HIYA FOOLS!!!
So we went to the Opera House for the Star Trek Premiere and saw some amazing views and watched a film in it’s best possible format. it was amazing but the Biggeoff review will be up here soon enough. The next day we got to talk to Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto in the general Roundtable interview. They were cool and open and as you can tell everyone had some fun. For those not in the know on the initials CP – Chris Pine(Capt Kirk), ZQ-Zazhary Quinto(Spock), OF-Other fools , PJ-Prester John and BG-Biggeoff. So have a read and when this sucker comes out go see it.

ZQ-Hi Guys

Hi are you

OF-Welcome to Australia

It’s been great down here so far. It’s too bad we have to leave tonight.

OF-What preparation went into playing such iconic characters?

CP – Well I hadn’t been a fan originally and felt like I do some homework to steep myself in the series a little bit. I began to watch the original show in the first season and I found that for my process the more I found myself in that world , The more I watched Mr. Shatner play Capt Kirk the more that I was picking apart his performance and seeing ways that I could essentially impersonate him and that wasn’t my job. I job was to produce and original incarnation of this character. A time in this character’s journey that has not been brought to film and had not been seen yet. And that was JJ’s mandate in the beginning was that we were there to pay tribute to what has come before and there was certainly breadcrumbs along the way that it was really our job to bring a new perspective to it.

Thanks to SylarQuinto for the heads up! 😀

It’s been a while since Hollywood had a bona fide homegrown movie star: they tend to come from places like Missouri or Kentucky, not Studio City. But here’s Chris Pine, 28 years old, native to “the Valley,” and soon to be seen on-screen as the new Captain Kirk in director J. J. Abrams’s young-guns reboot of the original Star Trek.
Chris Pine

Pine didn’t slip effortlessly into William Shatner’s double-knits. “There have been, like, three auditions in my life where I feel like I’m in a Saturday Night Live skit. One was for Avatar”—James Cameron’s upcoming science-fiction epic—“which was probably the worst audition I ever gave. Another was for 10,000 bc, where I was just, like, on my haunches pretending to be in a loincloth in Burbank.” Pine laughs. “Then the other one was Star Trek. It was all this jargon talk of torpedoes and photons,” which, needless to say, didn’t quite trip off the tongue. Fortunately, he got a second chance seven months later and nailed it.

Pine, who graduated from U.C. Berkeley, comes from two generations of actors: his father, Robert Pine, has 200-odd television shows to his credit; his grandmother is B-movie actress Anne Gwynne, who was often seen in horror films. Chris Pine isn’t jaded, but neither is he naïve. “I know where I come from and what I want and why I got into [show business]. I know the reality of it. I just hope that I have longevity in my career.” – source

The May 2009 issue is out now featuring Gisele Bündchen on the cover. I’m going to try and get the magazine myself but, for anyone who get’s scans I’d love if you would donate them.

I’ve posted captures of the 18 minute video below as well as captures from yesterday’s video I posted of Chris on “E!’s Lyon’s Den”. Zach and Chris are so much fun in this interview, definitely one of my favorites so far.

Thanks to Luciana for the heads up! 😉

Chris Pine tells KALEEM AFTAB that his new take on James T. Kirk owes more – the sacrilege! – to old Star Wars than vintage Star Trek

This year, Chris Pine is being asked to boldly go where no man has gone before, or perhaps should ever even dare to go: the 28-year-old has been given the astronomical task of filling William Shatner’s space boots in Lost creator J.J. Abrams’ reworking of Star Trek.

Pine plays Captain James T. Kirk and as with most remakes, the world expects him to pale in comparison.

The role is the equivalent of a warp drive for the Los Angeles-born actor. His biggest parts to date have been playing Lindsay Lohan’s love interest in the 2006 romantic comedy Just My Luck and starring as Bill Pullman’s errant son in the film Bottle Shock, based on the true story of a blind wine-tasting between Californian and French wines in 1976 in which the American vintages had the audacity to win.

When I jest that he recognizes that European wine is actually better than American, Pine retorts: “If you want to fight we can.”

He is not a man you’d pick a fight with. Standing just over 6ft tall, he has lines stacked like building blocks on his abdomen. He’s every inch the action hero with more than a hint of his parents, veteran actors Robert Pine and Gwynne Gilford, about him.

Indeed, there are a couple of scenes in Bottle Shock where Pine’s character Jim can be seen in a boxing ring playfully sparring with his winemaking father, Bo. His James T. Kirk can also be seen picking a fight in a bar. And both films have a father-son theme – Pine plays the second Captain Kirk, the first was Captain George Kirk who apparently went down with his Starship.