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'Star Trek: Strange New Worlds' cast and executive producers stop by THR's studio at San Diego Comic-Con and reveal if they plan to end the series with the full original cast. Plus, Paul Wesley reveals if he would consider directing an episode and Rebecca Romijn talks about what it was like returning to the role of Mystique for 'Avengers: Doomsday.'
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00:00If you guys have to go on the floor and you have to hide, what would you wear?
00:05Mystique.
00:09That was quick.
00:10It's a very long costume to get into.
00:19I want to start off with some questions to Akiva and Henry.
00:23Are you planning to end the series with the full OG cast of characters?
00:30Wow, straight for a spoiler.
00:35Straight for the jugular.
00:36The full OG cast doesn't exist at the very front of the TOS era.
00:42So we're going to get as close as possible while not jumping deep into the TOS seasons.
00:49Wow.
00:50I'm not sure you answered it.
00:53You're going to meet some of them for sure.
00:56And there's going to be some surprises.
00:59Okay.
01:00Speaking of surprises, are we ever going to see Romulans?
01:03You've seen Romulans.
01:04You saw Romulans in season one.
01:07I can't keep up.
01:08Okay, what about, are we going to see Cyborg?
01:09But you may see them again.
01:11Oh, Cyborg.
01:12Cyborg.
01:12Cyborg.
01:13Cyborg.
01:14Can you see that guy?
01:14Oh, well, it's interesting you should ask that.
01:16Yeah, that's so funny.
01:17Interesting question.
01:18You very well may see Cyborg.
01:21You very well may see Cyborg.
01:23I love non-answer answers.
01:25Will there be a SNW spinoff as we get to...
01:31You know, we will beg and borrow when Skydance comes in to see whether we can do it.
01:38We would like to not strike the sets.
01:40We have the technology.
01:41We like them very much.
01:42We love our sets so much.
01:44And we have a lot of the...
01:46We have most of the people.
01:46We have a lot of the cast.
01:47A lot of crew.
01:48Yes.
01:49Writers.
01:49We have the writers.
01:50We have everybody very willing and able and eager.
01:53Do you have the ending of season five already in your head?
01:57Wow.
01:58Yes.
01:58We've broken season five.
01:59Boris.
01:59Okay.
02:00Boris.
02:00I'm very hard to know.
02:02That's how you...
02:02It's, you know, a question for Paul.
02:05Okay.
02:06Okay.
02:06Do we need to hold it for you?
02:07Yes, please.
02:08Yeah.
02:09And Akiva stay right there.
02:10Yeah.
02:10This is how he treats you.
02:10You've directed some TV episodes before.
02:15Yeah.
02:16Have you ever thought of directing or have asked to direct an episode of Trek?
02:21I have not.
02:23And truthfully, I've directed a bunch of episodes of Ampire Diaries, which I was also in.
02:30And it was one of the hardest things I could do.
02:32Because I'm an actor, right?
02:33So you watch playback and you're like, oh, well, that's terrible.
02:35You just want to keep doing takes.
02:37So you have to, like, kind of disconnect from the acting and just be an objective director.
02:43And I find it's doable, but it's also, like, kind of difficult.
02:49So the short answer is no, I have not asked.
02:52And it's something I prefer not to be in something when I'm directing it.
02:55That's why you shouldn't watch playback.
02:57I'd like to direct Chrissy, though.
02:58What?
02:59Go ahead, Chrissy.
03:00You direct me anyway.
03:01But let's ask this.
03:06Akiva, if Paul asked to direct an episode, would you allow him?
03:10Which one is Paul?
03:13There we go.
03:14Answered.
03:15First and answered.
03:17A question for the actor.
03:17Do actors like when other actors give you notes?
03:21No.
03:22No.
03:22That's a no-no.
03:23No.
03:24Paul Wesley.
03:24You never do that.
03:25You're the queen.
03:27That's a no-no.
03:28And some people are guilty of it.
03:29What?
03:30That's what Chrissy told me.
03:31Are you kidding me?
03:33Oh, wait.
03:33Oh, it goes both ways?
03:34Oh, the two.
03:35Oh, I got it.
03:36Okay, okay.
03:36So Chrissy's no angel.
03:38What about the interviews about the last episode?
03:40I know.
03:41You're on the last episode.
03:42I know.
03:43I'm saying.
03:43You haven't answered.
03:45Answered if actors give each other notes?
03:49No.
03:49I don't think that's usually acceptable.
03:52Sometimes, I think sometimes there's a time and a place.
03:55Sometimes we do what's called a series of a line, which is the camera keeps rolling.
03:58You just do different takes of a particular line.
04:01And typically, it's for comedy.
04:02And sometimes, it is nice to have a suggestion.
04:04It's really difficult not to suggest when we're doing, I think, comedy.
04:07Because it's fun, and you want to be involved and included in it.
04:11And so that might be a time and a place.
04:14But typically...
