{"id":13551,"date":"2011-12-08T10:22:35","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13551"},"modified":"2011-12-08T10:22:35","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T18:22:35","slug":"morrison-a-peek-into-trek-secrecy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/12\/morrison-a-peek-into-trek-secrecy\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrison: A Peek Into Trek Secrecy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Trek<\/em> fans know how J.J. Abrams<\/strong> tried to maintain the secrecy of Star Trek XI<\/em>, but that even extended to the audition process for new actors hoping to appear in the movie.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Morrison<\/strong> was tapped to play Winona Kirk, mother of James T. Kirk, in Star Trek XI<\/em> and her audition reading contained nothing that actually appeared in the movie.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>“They gave me sides that had nothing to do with the movie, that just had a lot of emotions that I guess would be comparable to what the character was going to go through in the movie,” said Morrison. “I went in and read for (casting director) April Webster<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

“It was a crazy scene where I was supposed to be in some sort of water thing where the walls were closing in. It was me and my husband and we only had one air tank. I wanted him to take the air tank and he wanted me to take it. So I had to watch him drown while I took the air tank, and then I had to swim with him and get him to shore and then resuscitate him.<\/p>\n

“I mean, this is a lot when all you have is a room and a chair and a camera. It was one of those things where you just had to completely go for it or you\u2019re going to look like a crazy person.”<\/p>\n

Like most who work with Abrams, Morrison was filled with praise with him. “Working with J.J. Abrams is a dream,” she said. “He’s one of those just extraordinary human beings and crazy-crazy-crazy talented. It didn’t matter how many takes or how many angles we did, he\u2019d always come in with a new idea. I always come in crazy-prepared. I’m very anal. I do tons of research. I come in with all this stuff…and he put me to shame with the amount of ideas he came up with. We were on the fiftieth angle of however many-th take and he’d say, ‘What about this? What about this?’ As an actor, that’s just so great because every take feels new and fresh and inspired. It was just incredible.”<\/p>\n

Morrison is currently starring as Emma Snow in Once Upon a Time<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Star Trek fans know how J.J. Abrams tried to maintain the secrecy of Star Trek…<\/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":[3873,3874],"class_list":["post-13551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-morrison","tag-winona-kirk"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a> Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551","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=13551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13553,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13551\/revisions\/13553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}