Chris Pine ended up getting the lead function within the J.J. Abrams Star Trek trilogy. That does not imply there weren’t different robust rivals. Timothy Olyphant not too long ago appeared on the Happy Sad Confused podcast to speak concerning the auditioning course of, and revealed how he nearly landed the function of Captain Kirk — and why he thinks he could have misplaced the function to Pine.
“Here’s what I can tell you about Star Trek: I went in and auditioned not for Captain Kirk, but I remember reading with J.J. Abrams and he’s just a lovely, lovely guy. And just a lovely audition process. Somewhere in there, I was auditioning for Doc, he’s like, ‘I already got a guy for Doc, so I don’t need you for that, but I don’t have a Kirk.’”
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“I believe it was one of those things where it’s like he might have been prepared to hire me, but they wanted somebody younger, and he was having a hard time finding somebody younger, And somewhere along the line, J.J. called and said, ‘I found a guy, younger, who’s really good.’”
Olyphant says regardless of the competitors, he harbors no sick will in direction of Pine, who he calls “a good dude.” (“What a good guy. And I really like his work. He’s one of those guys who makes it look simple and easy,” Olyphant added.” Plus all of it labored out; Olyphant received to develop into a significant participant on Star Wars as an alternative of Star Trek, because of his guest-starring roles on The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett.
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