04:15And sometimes, it's nice to ask for other people's input.
04:17Like, what do you think sounds better?
04:18If I do it like this, or if I do it like that?
04:20Yeah.
04:20Usually, I ask after it's been done, and I'm like, was that okay?
04:24Or was that the end of my career?
04:25So, you can't really actually take notes after it's done.
04:29You can, like...
04:30I think when it's on your coverage, you can sometimes, if you're supporting somebody in
04:35their coverage, you can say, do you want anything from me differently to, like, help
04:39with that?
04:39But I think that's a different thing.
04:40Yeah, that's different, yeah.
04:42That's a more politically correct.
04:43Like, a more...
04:45It's more supportive rather than, like, do this.
04:46Yeah, yeah.
04:47Okay.
04:48It's like a pretty big no-no.
04:50Yeah.
04:50It's a pretty big no-no.
04:52Generally speaking, it's a no-no.
04:53I'm glad we talked about that.
04:57Question for Jess.
04:58Yeah.
04:58What is more soapier?
05:01Strange New Worlds or Home and Away?
05:03Now, be careful.
05:06Why would I have to be careful?
05:07You might have to be careful.
05:09Oh, Home and Away, for sure.
05:11I've played two different characters on Home and Away.
05:14Oh, you have?
05:15Yeah.
05:15I just play on Home and Away.
05:16Yeah, years ago.
05:17Don't look it up.
05:18I'm definitely going to look it up.
05:19Home and Away is that very famous Australian soap show that everyone gets their start on
05:25before they move to America.
05:26It's like a rite of passage.
05:27Totally.
05:28Yeah, it's like how you break into the acting world.
05:30So it's Star Trek.
05:32Do you think so?
05:33Come on.
05:34Okay.
05:35Everyone's afraid to speak right now.
05:37And that's the only serialized element of our show, because the rest of it is Mission
05:41of the Week.
05:42But yeah, I guess there are certain viewers that tune in for all that.
05:44Shipping.
05:45That's the thing, yes.
05:47With real ships.
05:47Shipping?
05:48Ships.
05:48Ja'an.
05:49Ja'an.
05:50Oh, like shipping to couples.
05:52Yeah.
05:52Jack, you, I think, probably just came back from the set of Doomsday.
05:56Yes.
05:57Are you, are you done shooting your, your scenes?
05:59Uh, not quite sure.
06:01The script hasn't, they haven't finished writing it.
06:03Yeah, it's, it's been very, very fun and extremely, uh, it's been very, very fun.
06:09And we don't know yet.
06:10They, they keep everything very close to the vest themselves in an effort to keep everything
06:15under wraps.
06:15Have you read the entire script?
06:17I cannot confirm nor deny that I have read the entire script.
06:22Uh, who are your scenes with?
06:23I can't say.
06:24Wow.
06:24And you know I'd love to.
06:25This is great.
06:26But it was very surreal to be with my old cast as well as a new cast.
06:32I will say that.
06:33I had crazy dreams while I was there for a large chunk of shooting.
06:37Like flashbacks?
06:38Like really, like, kind of regressive dreams.
06:40Like leaving a set, like going through that makeup process and having dreams where I was
06:44going home to a house that I used to live in back then that I hated.
06:48It was very strange.
06:49Like my brain was really trying to organize.
06:51Like, wow, this is a character I played 25 years ago, 20 years ago.
06:54Wow, that would be true.
06:54Yeah, very surreal.
06:55How do you do that as an actor to go back to, again, a role that you've played before
07:00and you sort of know, but...
07:02Oh, I know her very well.
07:03I went back in with full ownership of her.
07:06It was very nice to go back and play that character.
07:09Because I had imposter syndrome at the very beginning.
07:11I thought maybe at the very beginning I was just cast because I happened to be the model
07:14who was available to play Mystique at that moment.
07:16I mean, I auditioned and I got the role, but I was like, oh, wow.
07:20Because when you're very young, you're like, do I deserve to be here?
07:22And I did not have that going back this time.
07:24It was a very different experience going back.
07:25I can't wait to see it.
07:26Me neither.
07:28That must have been somewhat healing though.
07:29Yeah, for sure.
07:31For sure.
07:32Awesome.
07:32Yeah.
07:32So cool.
07:33On the show, people talk about Anson's hair.
07:36But I want to talk about this guy's hair.
07:38Look at his hair today.
07:39I think it's fantastic.
07:40Look at his hair.
07:43Thanks.
07:46Yeah, everyone thinks it's a wig, the Spock bowl cut.
07:49But we've got just a wonderful head of hair department, Daniel Lascaux, and he flat irons
07:53it and manipulates it into the beautiful-
07:56With a wonderful head of hair.
07:57Exactly.
07:57Into the beautiful bowl cut.
07:59When you read the script of an episode, do you circle the word fascinating?
08:02No, that's really funny you ask that.
