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George Takei is the voice of a new villain, Lok Durd, on Star Wars: Clone Wars . Interestingly enough this makes Takei the first actor, and still so far the only, to work for both Star Trek and Star Wars.
"Star Trek is science fiction," said Takei. "Star Wars is science fantasy. Based on the episodes I worked on, I think with Star Wars: Clone Wars we're starting to see a merging though. It does deal, philosophically, with some of the issues of the time, which is always something Star Trek was known for. War, Peace, Technology, Humanity, Sacrifice and Courage; these issues. I found that engaging."
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"Star Trek is science fiction," said Takei. "Star Wars is science fantasy. Based on the episodes I worked on, I think with Star Wars: Clone Wars we're starting to see a merging though. It does deal, philosophically, with some of the issues of the time, which is always something Star Trek was known for. War, Peace, Technology, Humanity, Sacrifice and Courage; these issues. I found that engaging."
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Personally never took to Star Trek. Everyone was just too damned nice. It was like The Waltons in Space.
One thing the actors complained about during the PT was Lucas would have actors in front of blue screen, one at a time, reading lines to other actors not there. Terrence Stamp complained when he asked where Natalie Portman was one day, someone pointed at a sheet of A4 paper stuck on a post: "See that sheet of paper? That's Natalie."
Seems though they grew a brain regarding this:
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"The other thing I found is in doing the Star Wars animation, especially when compared to the Star Trek animation, it was really working as an actor. I was actually working with other actors. When we did the recording (for Clone Wars—ED) the had the entire cast there. So we were able to bounce off of each other. You get a better idea of the characterization that way, the vocal rhythms of the other characters.
"When we did the animation for Star Trek, they were actually trying to be accommodating by setting their schedules around ours. So we came in individually. So it was often the case that when I was coming in, Leonard (Nimoy, Mr. Spock) was leaving. When I went into the recording booth, they would have the script with my lines underscored with a colored pen. I would just read my lines according to how that scene was played. I never played with Leonard. Then when I was leaving, Jimmy Doohan (Scotty), would come in and do his lines."
"When we did the animation for Star Trek, they were actually trying to be accommodating by setting their schedules around ours. So we came in individually. So it was often the case that when I was coming in, Leonard (Nimoy, Mr. Spock) was leaving. When I went into the recording booth, they would have the script with my lines underscored with a colored pen. I would just read my lines according to how that scene was played. I never played with Leonard. Then when I was leaving, Jimmy Doohan (Scotty), would come in and do his lines."
So what else has he been doing?
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"Last year, I did a British reality show called I'm A Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!. There they got twelve celebrities from many different arenas. This includes someone who was a member of Parliament, a woman who is the Barbara Walters of British television, and a children's TV show host. The only one I knew was Martina Navratalova, the tennis player. "We were all sent to the rain forests of Australia for three weeks, living off of basically only beans and rice, facing various challenges. This show is enormously popular. It was the highest rated show the weeks it was on.
This is why I don't watch TV any more.
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