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Idris Elba<\/strong>, who will be playing the main villain in Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, had a few words to say about the franchise.<\/p>\n The actor also has a favorite Star Trek<\/em> character.<\/p>\n Filming has begun on Star Trek Beyond<\/em>, and Elba is working with his favorite Trek character.<\/p>\n “Almost everyone was a Trekkie, really, weren’t they? I wouldn’t say I was a hardcore one but I definitely watched that show a million times,” he said.<\/p>\n Who was his favorite on Star Trek<\/em>? “Spock was probably my favorite character,” he said, “and in [Star Trek Beyond<\/em>] I have some scenes with Zachary Quinto<\/strong>.<\/p>\n Elba loves being an actor. “…There are loads of roles I’d love to play, as an actor I’m still growing,” he said. “As long as I have an audience that enjoys watching me, I’ll keep on doing it. I’m never going to stop acting, I love it too much. I just want to keep the variety there.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Idris Elba, who will be playing the main villain in Star Trek Beyond, had a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2818],"tags":[8391],"class_list":["post-41042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-beyond","tag-elba"],"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":"Star Trek Beyond<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek Beyond","comment_count":"22","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41042","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=41042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41044,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41042\/revisions\/41044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}