William Shatner is a legitimately large actor. The problem is that he knows.
The Montreal native, in Quebec, who perfected his Thespian chops at the prestigious Stratford Shakespeare festival in Ontario quickly found himself making considerable progress in the cinema and television industries. He reserved important roles in the Titans in front of Richard Brooks “The Brothers Karamazov” like Yul Brenner, Claire Bloom and Lee J. Cobb, and joined a star cast for “Judgment in Nuremberg” by Stanley Kramer. A year later, he gave his best performance to date as a rigorous racist in “The intruder” by Roger Corman.
As he arrived at NBC’s “Star Trek” in 1966, he had reasons to believe that he was the alpha actor dog on the set. He lent the science fiction series, an air of respectability, and all the rest of the distribution had to do was to follow his example. This behavior often made unpopular shast with his colleagues. James Doohan, who played chief engineer Scotty, said it frankly when he said: “I wanted to knock him with more than one opportunity.”
Shatner has not learned to restrict his Brattness over the years. He was always his vain self when they managed to make the films. Most people were accustomed to the littleries of Southern at that time and brushed them, but his co-star of “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” and Love Interest Catherine Hicks was caught up in the game at the star’s camera. Realizing that she was in danger of being reduced in each scene, Hicks retaliated.
Shatner continued to steal the close -ups of Hicks
In a 2012 interview with Startrek.com, Hicks said: “I remember the pleasure, kindness, just joke, joy and struggle for some close -ups, the tug with Bill for the close -ups.” When Hicks realized that she was losing this battle, she gained her grievance to director Leonard Nimoy. PER HICKS:
“I would go to Leonard and said: ‘It’s My shot. I need a single. I’m not going to share the blow with Shatner. He wanted to enter every time, but you couldn’t get angry with him because he was like a diabolical brother. “”
Hicks was also disadvantaged because she was a total “Star Trek” neophyte. She did not know tradition or jargon. Nimoy had to explain to him what “meant me” meant “. You can Ding Hicks so as not to be prepared, but, in a way acting in a way, it was actually a good idea. She poured her personal confusion and her frustration directly into her character. And we were predisposed to love her character because she was a marine biologist who cared deeply about the well-being of her humpback whales (which Kirk and the company must bring to the future to save humanity).
There is a lot of room for the debate about the film “Star Trek” is the best (my vote is for “Star Trek VI: The Unded Country”), but “The Voyage Home” is by far the most entertaining. And the persistent confession of Hicks, exacerbated by this rascal Shatner, is a large part of the reason why it works so well.
