George Takei continued his public feud with his Star Trek co-star William Shatner this week by describing him as a “prima donna” whom “none” of the sci-fi present’s solid obtained alongside with.
“He’s only a cantankerous old man and I’m going to depart him to his gadgets,” Takei informed the Guardian in an interview. “I’m not going to play his sport.”
But Takei gave the impression to be responding to Shatner’s interview with the Times UK during which he known as his Star Trek co-stars “bitter” and mentioned they frequently criticise him “for publicity”.
“I started to grasp that they had been doing it for publicity,” Shatner mentioned. “Sixty years after some incident, they’re nonetheless on that observe. Don’t you assume that is a bit of bizarre? It’s like a illness. George has by no means stopped blackening my identify. These individuals are bitter and embittered. I’ve run out of endurance with them. Why give credence to folks consumed by envy and hate?”
In the Guardian interview, Takei mentioned Shatner was utilizing his identify to publicise his current e-book, Boldly Go: Reflections On A Life Of Awe And Wonder.
“So I made a decision I do not want his identify to get publicity,” Takei mentioned. “I’ve way more substantial material that I need to get publicity for.”
Takei was selling the UK premiere of his Broadway musical Allegiance, which is impressed by his story throughout World War II when the US authorities imprisoned his household and different Japanese Americans in incarceration websites. Takei stars within the manufacturing that runs from January to April in a 13-week run.
Takei performed Hikaru Sulu and Shatner starred as Capt James T. Kirk within the iconic TV sequence and Star Trek movies. The feud has lasted for many years and nicely after the final time they had been on set collectively.
Takei beforehand accused Shatner of being “very self-centred”. In his 1994 biography To the Stars, Takei accused Shatner of ignoring him on the Star Trek set and altering the script for Star Trek V so his character would not take command of a spaceship. There was additionally a public disagreement over whether or not Shatner was invited to Takei’s 2008 wedding ceremony.
Shatner has mentioned he pities Takei and has claimed that “there is a psychosis there” relating to Takei and that there is one thing “festering” within the actor. In his 2011 memoir Shatner Rules, he mentioned that their discord was a results of Takei’s unwillingness to play second fiddle on the present.
Takei had different names for him, calling Shatner “a guinea pig” after the 90-year-old’s October flight aboard Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin house capsule. The journey made Shatner the oldest particular person to launch into house. – Los Angeles Times/Tribune News Service
