{"id":52483,"date":"2020-04-03T13:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=52483"},"modified":"2020-04-03T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-03T20:14:43","slug":"mount-neither-lorca-nor-parker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2020\/04\/mount-neither-lorca-nor-parker\/","title":{"rendered":"Mount: Neither Lorca Nor Parker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking with Space.com<\/em>, Anson Mount<\/strong> revealed that he had a different captain in mind when auditioning for Star Trek: Discovery<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I was actually talking to them earlier in the year about the role of Captain Lorca and then they very wisely hired Jason Isaacs<\/strong>, who was great and did a much better job than I ever could have,” he said.<\/p>\n

Mount must have made a good impression though, because “when Pike was coming around,” Mount said; “they called up and said, ‘Hey, there’s this other role, a new captain, would you mind putting yourself on tape?’<\/p>\n

“And I said, ‘of course.’ And they sent me dummy scripts. So the character’s name on the dummy scripts was Captain Parker. And I thought, ‘Well that’s a terribly unimaginative name for a captain. All right, fine. I’ll do it.’ And I put myself on tape and then they called back the next day and they said, ‘Okay, doing it and it’s Captain Pike.’ And I just about fell out of my seat.”<\/p>\n

Mount was a fan of the original series due to his mother Nancy Smith<\/strong>, a former professional golfer. “She’s to blame actually,” he said. “When [Star Trek<\/em>] started syndication on local TV here, she’s the one who turned it on and told me I had to watch this. I asked her why and she told me it was about this group of people who fly around the galaxy and meet different aliens each week. And at first, I thought that’s a terrible idea for a TV show and then I very quickly got hooked and I’ve been a huge fan ever since.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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