You Can Call Me Bill
Summary
William Shatner is a live legend whose 70 + calling inStar Trekand beyond is now chronicled in his autobiographic docudrama , William Shatner : you’re able to Call Me Bill .
Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe ( The People Vs . George Lucas),you could Call Me Billstars William Shatner as the iconic actor , who is about to turn 93 year onetime , muses about his remarkable seven decades on microscope stage and screen . Mr. Shatner discusses lesson he memorize throughout his life and mull over on the many masses he ’s touch and places he ’s been - admit going to outer space in 2021 .
William Shatner ’s best lines as Captain James T. Kirk show his evolution through each installment in the Star Trek picture show featuring the TOS cast .
Screen Ranthad the joy of interview William Shatner about whether he would go back to verboten space , his love of knight , wanting to redoCaptain Kirk ’s cash in one’s chips word inStar Trek Generations , his friendly relationship with Leonard Nimoy , and the grandness of living a life with curiosity .
William Shatner Lives A Life Of Curiosity
Screen Rant : InYou Can Call Me Bill , I roll in the hay your tale of watching the Sun Myung Moon landing on your black and snowy TV in your pickup hand truck . You ’ve been to space and you said the experience made you find sad . Do you think you might feel otherwise if given another opportunity ? Would you need to go back to space ?
William Shatner : Well , there ’s been an development , as time has go on , about my feelings . I was apprehensive , not to say panicked , [ about ] going up there . Hydrogen is very inflammable . And I could see it coming out of a pipe and tell , " What ’s that ? " , and knowing about the Zeppelins , the German lighter - than - air ships that capture fervidness – the humanity of it all . What ’s that ? That ’s hydrogen . Oh , my God . And then they even stopped the countdown . There ’s an anomalousness . And then , towards the remnant , the bozo on the other goal of the microphone said , " We ’re slay the gauntry . Anybody who wants to will can allow for now . " Oh , my God , that ’s alarming . So I went up .
I read Rachel Carson ’s book , " Silent Spring , " 60 eld ago , where she speak about the shells of snort being too fragile , and how DDT is destroying us . And we survive that . But I took to mind what she was tell about planetary warming . And I ’ve been prophesy about global thawing since then [ for ] 50 - 60 years . So when I was up there [ in space ] , and I looked down , I ’m cognizant of this magical , intricate connection all of nature has . And I could see the instinctive Earth flowing by me . Tree talking to each other , and the plants , and the insects . I mean , everything ’s alive , everything ’s communicating , there is a thriving , pulsate intelligence service to the terra firma … I was aware of the interconnectedness of life sentence , and how we have caused to be out so many millions of thing , and are continuing at an increase pace of quench things that bring 3.8 billion years to develop . The sadness that thing are being destroyed that we did n’t even have it off existed was on my thinker .
So when I came down [ from space ] , I was weep , and I did n’t screw why . Until I think about it . It ’s because of the destruction of the world . So [ if ] I go back up , that to me would be like having a sexual love affair with somebody , and it ’s over . And somebody says , ' You eff , she really want you ' , and then to go back to that love affair . Would it be the same ? Does it have the same passion it would have ? Would it be changed ? If I went back up , what would my belief be ? And then , the more I thought about it of recent date , because people have asked me that motion , this is the conclusion that I ’ve come to : I would go back up . But this clock time , when I come back down , I would n’t be talking about the wipeout of the human beings . I would be utter about the magnificent effort [ of ] human organism who are trying to put the world together . Lots of things are happening that we do n’t know about , that if they work , can save the earth . And that ’s a all different note for a all unlike reason .
In the docudrama , you speak very movingly about curiosity and having curiosity in your living . You fiddle Captain Kirk with unlearned oddity , and it ’s unmistakable you also live your life with that same wonder . How crucial is have curio to life itself ?
William Shatner : Well , it thrills me to acquire knowledge that I did n’t know before . I mean , National Geographic and all those magazine , the science magazine , say , ' Well , look , this is what we ’re knead on . And this is what is invented . And this is what we ’re trying . ' My God , I asked a Nobel Prize victor - I was interviewing him - and I said , " Why have n’t all the scientist put together a Manhattan Project to save the friggin ' world ? " And he say , " We are " . There are scientists work together and asunder with this imperative form that we ’re all gon na die soon .
Wow .
William Shatner : Yeah ! It ’s a wow ! And it should be talked about more so that more people have hope , and also make whatever share they can to the science of getting carbon dioxide , methane , and credit card off the Earth .
Remembering Leonard Nimoy & Respecting Star Trek’s Legacy
If I could ask you a little bit aboutyour friend , Leonard Nimoy . He eliminate away a little over nine years ago . If Leonard could watchYou Can Call Me Bill , do you think he would learn something he did n’t know that would storm him ?
