This week has Star Trek celebrity news with Mulgrew winning an award, Quinto hanging with ‘Girls,’ Sir Pat hanging with Yoda, Saldana going green, Takei as Grand marshal and Pegg seeking happiness. Get all the latest below.
Sir Pat Talks Twitter and Meets Yoda
TNG’s Sir Patrick Stewart was in France last weekend at the Cannes Lions Creativity Festival. He spoke on a panel to discuss social media, you can watch a clip of that below.
And today Stewart shared a fun picture of himself with one of those guys who dress up as famous characters, in this case Star Wars’s Yoda.
SHORT I AM. STOLE MY HAT HE DID. pic.twitter.com/lHhhioPlRl
— Patrick Stewart (@SirPatStew) June 21, 2014
Watch Pegg Search For Happiness In New Trailer
The new Scotty Simon Pegg’s next film takes him on a journy around the world as the titular character in Hector and the Search for Happiness. Along the way he encounters Rosamund Pike, Christopher Plummer (aka General Chang), Toni Collette, Stellan Skarsgård, and Jean Reno. The film will be released in September.
Quinto Guesting On Girls – But What About Heroes Reborn?
Star Trek’s new Spock Zachary Quinto was spotted shooting an episode of the hit HBO comedy Girls. HBO has confirmed he will appear in at least one episode. Still no word yet on if Quinto will also be seen on TV in the role that made him a star – the evil Sylar on Heroes. This week the first casting was announced for NBC’s upcoming mini-series Heroes Reborn (Jack Coleman is returning as HRG). While many fans are hoping to see Quinto as Sylar again, Deadline says he has been approached but isn’t available (he does have a busy schedule including a big role the new Hitman film, Agent 47).
Quinto on the set in NYC with ‘Girls’ star/creator Lena Dunham
New Poster & Trailer w/ Saldana as Gamora
Zoe Saldana is playing a green alien in a big sci-fi movie, but not an Orion in the next Star Trek. This week Marvel released a new international trailer posters for Guardians of the Galaxy, featuring Saldana as the alien Gamora.
The film opens August 1st. Here is the new character poster featuring Zoe.
Saldana goes green
This last week was also Zoe’s birthday, so Latina magazine celebrated with 10 things you never knew about the actress.
Mulgrew Wins Award – Contrasts roles in ‘Voyager’ and ‘Orange Is The New Black’
On Thursday Star Trek: Voyager’s Kate Mulgrew won the Critics Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her role on the Netflix women in prison series Orange is the New Black. It was actually a tie. Here is the awards ceremony announcement, however Kate wasn’t at the event (Janey was).
The second season of Orange is the New Black premiered earlier this month on Netflix. Mulgrew spoke to Gold Derby at the premiere event, where she contrasted her roles on Voyager and Orange is the New Black.
Takei On How He Got Better + TED Talk + ‘To Be Takei’ coming to DirecTV + Columbus Grand Marshal
On Friday TOS star George Takei was in Columbus Ohio, where he was the grand marshal for the LGBT Pride parade. See video via Columbus Dispatch below.
Earlier this week Takei was the latest celebrity in the "It Got Better" series, talking about his life experiences. Watch that below.
Speaking of inspirational Takei, earlier this month Takei was invited to TED Kyoto where he spoke on the power of pride. He began his talk speaking about Star Trek and it’s mission.
And if you want even more Takei, he is the subject of a new documentary titled "To Be Takei." The doc will get a limited release starting in August, but it was just announced that if you have DirecTV you will be able to see it starting July 3. Oh and earlier today George was in
That’s all the celebrity bits for now.
That is one eclectic mix of Trek news!
George Takei’s life storys (and the other stars as well ) are so very interesting.
“Mulgew” in the title,
“Muldrow” in the title of the her section,
“Mulgrew” finally :)
I see Yoda grew quite a few feet, LOL!
Damn! …now that’s a “green girl” that looks HOT! =) (and tough) ;-)
The man who trained more than 66 countries in open source methods calls for re-invention of intelligence to re-engineer Earth
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2014/jun/19/open-source-revolution-conquer-one-percent-cia-spy
While I loved Mr. Quinto as Sylar on Heroes, and the fangirl in me wishes that he would return, I think he’s done that role, and he’d be happier and more creatively engaged doing something else. I hope he can find a truly interesting role, one that really uses his talents and his astonishing range.
One of the great things about Sylar — especially in Season 4 — was that the role enabled Mr. Quinto to play so many different roles within one role: evil Sylar in Matt’s head; innocent, amnesiac Sylar at the police station; repentant Sylar in the nightmare; and hero Sylar in the last episode. I hope Mr. Quinto will be able to find a role that will allow him such a range in the future.
I really didn’t think Zoe Saldana could look any dumber or uglier.
I know the guy who is producing the Takei documentary! So proud of my fellow Trekker to finally release his dream project :)
Patrick Stewart is hilarious.
8 UGH, yeah, Stop It. Save it for the Zoe-hater boards.