{"id":5655,"date":"2009-05-25T22:29:54","date_gmt":"2009-05-25T21:29:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/05\/shatner-on-acting-challenges-and-raw-nerve\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:11:42","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:11:42","slug":"shatner-on-acting-challenges-and-raw-nerve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/05\/shatner-on-acting-challenges-and-raw-nerve\/","title":{"rendered":"Shatner On Acting Challenges And Raw Nerve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <strong>William Shatne<\/strong>r, making a science fiction movie or show can mean going back to being a child, when one must use imagination to get the scene done.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=t6qYzF5PmZU&#038;feature=channel\">The Shatner Project<\/a>, &#8220;Science fiction film acting is very challenging,&#8221; explained Shatner. &#8220;Frequently, they&#8217;ll put a flag, a stand up someplace with an &#8220;x&#8221; made of tape and&#8230;what is that over there? What is that coming towards us?&#8230;It&#8217;s an exercise in imagination. And you&#8217;re right back to a three-year-old, who is playing with blocks and playing with blocks and doing and you&#8217;re right, you&#8217;re playing the child inside you.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><object width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t6qYzF5PmZU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/t6qYzF5PmZU&#038;hl=en&#038;fs=1\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Shatner also spoke with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\">The Sydney Morning Herald<\/a>, about <em>Raw Nerve<\/em>. When asked if he would like to have <em>Star Trek XI<\/em> Director <strong>J.J. Abrams<\/strong> on, Shatner said, &#8220;I would love to. That&#8230;is a great suggestion. Everybody that we think of has to be okayed by the network and so I am going to take that name right now when we close up the phone and suggest it, because I think he&#8217;d (Abrams) jump at it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What would Shatner like to discuss with Abrams? &#8220;He is a bit of an intellectual,&#8221; said Shatner. &#8220;A bit of a geek. He&#8217;s not a physically strong guy, but yet his strength in making movies is action films. Where does this sense of action and force come from a guy whose basic nature is not that?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the article located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/news\/entertainment\/tv--radio\/shatner-talks-up-new-show\/2009\/05\/25\/1243103469923.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to William Shatner, making a science fiction movie or show can mean going back&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2414],"class_list":["post-5655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-shatner"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"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>","tag_info":"Cast &amp; Crew","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655","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=5655"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6887,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5655\/revisions\/6887"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}