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Vol. 61, Issue 97
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Cranbrook actor lands role in new Star Trek film Jeremy Raymond was chosen for the role in Star Trek Into Darkness by director J.J. Abrams himself
ARNE PETRYSHEN Townsman Staff
Actor Jeremy Raymond, originally from Cranbrook, boldly went where not many have gone before – onto the
re-imagined sets of one of his favourite childhood series, Star Trek. Raymond has a part in the new Star Trek Into Darkness, currently in theatres, and took some
time Tuesday afternoon to chat with the Townsman about the high-profile role. Raymond said that it was director J.J. Abrams himself that chose him
for the part. “What happened was J.J. had seen a TV movie I had done a few years ago,” Raymond said. “It was around the same time when there was a
special role that he was trying to figure out and I guess seeing me in that project triggered something and he said, ‘Get me that guy.’ He called and I came running.”
That was a TV movie called The Pastor’s Wife. “Although I was quite proud of it, I didn’t expect anything like this to come out of it, I’ll tell you that,” he said.
ARNE PETRYSHEN PHOTO
PILOTS IN TRAINING: Local air cadets had a chance to get above the cloudy skies this weekend in glider planes launched at Canadian Rockies International Airport. Pictured: cadets Cpl. G. Bue and Air Cadet C. Blackmore experience a ride in a Cessna 182 high above the valley. See Thursday’s Townsman for a photo feature of the weekend’s gliding experience.
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Raymond couldn’t talk too much about specifics on the set, since there are a lot of surprises in the movie and he didn’t want to take any chances on ruining them. But he did comment on the overall experience. “It was amazing,” he said. “It was the kind of thing, when I was a kid imagining being an actor, this was the kind of wildest dream scenario that I was imagining. So I was really wowed. And to work with J.J. Abrams... There’s a reason that so many of his movies have that wonder, that magic and that excitement. A lot of that comes from him directly. It was amazing – the energy, the enthusiasm and the ideas that were constantly pinballing in his head.” When asked whether he’d consider himself a Trekkie, he said he is careful not to categorize himself. “You always think you’re a fan, then you meet somebody who’s really into it and you’re like, ‘Oh, I wasn’t a fan,’” he said. “But yeah, I watched the original series with my dad growing up. That was the series I was always plugged in to and the one I connected with most. So it was cool to see the first reboot that J.J. did a number of years ago, because that was the series that they drew from.”
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