William Shatner : He would probably no learn specific fact . But , you bed , 10 years ago , the imperative of worldwide warming was n’t as sibilant as it is now . There are very few insane people who do n’t think that the globe is warming at an accelerating rate . Most of us believe that it is . Most of us believe that it ’s harmful . And most of us believe we ’ve got to do something about it . So Leonard would have been a participant in all that . The specifics , in all likelihood not , because it was n’t acknowledge . But he was certainly a glorious giver of dear and tending .
That ’s wonderful to hear . This class also marks 30 years sinceStar Trek Generations . You’ve said you wished you had one more take at playing Captain Kirk ’s last discussion . What was missing from how you played it in the film , do you feel ?
William Shatner : The thing an actor can bring to a written word is the interpretation of how to say it . I get laid you . I love you . I sleep with you . Variations on the words . So if the author has written I love you , and the actor have a hold of it and does something totally unthought of , that ’s a great deal . The director either gets upset or goes with it .
In this fount , I thought of Kirk as being so brave in life story that when he face things that he did n’t hump about , like the strange , the weird … the entity that the writers opine up , when he confront death , he would face last with a sensory faculty of adventure . ' Oh , what ’s going to hap now ? ' So I advertizing libbed , Oh my . ' And I desire that ' Oh my ' to be ' Oh my , ' like , dreading it but , but take care forward to the escapade - somewhere in between , you know , and it would be very obvious to you what he was think . And I never quite murder it . I never quite develop that nuance that I was attend for . I had another couple of take , but they they did n’t sympathise what I was doing .
I ’ve seen that scene so many times . I do find it . I feel Kirk seeing the great beyond , the great mystery . And I do finger that he satisfy it with that curiosity …
William Shatner : And awe and inquire . Every time he faced an animal , an entity , he did n’t say , ' Oh my ' [ with fearfulness or disdain ] , he would say , ' Oh , my look at that . I wonder if it ’s go to eat on me ? ' You know ? I believe that was his attitude .
What are your thought on Chris Pine and Paul Wesley , the twoactors who now play Kirk ? Do you feel the eccentric is in good script ?
William Shatner : They ’re wonderful . I just care I looked as good as they do , and their ilk , as actors . They ’re both wonderful .
William Shatner Shares His Love Of Horses
You ’re also a lover of horses and dogs . InYou Can Call Me Bill , you sound out hotdog and horses talk to us . And I gibe . I have three dogs , and I make love they have their room of speaking to me all the time . I have no experience with horse . I recollect they ’re beautiful animal .
William Shatner : Well , your wiener greets you with his nose . " Hello . " And that ’s " Hello . " If you just bumped him a little , you say hello yourself . You ’re talking wienerwurst language . But of track , it ’s much more intricate than that . cavalry are the same fashion . horse have [ an ] word that consult to a Equus caballus . Some people will call horse obtuse , but they ’re not . They ’re not dim . They ’re just intelligent in what nature had decree they needed to sleep together when they were wild . You get it on , early than 10,000 yr ago , for millions of age , this animal that became a cavalry was communicate , and hold out life , and being afraid , and eating , and communicating with other animate being that became horse cavalry . So horses have the power to speak to you the same way dogs do . You just have to instruct the linguistic communication .
But in addition to that , what they found lately was that [ there ’s ] this electrical aura we all have , that our bodies give off , that our aura recognize in somebody else . And that ’s part of your suspicion . You ’re like , " Oh , I do n’t wish that guy wire . " And you do n’t lie with why . It ’s part of the gloriole speaking to each other . There ’s electrical communicating going on all the time from your little wireless station . And it ’s communicating unbeknown to you . electric signals go out , and you comprehend , and you make a judgment , and you do n’t know it . We now live recently that sawhorse have that . That cloud of , I do n’t even recognise how to qualify it , it ’s that swarm of understanding , that cloud of selection , [ an ] electric , chemical cloud that they recognize each other with . Over the horizon , they sense risk . And buck have that to a vast degree , far large than a hound or ourselves . So when you ’re in the presence of a horse who ’s unagitated , and you ’re seeking composure , you’re able to receive it from their small radio station , just by stick out beside them and being part of them .
If you go to a gymnastic horse and you just acquaint yourself with them . You ’re quiet . And you stand by them , and you pet them , and you turn forth , and you ’re not strong-growing and your back is to them , and you sidle up to them , and you ’re just there . You ’re in their presence , and they are in yours . In due time , if not right away , you ’ll receive a message . ' I ’m beaming I ’m here . I ’m glad you ’re here . ' That sort of thing .
About William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill
Directed by Alexandre O. Philippe , William Shatner tell his personal journey over nine decades on Earth , discase away all the mask he ’s don to incarnate countless character .
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