By accident the hosts introduces Leonard as
"Lemon Nimoy",
excuses and both share a good laugh.
"How did Spock affect your personality?"
"I think a lot in terms of functioning logically, thinking logically, I am
much more emotionally directed than before Star Trek..."
"You aren't like Spock?"
"Personally, you mean? Only on Sunday."
"Oh, but Larry Hagman doesn't speak on Sunday."
"Is that true?" "Yeah."
...book
I Am Not Spock: "It was a mistake (telling the story of the boy at the
airport)."
"ST III and IV did very well."
The clip of ST IV is
shown and Leonard shares that he got the idea when someone with a ghetto-blaster came out on the street in New York
thinking "If I were Spock I'd pinch his brains out And that's why it's in the movie."
"Did you push it to direct ST III? Did you say 'I don't play if I cannot direct?'"
"I wasn't that crass, I was more gentle
about it, saying: 'Look, you have two problems, you need someone to play Spock
and someone to direct the picture. I can solve both of the problems.'"
... "The make-up for Spock took 2 hours"...
(about the mood in ST IV) "...if you wanted to be important you're gonna be serious."
"...we had a lot of fun. We laughed a lot."
Three Men and A Baby: "You had a lot of
fun, too?"
"We laughed a lot... The only problem was that the little baby didn't realize she was being paid and did not always do what she was asked to."
"So, the kid was not a pro?"
"No, the kid wasn't a pro." (laughing)
"What about your own childhood?"
"I think a very interesting childhood, I wouldn't say it was the happiest childhood
- you know it was depression
time and my father was a barber, he was on his feet all the time, I had an older brother who got most of his way
most of the time, and I had to kind of defer to him, but I was raised in Boston which was very rich in culture.
In a tenement neighbourhood that was multi- ethnic, lots of Italian, lots of Jewish people, Polish, Irish.
The music in Boston was very rich, the theatre was very rich, the languages. I was exposed to a lot of interesting
lifestyle. I grew up in a neighbourhood known as the West End. And I was acting in a theatre on a street called
Charles Street and when I came here to work in London for the first time I lived in Mayfair on Charles Street.
It was a very interesting place to grow up and I think very rich in culture and very helpful to me."
"You know what they say about the second child syndrome. Were you as the second child feeling that the first got
all the attention? Did it make you look for attention?"
"No, what it made me do was to choose to be the
second banana. I thought: 'Don't grab the spotlight because the older brother might get upset.' I was taught:
'Lay back, let him have his way, let him have his way, don't get him upset.' So, I was perfectly trained to play
characters like Spock, and let Captain do all the job."
"How extraordinary. You came to your own now?"
"I gave it up. I gave it up, finally. That's enough of that."
The Good Mother. Leonard gives a summary.
"... Very tough stuff... the work
is extraordinary."
A clip is shown. "It is about the morality in the eighties... where others say:
'I don't think
she should be allowed to do that.' ... The sixties can not be realized... I chose it because I really grew up in
drama and I found myself being a great success in science fiction and in comedy, but hadn't had the opportunity
to doing a good drama... It feels like a homecoming to me."
St V ... "Shatner is a physical guy, so
we do a lot more running and jumping."
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