{"id":124434,"date":"2022-06-22T06:46:34","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T05:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=124434"},"modified":"2022-11-10T09:21:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T09:21:15","slug":"star-trek-strange-new-worlds-stars-anson-mount-ethan-peck-and-rebecca-romijn-on-reprising-their-discovery-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/interviews\/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-stars-anson-mount-ethan-peck-and-rebecca-romijn-on-reprising-their-discovery-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek: Strange New Worlds stars Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn on reprising their Discovery roles"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s time to power up the bridge and boldly go on the next adventure as Trek delivers its latest offering, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds<\/em><\/strong>, a new episodic series that promises to bring all the fun and optimism of The Original Series<\/em><\/strong>. Leading the cast are Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn, each reprising their Discovery<\/em><\/strong> roles. Mount returns as Christopher Pike, the captain of a beautifully designed USS Enterprise, Peck as a baby-faced version of science officer Spock and Romijn as Pike\u2019s right-hand woman Una Chin-Riley, also known to fans of Discovery <\/em><\/strong>as Number One.<\/p>\n

Strange New Worlds<\/em><\/strong> has been a long time coming. Following the fantastic fan reaction to the main trio\u2019s arc in Discovery<\/em><\/strong>, Mount actually began actively campaigning for an Original Series <\/em><\/strong>prequel that would bring back the Enterprise with Pike at the helm, flanked by his two most respected Starfleet officers.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis will be no surprise but I\u2019ve never had a fan response to anything I\u2019ve done like that,\u201d says Mount. \u201cI didn\u2019t expect it and it\u2019s crazy to me because, you know, you go to acting school and learn to bend and morph yourself into all these shapes and then along comes a role that fits pretty well, you don\u2019t need to really screw around with your look or your persona too much. Pike is, in many ways, the closest to myself character I\u2019ve ever played, so it\u2019s ironic – or maybe it\u2019s not, maybe it\u2019s poetic – that people respond more to that than all the stuff I train for.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The character of Christopher Pike was a perfect fit for Anson Mount<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Clearly not wanting to let a good thing go, showrunner Alex Kurtzman announced in early 2020 that ideas for a Pike-led spin-off series were being tossed around. Covid-19 obviously hit three months later and brought production to a halt. Since then, the cast and crew of Strange New Worlds<\/strong><\/em> have been filming the show between lockdowns and restrictions.<\/p>\n

Now, more than three years after Mount\u2019s initial campaign, it\u2019s finally hitting screens with the launch of Paramount\u2019s new streaming service, Paramount+. For the show\u2019s stars, finally stepping back into their Starfleet-issued boots was a great feeling.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt felt amazing on a variety of levels,\u201d remembers Mount. \u201cNone of us had worked in over a year and it felt really good to get back on a set, it felt good then to start working on it, and it feels good now to [know] that people are finally going to see it. And it was also great to see Ethan and Rebecca again. We had a great time, a super time on Discovery <\/em><\/strong>together. We are blessed with having similar senses of humour, and we truly enjoy going to work because of each other. And the new cast has really added to that\u2026 There\u2019s no weak link in this chain. We really got lucky.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Peck, donning Spock\u2019s signature helmet haircut and frowny face brows brought about a mixture of emotions. \u201cOh gosh, it was crazy!\u201d he says with a laugh. \u201cI wasn\u2019t sure that the journey as Spock would continue for me after Discovery<\/em><\/strong>. We didn\u2019t know we were doing this show until a year later, I think, at least. It might have been more \u2013 the last couple of years have been such a blur! So coming back to the character was again really intimidating.<\/p>\n

“When I was first cast in the role I was so overwhelmed by the responsibility of it. I knew that I would have to undergo a very profound journey of self-discovery, personally and as an actor. It\u2019s not every day or every life that one gets called to do that. And so I\u2019m just so grateful for that. And yeah, I just hoped that I could do it!<\/p>\n

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Ethan Peck was at first overwhelmed by the responsibility of playing Spock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cI think Strange New Worlds<\/em><\/strong> depicts Spock in a way that he\u2019s never been depicted before, which is a very nuanced version of him,” Peck continues. “It\u2019s a version of him that we\u2019ve never seen before. We get to go into his inner life. What\u2019s his world like behind closed doors? What does he struggle with? What is he like romantically? These are things that I don\u2019t think have been down with the character before, at least in the amount of depth that we go into with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Unlike Mount and Peck, who play characters that have been portrayed on screen a number of times, Romijn\u2019s Una Chin-Riley was more or less a blank slate. The First Officer made her screen debut in The Original Series<\/em>\u2019<\/strong> pilot episode \u2018The Cage\u2019, played by Star Trek <\/em><\/strong>creator Gene Roddenberry\u2019s future wife Majel Barrett, and wasn\u2019t seen again until Romijn brought her to life in Discovery<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe writers are a really impressive team that have been fleshing out this character, as well as me, and we\u2019re excited!\u201d Romijn enthuses. \u201cShe\u2019s very good at her job, she takes her work very seriously, she\u2019s very fastidious and meticulous\u2026 There\u2019s a big development for her character in the first three episodes, which will continue to develop and be explored.<\/p>\n

“When they first floated the idea I was beside myself, so excited, and it\u2019s been a really interesting bit to play. It\u2019s been really fun.\u201d<\/p>\n

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is currently streaming in Paramount+<\/a>, with a new episode available every Wednesday. Read our review of the first three episodes here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After three years of delays, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is finally hitting our screens with Discovery’s Anson Mount, Ethan Peck and Rebecca Romijn at the helm. We speak to them about reprising their roles…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":124440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Entertainment","MSN_Publish_Option":true,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[1718,7,207],"tags":[7428],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/SNW_102_MG__017626_RT-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124434"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124434"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124442,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124434\/revisions\/124442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}