E! News reported that the 79-year-old actor said that he would have preferred another character should have been created in order to represent an openly gay personality in the “Star Trek” movie 2016. More recently, his popularity has grown even further, thanks to his active online presence and outspokenness about social issues.
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“Star Trek Beyond” actor-screenwriter Simon Pegg defended the choice in a statement and said the filmmakers wanted an LGBT character to be “someone we already knew because the audience has a pre-existing opinion of that character as a human being, unaffected by any prejudice”.
Then Pegg revealed that Jaylah was named after a famous Oscar winning actress. He talked about how “Star Trek” can inspire young people to discover new frontiers in technology and space exploration, and chatted about the Juno probe’s recent arrival in the Jupiter system.
Idris Elba also joins the cast as the big bad Krall (who is mentioned in the clip) and the rest of the folks are back in the uniform for director Justin Lin, who took a break from the Fast and Furious franchise for this flick. The only thing he wishes is that the writers hadn’t tampered with Gene Roddenberry’s original character.
Takei said that he was “flattered” that the Sulu decision was an homage to his own LGBT activism, and asserted his remarks were just “about being true to Gene’s vision and storytelling”.
We’ll have more on Star Trek Beyond next week, including our interview with John Cho (Sulu). “We want to understand why he has such a beef with the Federation”, he said. SGCome on, I want to know what the reviews said…
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Alex is set to get the red carpet treatment as guest of honor at Wrexham’s first screening of the movie Star Trek Beyond in the Eagles Meadow shopping centre on July 22, where he will recite the poem in Klingon before giving the English translation.
