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Chris recently spoke with Access Hollywood while attending CinemaCon, see what he had to say below…

“I do know about ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ because Alice Eve, who’s in our film, [the ‘Star Trek’ sequel], has been reading it like crazy, so yeah, I’ve heard about it,” he told Access Hollywood at CinemaCon 2012 in Las Vegas on Monday.

When asked if he’d play the novel’s Christian Grey, the square-jawed hunk didn’t say no.

“It’d be a hell of a choice for me, I think,” he smiled. “It sounds like an interesting film.”

Chris is currently reprising his role as James T. Kirk in the J.J. Abrams helmed “Star Trek” sequel, and he said the film is going to impress.

“Of course I’m gonna tell you I think it’s gonna be better,” he laughed. “You pick up the characters from where they left off, and the development of the characters — I think — is just as exciting as the first one.

“And it’s relentless,” he added. “I think that’s the best adjective I can use.”

Chris said the team is actually close to wrapping up the second installment in the sci-fi reboot.

“We’re almost done,” he told Access. “It’s wrapping up very soon. It’s just as action-packed as the first one.”

You can check out the interview in full over at AccessHollywood.com

Lending his voice to Jack Frost in the upcoming animated film “Rise of the Guardians” has given Chris Pine a new appreciation of the secrecy surrounding J.J. Abrams’ “Star Trek.”

“Rise of the Guardians,” is a 3-D DreamWorks Animation movie featuring folklore characters like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny; it’s set for release near Thanksgiving. It might not seem to have much in common with “Star Trek,” but Pine, 31, says working on “Guardians” has given him a better understanding of why “Star Trek” director Abrams is so adamant about keeping the plot of his films a mystery.

“J.J. is super-secretive. The scripts are color-coded, and walking to and from set we have to wear coats and everything,” the actor said at the CinemaCon convention of theater owners in Las Vegas, where he was on hand to promote “Guardians.” “It’s such a pain in the [butt], but I think about how awesome it is, because what he’s protecting is the magic of the unknown.”

With the advent of the Internet, Pine says it’s harder to preserve a sense of wonder among audiences, including children. Can the fantastical “Guardians” work for kids who are jaded at an early age?

“I think probably there’s a certain amount of earlier cynicism because of technology and stuff — they can look Santa Claus up online, and they’ll find a blog post from some hater about he doesn’t exist,” he said. “I do think there’s something genetically programmed in the brain of a child that wants to believe.”

DreamWorks Animation screened roughly 15 minutes of the new movie to theater owners at the Caesars Palace Coliseum on Monday night, and director Peter Ramsey showed illustrations of each of character and described them in elaborate detail. Pine gave an earnest speech about how his imagination ran wild as a kid. It seems the actor took his work on “Guardians” quite seriously. While Chris Rock told 24 Frames he finds doing voice work on the “Madagascar” films an easy gig, Pine said he agonizes over his delivery of every line.

“I do the voice for BMW too, and I’m always thinking, how do you paint a picture with words when the subtle nuances of just you and I sitting here together you can’t display?” he said. “I’ll go in sometimes and think I did a great job and hear it back and think, ‘Well, that’s not what I was trying to do.’ It’s the worst art form for an OCD perfectionist like me.”

Source: LATimes.com

I’ve added 92 photos of Chris at Day 1 of CinemaCon 2012 in Las Vegas, Nevada which took place yesterday.

Gallery Link:
– 2012 > 04/23/2012 – CinemaCon 2012 – Day 1

MTV News: What was it that attracted you to the script originally?

Chris Pine: What attracted me to the film was just the quality of the writing. I was really interested in doing a film that was smaller scope than the films that I had done previously in the past couple years. This one was an intimate family drama, and I thought even the anomalous experience of someone finding out that their father had a completely separate family, everybody’s got family dramas of their own. Certainly, though I can’t relate to that specific experience, I can relate to having stuff in the family. This one takes place in the moment where all the stuff that’s been brewing for years and years and years finally comes to a head and has to be dealt with.

MTV: How does making the film’s central relationship a brother-sister one affect the overall movie?

Pine: Clearly it’s going to progress in a way that can’t be a love story between a sister and brother. It is in a sense that these two people get to know one another and find that they love one another because they’re the only two people that can relate and understand the experience of living in that family with that father and that mother. And because they’ve been so traumatized by the lies that their family has told for so many years, they find solace in one another’s mutual understanding. I think it’s refreshing because I don’t think people have seen something like this specific story in cinema before, at least in the States. There’s a quality of the film that kind of reminded me of one of my favorite films, “Kramer vs. Kramer,” and it kind of has the depth of something like “Ordinary People” and the humor of a comedy. It’s just — for the lack of a better term — very human.

I was recently contacted by the young but very talented Gabe Eggerling, whom is a voice actor. He had the chance to meet with Chris at the April 15th 3rd Annual Milk And Bookies Story Time Celebration event. He had nothing but great things to say about Chris, and wanted me to share his photo with all of you.

I’m an 8 yr old voice over actor (official voice of Schroeder/Peanuts) and had the coolest time hangin’ with Chris yesterday at the Milk and Bookies event talking about how to get the kids attention when reading storybooks.

You can find out a little more about Gabriel under the cut. 🙂