Anson Mount, star of the newest Star Trek serie, strange new worlds, recently shared his thoughts on Paul Wesley, the last actor to play James T. Kirk. Mount portrays Captain Christopher Pike in the prequel series, a character who first appeared in the pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, the sci-fi show that shocked the world in the late 1960s and launched a massive franchise. Pike commands the USS Enterprise, the massive Starfleet ship that will ultimately be commanded by Kirk, as seen in the original series and later movies.
Wesley was announced in March as the new face of a young Kirk. He will follow both Chris Pine and the venerable William Shatner in the role. However, Wesley’s Kirk will be closer to Shatner’s. Due to the different timelines created by JJ Abrams in his 2009 reboot movie, Star Trek. strange new worlds will exist in Prime Timeline and is a direct derivative of star Trek: Discovery, where Mount first played the role of Pike in season 2.
EO caught up with Mount to talk about the actor’s experience while working on his new show. When asked if Mount had ever had the opportunity to work with Wesley, she explained that he had and praised the actor. Read what Mount had to say below.
“Yes. Paul is amazing. We had lots of fun. We immediately welcomed him into the family. Good guy, and I thought he was well chosen ».
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Wesley is challenged to play a version of Kirk that has yet to be seen on television. Although Pine’s version of the character is the same age as Wesley’s Kirk, the reboot character existed in the Kelvin timeline in which Kirk grew up without his father due to the fact that the USS Kelvin, the ship on which sailed by his father, was destroyed. . Mount’s endorsement of Wesley as an actor, along with casting him in the role, gives audiences some assurance that the actor will play this younger version of Kirk true to form. Star Trek Canyon.
As the sixth new series in Alex Kurtzman’s rebranding. Star Trek franchise, which began with Discovery in 2017, strange new worlds aims to return the series to a familiar formula, as it mainly uses an episodic structure, although there is a story arc that continues throughout the season. The show is designed in a lighter tone, contrasting the tones of Discovery y picardo, which have been criticized for looking darker and deviating from the Star Trek structure that the public was used to in the previous series, such as the original series y the next generation. Although Wesley will not appear as Kirk until Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, Mount’s blessing indicates that his entry will be worth it.
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