{"id":41218,"date":"2015-07-29T10:54:46","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T17:54:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=41218"},"modified":"2015-07-29T20:24:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-30T03:24:20","slug":"pegg-teases-elba-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2015\/07\/pegg-teases-elba-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Pegg Teases Elba Character"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Simon Pegg<\/strong> spoke briefly about the character that Idris Elba<\/strong> will be playing in Star Trek Beyond<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The character that Elba will be playing will be unique, Pegg promised.<\/p>\n

“It\u2019s a really interesting, complex character,” said Pegg. “We shouldn\u2019t expect to see anything like Benedict Cumberbatch<\/strong>‘s creepy genius Khan from Star Trek Into Darkness<\/em> in Elba’s performance, however. His performance is all his own.”<\/p>\n

There’s a good reason that Elba’s villain is different than Cumberbatch’s. “Only because it would be a retread,” said Pegg. “What we don’t want to do is have the same kind of villain with the same motivation.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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