iconic Scotty character, and how Chris Pine took on the role of young Kirk.
| Going into it I thought the same stuff. How are all these other actors going to take on characters where the actor is as famous as the character? Shatner and Nimoy, they inhabited those roles with such conviction and such skill. All you can do is play the part in the spirit of those actors -- not take it lightly or parody it. Watching Chris Pine, and all the actors, I had skin-tingly moments. I saw them doing their stuff and thought: They've got this so f***ing right. Chris had that swagger, and confidence, and big-balls-ness, and I think he nailed it. |
[via: Wired.com]
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