{"id":24164,"date":"2013-03-27T11:00:20","date_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=24164"},"modified":"2013-03-27T11:00:20","modified_gmt":"2013-03-27T18:00:20","slug":"peggs-scottishisms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2013\/03\/peggs-scottishisms\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegg&#8217;s Scottishisms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-24170\" title=\"PeggScotty031512\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/PeggScotty031512.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Simon Pegg<\/strong> was enthusiastic about making Scotty truly Scottish in the forthcoming <em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em>, but he went a bit overboard with the Scottish jargon.<\/p>\n<p>Pegg is also enjoying watching fans trying to figure out <strong>Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong>&#8216;s John Harrison character, complicating a character that is really &#8220;very simple&#8221; to figure out.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Scotty is &#8220;still very proud,&#8221; said Pegg. &#8220;&#8230;he thinks he owns the ship. He&#8217;s very principled, and those principles define his role in the film.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s also very Scottish, and was perhaps a bit too Scottish for Director <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong>. &#8220;J.J. lets me put Scottishisms into the script,&#8221; said Pegg. &#8220;But one day he came up to me on the set and said, &#8216;Simon, we have to understand what you are saying!&#8217; So I pulled it back a little bit.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Turning to the enigmatic character of John Harrison, Pegg believes that fans may be overthinking the character. &#8220;It&#8217;s been fun seeing people try to figure out who he is playing and all the time it just being a very simple answer,&#8221; he said. &#8220;John Harrison is indicative of a thing going on in society today, which is the enemy within. Not&#8230;a multi-horned alien or another country or whatever. It\u2019s the idea that the threat can be one of us and can come from inside.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>Star Trek into Darkness<\/em> arrives in theaters in May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simon Pegg was enthusiastic about making Scotty truly Scottish in the forthcoming Star Trek into&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689],"tags":[2572,2577],"class_list":["post-24164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","tag-pegg","tag-scotty"],"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-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Into Darkness","comment_count":"8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164","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=24164"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24173,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24164\/revisions\/24173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}