![]() We’re so much more connected, but we’ve never been more fractured as a culture. ZQ: The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another. So in the 21st century, are we moving in the right direction? Roddenberry’s TV series had the utopian sense that in time we’ll become less warlike, more peaceful. At first she’s defensive and protective, and then there is hope for her to actually get out of there. When she meets with them I think there is hope for her at some point. She kept busy by putting her outfit together, and finding pieces to build her defences and surviving. She watched a lot of videos, and that’s how she learned the language. But I think she found things within the ship that kept her going. It’s difficult to survive on your own, but did it for a very long time, and had to get by in a very solitary way. Is that how you saw Jaella, as someone self-sufficient, but also learns she can lean on other people too? Well, your character starts off alone, but becomes part of a family, so to speak. To think you can do it alone is just ridiculous. Thinking you can is ridiculous, especially going into the middle half of the 21st century. Working together always works together better… it also appeals to a primal, animal thing, which is that humans are social creatures. Not to be super reductive about, that’s what it feels like it’s about, to me. It’s essentially – the question that it asks – is, “Is the Federation good?” The good guys think it is and the bad guy does not, and the bad guy ends up alone, and the good guys end up with their family. I like this film because there’s a simplicity to the theme. Is that something you guys picked up in this?ĬP: Uh, yeah. While this remains a summer blockbuster, popcorn film, I think underneath that are some more resonant themes that are reflective of the times we’re living in. I think, you know, over the next generation, we’re going to see which way we turn as a civilisation. The other is less tolerant and more judgemental and more fear-driven and fear-based. The razor-sharp line of division that exists between political ideologies in our own country in the United States, I think it’s clear that these movements are forming – and one is more forward thinking and more embracing and more inclusive. We’re living in an increasingly nationalistic, xenophobic time, and you can see it reflected in societies all over the world – whether it’s here in the UK with the whole Brexit debacle, or in Australia where we just came from, where their most recent elections were too close to call. Do you think that’s an important thing to express right now? About the Federation bringing different races and cultures together. One of the themes in the film seems to be inclusivity. And so through that fracturing we spend a long time finding our way back to one another, and learning a lot about ourselves in the process. So yeah, it’s great to watch, and I think thematically, it says that a crew is never stronger than when they’re together. Kirk and Chekov and Scottie, and then Jaella added into the mix. Sulu and Uhura spend a lot of time together in the movie. Certainly, in the case of Spock and Bones, who spend a lot of the film together. And I think that’s really exciting for the audience, because you have an experience of these characters as you wouldn’t normally see them, and in relation to characters they might not spend the majority of their time with. It splits us apart and it splits us into groupings that we wouldn’t normally be in. ZQ: I think what this does is it takes the crew and it fractures us. It was a great collaboration.ĭo you think it’s more of an ensemble piece, this movie? Because for you, Sofia, there’s obviously loads of action for you. And Simon’s worked with us twice before so he has a great sense of what we do and do well. He was very collaborative, and this felt like, the third one in, we have a better sense of who we are as characters. And then on the day, whether he was in the scene or not, he’d be around for consultation, basically. Did you have a say in the tone of your characters in this movie?ĬP: Yeah, Simon actually called us up pretty early on and asked if there’s anything we’d particularly like to do or see in your characters. Your characters have evolved quite a lot from the young Star Fleet recruits of the first film. I thought that would’ve been really funny. CP: Yeah! We didn’t really have much time for that preamble stuff, but we had a breakfast burrito version, a coffee version, which ended up staying in… I lobbied for the breakfast burrito moment, but it did not win out.
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