{"id":12277,"date":"2011-06-13T12:12:09","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=12277"},"modified":"2011-06-15T03:44:07","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T10:44:07","slug":"greenwood-in-super-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/06\/greenwood-in-super-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenwood In Super 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Bruce Greenwood<\/strong>, <em>Star Trek XI<\/em>&#8216;s Captain Christopher Pike, can be seen in another Abrams-directed film, <em>Super 8<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But Greenwood, who is credited as &#8220;Cooper,&#8221; won&#8217;t be easy to spot. This is because the visual appearance of his character, the unhappy alien of <em>Super 8<\/em>, was computer-generated.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Greenwood150h.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-12278\" title=\"Greenwood150h\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/Greenwood150h-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Performance capture work was a new experience for Greenwood. &#8220;It&#8217;s not your typical acting exercise at all, because you&#8217;re really the only person in this room with all these cameras in it,&#8221; explained Greenwood. &#8220;It was a very weird thing to offer up all this big emotion while &#8230; the rest of the people in the room are picking away at the craft services table,&#8221; he says. &#8220;And you never really how it will turn out because it&#8217;s all left in the hands of the artists and animators who are putting your work together.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The other part that was really memorable was that I saw a bunch of other (big name) actors who were doing the same thing in other studios &#8230; and there we were: In one-piece Danskins with our pot bellies and saggy asses hanging outs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the parts that we try so hard to hide beneath our nice clothes were all of a sudden very visible.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being an actor, you have to be OK with shameless &#8230; and that was it. There was nothing left to hide. It was a big naked moment &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood can also be seen in the horror chiller <em>Cell 213<\/em>, which opens this Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Greenwood, Star Trek XI&#8216;s Captain Christopher Pike, can be seen in another Abrams-directed film,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[3682,3681,2422,2567,3202],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-alien","tag-cooper","tag-greenwood","tag-pike","tag-super-8"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12315,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions\/12315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}