âSeeing Nichelle Nichols as Uhura (Star Trek) totally stuck with me,â said Jenny Lumet, granddaughter to the iconic Lena Horne who executive produces âStar Trek: Discoveryâ on
CBS, about why she got involve with the Star Trek franchise. âNothing worked without her. Communications in the universe was channeled through her. So a black woman saved the universe. So Iâm a fan of her.â
CBS gave the New York native a four year deal. She is co-creator and executive producer of the series âClarice;â executive producer of âStar Trek: Discovery;â co-creator, writer and executive producer of âStar Trek: Strange New Worlds;â she co-wrote an episode titled âRunawayâ for the Emmy nominated âStar Trek: Short Treksâ mini-series and she is the creator, writer and executive producer of Showtimeâs âBlackbird: Lena Horne and Americaâ series.
Despite COVID-19 restrictions, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds star Anson Mount says production on the series is going smoothly. That s despite having to have some crewmembers quarantine after coming into contact with a guest star who tested positive for COVID-19. COVID [protocol] makes everything [.]
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Anson Mount is playing a contract killer with a difference in his new movie, The Virtuoso. “I don’t know about you,” he says in a Zoom call from his home near the Toronto base of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, “but I feel like the storyline that is centred around a contract killer has in a way become a little tired. This was something that completely reimagined it because it’s not really about that.”
Mount’s character – simply credited as The Virtuoso (all the characters are named after their jobs) – carries out a hit, but things go wrong, and an innocent bystander is burned to death in front of her child. “It’s a very strange coming of age story about somebody who was raised to believe he was somewhere on the psychopathic spectrum but when something goes wrong, he starts to break his own rules. He doesn’t know why, but we as the audience realise he’s developing a conscience and he doesn’t know what it is. You wat
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Anson Mount became part of the Star Trek universe at the start of season two of Star Trek: Discovery, playing the role of Captain Christopher Pike – as played by Jeffrey Hunter in the original Star Trek pilot, The Cage.
James T Kirk’s predecessor as Captain of the USS Enterprise, Pike was fleshed out on Discovery and two of the Short Treks that followed before Mount took the centre seat for a whole series of adventures, currently filming – Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. It wasn’t something he’d expected – he’d believed Pike was a “one-season gig” – but has been delighted to return, particularly after such a warm reception from fans.