William Shatner was to take the stage of London’s Eventim Apollo Theater on March 16, 2020, when the British Prime Minister made a frightening announcement.
“That afternoon, Boris Johnson shut down everything – not more than 500 people,” Shatner told the Post of his first encounter with the coronovirus epidemic. “It was a sold out audience: 3,500 people were waiting for me.”
But the “Star Trek” actor, who turned 90 on Monday, has never been like twisting his thumbs and standing idly. Capt. Kirk gets the job done.
The contemporary musician said, “I wrote a song, ‘Monday in London,’ wondering when the audience would come, no matter what the audience was.” “I stepped in front of the curtain, and 3,500 people stayed.”
Nevertheless, that precarious day marked a revolutionary change for the artist, who has moved at the pace of the taunt since first donning the yellow captain’s uniform on “Star Trek” in 1966. The rest of his tour through the UK, like all other live performances, has been canceled, and he is back at home in Southern California with two of his dogs, one of whom loudly told himself during a zoom interview To go to
“This is my male dog who is doing the best he can to protect his Doberman from other dogs,” he said. “Other dogs … You never know what other dogs are going to do!”
The animal lover said: “The female dog, we just blushed. We are waiting for her to hunt.”
Like an unexpectedly productive afternoon in London, Shatner, who was recently vaccinated, is dabbling in a vast array of projects from the comfort of his home.
Right now, he is promoting his new comedy film called “Senior Moment” on Friday, in which he plays the character of Victor, a Palm Springs, California, Hatshot who refuses to show his age. (Smart Casting.) In the film, “Star Trek” romances actor Jean Smart, who is 21 years old.
“She’s beautiful !,” he said. “Here is this beautiful lady who is talented and a great bliss! We just had the best time. I love her.”
Shatner is also producing a new album. While he is known for such roles as the title character on “Star Trek” and “TJ Hooker”, and as Denny Crane on “Boston Legal”, the actor is also a prolific recording artist who is finally spoken for Wally is receiving some praise for the strange mix. Words and songs.
He worked with Ben Folds on his 2004 personal album “Has Been” (Pitchfork called it “Deceptive, seductive, honest, deep”), and in October he dropped “William Shatner – The Blues,” notably. Peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Blues Chart.
He told The Post that he would soon be releasing a new album, his 13th, a collaboration with a New York poet.
“It’s picked up from what, I understand, is the world’s biggest label – Universal,” he said before mentioning some of his new Universal Music Group colleagues: “Jonas Brothers!”
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Shatner called the album “autobiographical”, saying that every song would be about an event in his life. He describes one in which, during a road trip through Canada, a truck hit his small car on a bridge. “It’s called ‘Bridge,” he said. “In life, we’re always going across a bridge, and there’s always an 18-wheeler coming at us, and a way to survive.”
He is also focusing on the less-traditional method of living: 3-D holograms.
“I have become part of a 3-D company – a virtual reality company – that now has the technical ability to project on a 3-D figure platform,” Shatner said of his other venture, in which he Dreamed of a day. The world in the form of holograms.
“In the very near future, it will all be automated,” he said of Tech’s final frontier. “We will see each other in 3-D. This is all going to be different. Within the next five years. “
Shatner also suggested that soon, talk could take place in cemeteries, artificially intelligent virtual replicas of their occupants. “You can keep it on your gravity,” he said. “And someone comes and says, ‘Shatner! What was your favorite role, your favorite episode?’ And it would say, ‘My favorite episode was …'”
Added 90 years old: “Isn’t that wild ?!”
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