New Spock Zachary Quinto stars in this Funny or Die video called Hostage: A Love Story. It’s basically a one-joke premise with the one joke being that he swears a lot, but I have to admit, Quinto hasn’t made me laugh this much since Buspockke. The only thing this video could use is Gary Busey jumping down from the rafters shouting, “I’m your worst nightmare, butthorn!”
It appears new Spock Zachary Quinto is bad at something besides styling his hair. Word is he couldn’t do the Vulcan salute, so they had to glue his fingers together.
Quinto, 31, admitted he found it impossible to form his fingers into the distinctive V-shaped gesture, saying: “It’s much harder than it looks. Seriously.”
One on-set insider said: “Zach could do the salute some of the time but only after he’d positioned his fingers the right way off-camera.
“In some scenes he has to do the salute while speaking his lines so they ended up using skin-protective superglue, like they use in hospitals, to stick his fingers together.”
William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the long-running TV show and the first seven Star Trek films, was also unable to do the salute, so he used fishing line to tie his fingers together. [news.com.au]
Admit it, you’re doing the finger thing right now aren’t you. Yeah, I can do it too. God we’re cool. Look, I can roll my tongue too. Anyway, this is nothing to be ashamed of. Hollywood is full of stories like this. Like on the set of the first Matrix, how they put peanut butter on the roof of Keanu’s mouth to make his lips move. True story.
This is the latest clip from JJ Abrams’ Star Trek, aptly titled “Answer Me.” In this one we get to see plastic condom mannequin with eyebrows Zachary Quinto play Spock, as well as hints at the origin of Scotty (played by Simon Pegg). Apparently, Scotty just wandered in one night when it was raining and they decided screw it, you can be the ship’s engineer. It’s funny because isn’t that just like a Scotsman lol!
Fun fact: Chris Pine was drawn to acting in junior high after he quit basketball. His coach was always riding the Pine.
[via ropeofsilicon]