08:06But I do say a lot of words, a lot of the same words throughout the course of the series,
08:10like indicates, sensor readings, blah, blah, you know, this kind of thing.
08:14And at this point in time, they do start to get mixed up in my head.
08:16And so we're filming a scene for five hours, and I can't figure out if it's sensor readings
08:21or ship's sensors.
08:23And, you know, it's like, it's a nightmare.
08:24Thanks a lot, guys.
08:26Does that vocabulary bleed into real life?
08:29100%, yeah.
08:30Okay.
08:30It's probably really irritating to my friends, yeah.
08:32Last season, you guys had the crossover episode with Lower Decks, which was a fantastic-
08:39That is true.
08:40Piece of work.
08:41Have you guys considered doing an all-animated episode?
08:45We did.
08:46We considered doing an all-animated sort of TAS version of the show.
08:53And, you know, as Henry was sort of saying-
08:55Those animated scientists?
08:56I'm going to explain it to you later, because those are-
08:58It's confusing, because those are the old-
09:00Yeah.
09:01And we abandoned it.
09:04You know, there are actually, you know, as Henry was sort of saying, there are a series
09:07of ideas we just end up not-
09:11We only have 10 episodes, you know, per season.
09:13So that was one we really dug pretty deep into, but ultimately abandoned.
09:17Do you think you can come back to it?
09:19That sounds like a fantastic, cool idea.
09:21I mean, we love the animated series.
09:24We were looking for ways to bring it into the show.
09:26It's just that we're not always capable of finding something to do in every format that
09:31we want to do.
09:31It's more about spending a lot of time trying to think of what's an interesting format we
09:35have not seen on our show.
09:37That's what we spend our time with.
09:38Okay.
09:39Well, you know what?
09:39It's popcorn bucket time.
09:41Yay!
09:43Thank goodness.
09:43Thank God.
09:44Finally.
09:45Okay.
09:45I'll just grab one.
09:46Yeah, yeah.
09:47What's the best cosplay you've seen at Comic-Con this year?
09:50The ones that-
09:51I'm going to go with Akiva.
09:52Look at, check out his-
09:53Oh, feels right.
09:54He's a very good cosplayer.
09:56You look just like him, right?
09:56You look just like him.
09:58It's uncanny.
09:59It's believable.
10:00Well, speaking of cosplay, then, how about this?
10:01If you guys have to go on the floor and you have to hide, what would you wear?
10:07Mystique.
10:08That was quick.
10:12Very, very long change.
10:13That's a very long costume to get into.
10:16Gosh.
10:17Chewbacca?
10:18Something that really hides you.
10:19You know what I mean?
10:20Like something-
10:21Something you can zip up easily to get inside of with a mask.
10:25Batman.
10:26Batman.
10:26Yeah.
10:27Something with a mask.
10:28I would just do the bowl cut.
10:30Ethan's bowl cut.
10:31I would go as Stefan-
10:34Stefan.
10:35Stefan.
10:35Don't act.
10:36Don't pretend.
10:37Don't pretend.
10:40Oh, me now?
10:41Yeah, yeah.
10:41You guys all take a turn.
10:43Okay.
10:43Oh, what's the best TV theme song ever?
10:46Bonus points if you sing it.
10:47Oh, my God.
10:48Oh, Adventure Time.
10:49Sing it!
10:49Adventure Time?
10:50Sing it!
10:50Oh, yeah.
10:50Adventure Time.
10:52Come on, grab your friends.
10:54Something, something fun never ends.
10:56With Jake the dog and Finn the human.
10:58Na-na-na-na-na-na.
11:00It's Adventure Time.
11:01Wow.
11:02Wow.
11:03I would go with, thank you for being a friend.
11:07Da-na-na-na-na-na.
11:09Traveled down the road and back again.
11:12Your heart is true.
11:13You're a pal and a confidant.
11:15You don't know Golden Girls?
11:16No.
11:17And if you threw a party.
11:19Invited everyone you knew.
11:22You would see the biggest gift would be for me.
11:25And the card attached would say, thank you for being a friend.
11:29Nobody knows the Golden Girls theme song?
11:31Woo!
11:31That was amazing.
11:32No one told your life was gonna be this way.
11:36Oh.
11:37Oh, guys, come on.
11:37We're friends.
11:38We're going to do the claps.
11:39Oh.
11:40One more time.
11:41No one told your life was gonna be this way.
11:46I don't know the rest.
11:49Feels like you're always stuck in second gear.
11:53When you haven't had your day, your week, your month, or even your year.
11:58Because I'll be there for you.
12:01Oh.
12:02Stop.
12:03You could have used the whole episode.
12:05What superpower would absolutely ruin your life?
12:11To have yourself?
12:12To have myself.
12:13But I wouldn't choose a superpower that would ruin my life.
12:16What would it?
12:16What if you can, like, just read people's minds and realize everyone doesn't like them?
12:20That's it.
12:21That's it.
12:21That's it.
12:22That's it.
12:28That's it.
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