{"id":9738,"date":"2010-07-23T12:21:28","date_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9738"},"modified":"2010-07-23T12:21:28","modified_gmt":"2010-07-23T19:21:28","slug":"profane-dad-cool-with-shatner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/07\/profane-dad-cool-with-shatner\/","title":{"rendered":"Profane Dad Cool With Shatner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <strong>William Shatner<\/strong> was <strong>Justin Halpern<\/strong>&#8216;s first choice to play his sharp-tongued and profane father on <em>$#*! My Dad Says<\/em>, father <strong>Sam Halpern<\/strong> had another actor in mind.<\/p>\n<p><em>$#*! My Dad Says <\/em>will air September 23, and had Halpern senior had his way, he would have been played by someone associated with another famous sci-fi franchise.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ShatnerSMDS051810.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9739\" title=\"ShatnerSMDS051810\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/ShatnerSMDS051810.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"194\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a>Halpern wanted to have his character played by <strong>James Earl Jones,<\/strong> best-known to fans as the voice of Darth Vader in the original <em>Star Wars<\/em> movies. Jones&#8217; &#8220;voice is the greatest in the world,&#8221; said Halpern.<\/p>\n<p>But according to son Justin, his father had a voice more like &#8220;Foghorn Leghorn.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Justin was pleased with Shatner&#8217;s portrayal of his father, as seen during the taping of the pilot. Shatner hit the role &#8220;out of the park,&#8221; said Halpern. &#8220;He&#8217;s such a unique kind of actor, you never know what you&#8217;re going to get with him. He brought a really interesting take on it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His father was OK with Shatner after seeing the taping. &#8220;He was way into it,&#8221; said Sam Halpern.<\/p>\n<p>Justin did have another actor in mind for the role, had Shatner turned it down. &#8220;My second choice was <em>Deadwood<\/em> star <strong>Ian McShane<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But he might have scared the crap out of middle-America though.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although William Shatner was Justin Halpern&#8216;s first choice to play his sharp-tongued and profane father&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2421],"tags":[3225,3226,2414],"class_list":["post-9738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tos","tag-my-dad-says","tag-halpern","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> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738","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=9738"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9741,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9738\/revisions\/9741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}