Star Trek Actor Had To Be ‘Prepared’ To Work With JJ Abrams

Actor Karl Urban believes no film ever turns out the way you first hope – particularly when working with a “fluid” director such as JJ Abrams on Star Trek: Into Darkness.

“For better or worse, a film never turns out the way you first imagined it,” Urban told theMusic in a recent interview.

“It's always a leap of faith. In this instance, though, we're working with JJ, one of the most gifted filmmakers currently behind the camera. He's a very fluid director – you could be in the middle of a scene and he may throw you a new line of dialogue or even rewrite the scene then and there and you have to be prepared for that. For me as an actor, it's a very exciting environment to work in. We're all there to energise these characters and present something new to the audience, and that's what JJ does.”

The creative relationship between Urban and Abrams will go beyond Star Trek, with the two collaborating on the upcoming TV pilot Human.

“The premise of the series is that it explores that point in the evolution of mankind where we realise the genie is out of the bottle and there's nothing we can do to get it back,” says Urban. “To me, that is incredibly interesting, fertile ground. If we get picked up and get a chance to run with it, we'll get the chance to deliver a series that's fun and action-packed but also very thought-provoking.”

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And here's Film Carew's review of Star Trek: Into The Darkness.