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William Shatner: ‘I don’t know’ George Takei anymore

steveda19

steveda19

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William Shatner opens up his home for the new DIY show “The Shatner Project,” as he and his wife renovate their house. He tells Hoda and guest co-host Jenna Bush Hager that he doesn’t know what his role, if any, will be in a new “Star Trek” film.

http://www.today.com/video/today/56271964#56271964
WHAT? He doesn't know George Takei anymore :alienblush:
 
O.o Okkkay. That's kind of awkward.

Have a link to a transcript of the video? I can't get it to load. Dang flash keeps on crashing :(.
 
steveda19 said:
William Shatner opens up his home for the new DIY show “The Shatner Project,” as he and his wife renovate their house. He tells Hoda and guest co-host Jenna Bush Hager that he doesn’t know what his role, if any, will be in a new “Star Trek” film.

http://www.today.com/video/today/56271964#56271964
WHAT? He doesn't know George Takei anymore :alienblush:
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I got the impression that he'd just rather not be asked about George Takei. Seems an odd thing to ask anyway, since Takei has nothing to do with either the renovation project or the next movie.
 
The hosts don't even bring up the movie and Takei until the last 60 seconds, and Shat obviously wants to talk about his tv show. He doesn't say anything new about Takei we haven't already heard a thousand times before. They don't see each other socially, he's always been clear about that. Everything he says about Trek is covered in the thread title and last sentence of the OP.
 
steveda19 said:
William Shatner opens up his home for the new DIY show “The Shatner Project,” as he and his wife renovate their house. He tells Hoda and guest co-host Jenna Bush Hager that he doesn’t know what his role, if any, will be in a new “Star Trek” film.

http://www.today.com/video/today/56271964#56271964
WHAT? He doesn't know George Takei anymore :alienblush:
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He's just saying that they're not friends, and he's not someone that Shatner spends any time thinking about outside of stupid non sequitur interview questions designed to try to get him to say something controversial or snide about Takei. I thought he handled it well considering how often he gets asked to comment on this silly trumped up rivalry.
 
Dr. Sevrin said:
The hosts don't even bring up the movie and Takei until the last 60 seconds, and Shat obviously wants to talk about his tv show. He doesn't say anything new about Takei we haven't already heard a thousand times before. They don't see each other socially, he's always been clear about that. Everything he says about Trek is covered in the thread title and last sentence of the OP.
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I don't get why anyone cares whether they're friends or not? I wasn't "friends" with every person I've worked with. :shrug:
 
BillJ said:
I don't get why anyone cares whether they're friends or not? I wasn't "friends" with every person I've worked with. :shrug:
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Exactly. Work acquaintances are sometimes just that, work acquaintances, not personal friends. For many actors, people they consider actual friends are people they know who knew them when young, or not even in the business.

Shatner is definitely playing to his on-set audience in that video.
 
Beyond which, by Shatner's accounts Takei was a guy he worked with on the average of one day out of every ten. :lol:
 
Dennis said:
Beyond which, by Shatner's accounts Takei was a guy he worked with on the average of one day out of every ten. :lol:
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Whatever, according to the historical documents, they were around each other all the time!

However, Takei was always taking something called "The Conn" and I never saw him give it back, so maybe that is why Shatner's mad.
 
Dennis said:
Jedi_Master said:
Dennis said:
Beyond which, by Shatner's accounts Takei was a guy he worked with on the average of one day out of every ten. :lol:
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Whatever, according to the historical documents, they were around each other all the time!
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I had to parse that carefully before declining to argue with it. Never give up, never surrender! ;)
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On Teb! On!!!

The greatest Star Trek parody ever made. I love that movie.
 
Dr. Sevrin said:
BillJ said:
I don't get why anyone cares whether they're friends or not? I wasn't "friends" with every person I've worked with. :shrug:
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Exactly. Work acquaintances are sometimes just that, work acquaintances, not personal friends. For many actors, people they consider actual friends are people they know who knew them when young, or not even in the business.

Shatner is definitely playing to his on-set audience in that video.
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True. :vulcan:
 
So what? There are loads of people in my life I've worked alongside every day for 3-4 years straight at one point or another, and I've never once seen them since I or they left, or have either of us made contact with each other.

It's just life. Some people seem to think actors are different and should all be best friends with each other just like the fictional charactes they play. Well they aren't.
 
In the past, whenever they all got together for a new film, an interview invariably always had at least one person talking about the sense of family they all felt for each other even though they had not seen each other since the last film. All was sunshine and lollipops, never a sour tale was told.

Then the Shatner Roast occurred and with it all the ugly truth was finally revealed.
 
Nah, all of this was public a long time before the Shatner Roast - that in itself was good-natured. Takei had been publicly talking trash about Shatner for years.
 
The Creeper said:
In the past, whenever they all got together for a new film, an interview invariably always had at least one person talking about the sense of family they all felt for each other even though they had not seen each other since the last film. All was sunshine and lollipops, never a sour tale was told.

Then the Shatner Roast occurred and with it all the ugly truth was finally revealed.
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You mean the truth behind every film ever made ?
 
Ethros said:
It's just life. Some people seem to think actors are different and should all be best friends with each other just like the fictional characters they play. Well they aren't.
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Are you seriously saying that people who make a TV show together don't all live in the one house like The Monkees?
 
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