{"id":45136,"date":"2017-01-09T11:54:16","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=45136"},"modified":"2017-01-09T11:54:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T19:54:16","slug":"jones-on-his-new-star-trek-discovery-character-saru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/01\/jones-on-his-new-star-trek-discovery-character-saru\/","title":{"rendered":"Jones On His New Star Trek: Discovery Character Saru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview for his upcoming film<em> The Bye Bye Man<\/em>, <strong>Doug Jones<\/strong>, who will play a new alien on <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>, spoke briefly about his character.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What I can tell you,&#8221; said Jones, &#8220;is what&#8217;s already been out there. Which is I am a new breed of alien that you&#8217;ve never seen on the series before, or in any of the movies&#8230;and I&#8217;m tickled pink about. That I get to, from the ground up, help develop and find this character, and his species, and what we&#8217;re all about from the get-go instead of taking folklore that&#8217;s already existed in the franchise.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This is a whole new thing that we get to discover together,&#8221; said Jones, &#8220;which I&#8217;m really excited about. And I will be the science officer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For those who were wondering, Saru is pronounced &#8220;suh-roo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/widgets.ign.com\/video\/embed\/content.html?url=http:\/\/www.ign.com\/videos\/2017\/01\/06\/star-trek-discovery-doug-jones-on-playing-a-brand-new-alien\" width=\"468\" height=\"263\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During an interview for his upcoming film The Bye Bye Man, Doug Jones, who will&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":45137,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,8677],"tags":[2507,9118],"class_list":["post-45136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-discovery","tag-jones","tag-saru"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/DougJonesSaru010917.jpg",580,225,false]},"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-discovery\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Discovery<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Discovery","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45136","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=45136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45138,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45136\/revisions\/45138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}