{"id":50270,"date":"2019-03-01T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T23:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=50270"},"modified":"2019-03-01T15:02:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T23:02:19","slug":"peck-building-the-spock-we-know","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/03\/peck-building-the-spock-we-know\/","title":{"rendered":"Peck: Building The Spock We Know"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ethan Peck<\/strong> has finally been seen in a Discovery<\/em> episode as Spock on last night’s Light and Shadows<\/em>, and he spoke about what makes Spock the character we know and love, and how this earlier version of Spock will get to that point. Note: Spoilers below.<\/p>\n

Peck described his take on the character. “Spock is, to me, is wisdom,” he said. “He’s deeply empathetic and highly logical, obviously, as we know, and I think that makes such a wonderful combination. He’s often there to offer a profound answer or observation because of his unique perspective, which is both half-human and half-Vulcan, or half-alien. And to have these two conflicting modes of operation within this one being is so compelling, and I think that’s why he’s been such a special character for so long.”<\/p>\n

According to Peck, Spock was “broken before the Red Angel. I shouldn’t say broken. I think he was unrealized before the Red Angel, and his experience with the Red Angel has really exposed him to himself. I think he’s compartmentalized his emotional half for most of his life, and we’ll really explore at what point he starts to compartmentalize his emotional side in this season.<\/p>\n

“But I think that this breaking is necessary for him to become the Spock that we have gotten to know from The Original Series that was so beautifully portrayed by Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>.”<\/p>\n

Playing the distressed Spock was tough for Peck. “It was really challenging,” he said, “because, as I said, there’s not an exact reference point for where Spock is in this second season of Discovery<\/em>, in the other material with Spock. Getting acclimated to how much he emotes, how much he internalizes, it was definitely a trial and error.<\/p>\n

“But I think I was surrounded by people that cared as deeply as I did about it, and really took care of me during that process, and helped guide me. He’s so disturbed at [the] beginning of his appearances on Discovery<\/em>.”<\/p>\n

So what about near future of Spock? “It’s not for a few episodes that I really got to play with that conflict of emotion and logic,” said Peck. “You’ll start to see it play out in the dialogue. Jonathan Frakes<\/strong> directed my third episode, and I think there we really started to get into balance and where that balance is truthful and authentic for Spock.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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