{"id":7676,"date":"2009-11-03T16:55:44","date_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=7676"},"modified":"2009-11-03T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2009-11-04T00:56:27","slug":"finding-the-right-spock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/11\/finding-the-right-spock\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding The Right Spock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the right actor to play Spock turned out to be surprisingly easy.<\/p>\n<p>A short video on <strong>Zachary Quinto<\/strong>&#8216;s website explained the casting of Quinto as Spock, from Quinto&#8217;s viewpoint as well as from the viewpoint of others like <strong>J.J. Abrams, Alex Kurtzman, Bryan Burk<\/strong> and <strong>Leonard Nimoy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When he came in and read, he was just so perfect,&#8221; said Kurtzman. &#8220;He was undeniably perfect.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->&#8220;There were strangely moments when he actually looked like Leonard [Nimoy,] said Burk. &#8220;Like when his head was tilted at certain angles.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Well, they sent me some footage of him,&#8221; said Nimoy. &#8220;I immediately saw there was enough resemblance and a load of talent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px;\" src=\"http:\/\/counters.gigya.com\/wildfire\/IMP\/CXNID=2000002.0NXC\/bT*xJmx*PTEyNTcyOTQ3NTE*MDYmcHQ9MTI1NzI5NDc3MzM1OSZwPTEyMDc*MSZkPW9RQS1udXRCR3M*VWl1UmgmZz*yJm89MGU4OWJlZmEwYWE2NGEyYmJhYWFiYzEwYTU3YjUyZDgmb2Y9MA==.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" width=\"0\" height=\"0\" \/><object id=\"playerLoader\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\" \/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/farm.sproutbuilder.com\/load\/oQA-nutBGs4UiuRh.swf\" \/><param name=\"name\" value=\"playerLoader\" \/><param name=\"align\" value=\"middle\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed id=\"playerLoader\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"400\" height=\"321\" src=\"http:\/\/farm.sproutbuilder.com\/load\/oQA-nutBGs4UiuRh.swf\" align=\"middle\" name=\"playerLoader\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" quality=\"best\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting the right actor to play Spock turned out to be surprisingly easy. A short&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2401],"tags":[2407,2465,2409,2475],"class_list":["post-7676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xi","tag-abrams","tag-kurtzman","tag-nimoy","tag-quinto"],"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> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xi\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: XI<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: XI","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676","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=7676"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7680,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7676\/revisions\/7680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}