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By GustavoLeao / 06:24, 28 July 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
ClickOnDetroit posted an interview with Star Trek actor Bruce Greenwood (Captain Pike) and here are excerpts from the article.
"I think we all felt the pressure to varying degrees, and probably none more than Chris Pine and (Spock actor) Zachary Quinto," Greenwood said. "But J.J.[Abrams] also told to us, 'Look carefully at as much old footage as you'd like to absorb, and then from there, use that as a departure point.' So I looked at the original series in great detail and Jeffrey Hunter's portrayal, and realized pretty quickly realized that the dilemmas the two Pikes faced were quite different, so I feel lucky in that regard."
"I did virtually no green screen work (for special effects) in the film. For every scene I was in, the sets had been built," Greenwood explained. "So when I walked onto the Narada, it was a whole ship. It was crazy. You hardly had to imagine anything. It was massive and dripping with hydraulic fluid, and had fumes and smoke."
"When I walked on the bridge of the Enterprise for the first time, it was complete. It felt like a flawless ergonomic working environment," Greenwood recalled. "It was human in scale, sleek and futuristic."
"I didn't know enough about the show prior to the movie to claim that I was even a fan. I had seen the series a couple of dozen times when I was a kid, but hadn't paid enough attention to it. I was looking at it for the pretty girls," Greenwood said. "But when I went back and did my homework to prepare for the movie, I realized that a lot of the stories in the series -- particularly in the first year -- had these very classical themes."
The full interview is here.
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