STAR TREK BEYOND lead guest actor Idris Elba has been fairly tight-lipped about his role in the upcoming film, which is wrapping up in Vancouver this week — but in a new interview with MTV News, he’s finally starting to open up about his Trek experience.
Simon [Pegg] and the team have written a very interesting, complex journey for my character. You’ve never seen me play a character like this.
I think ‘Star Trek’ has prided themselves as being quite classic when it comes to villains, like ‘he’s a guy who wants to end the world,’ there’s no doubt about that. But in this version of the film, there’s a slightly different twist to that.
It’s quite an interesting journey, which I think is groundbreaking for the franchise. But, it still keeps with the ‘classic bad guy is a classic bad guy’ tone.
Elba also spoke about the grueling pace of filming so far:
It’s been hard work. I’ve been doing 18-hour days. It’s tough work, but I’m looking forward to people seeing this film.
All we really know for sure is that Elba is not playing a Klingon role — so we may have to wait a while to learn much more.
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