Some new background details on Jaylah, the warrior woman portrayed by Sofia Boutella in this summer’s STAR TREK BEYOND, have been revealed by Empire Magazine in their August issue, expanding our knowledge of this fierce fighter – plus: learn the name of the movie’s new planet!
Spoilers below!
In an interview with the actress, Empire sketches out some history on Jaylah, that she’s grew up stranded on Altamid – the planet seen in the BEYOND trailers – and that she uses some technological trickery to keep an advantage over her enemies.
The crew is separated into unusual pairings: Spock with Bones; Kirk with Chekov; Sulu with Uhura; and Scotty with Jaylah, who was stranded on Krall’s deadly planet as a child, after an earlier attack by the villain.
[Footage screened for Empire introduces] Jaylah on the planet Altamid, where a number of the Enterprise crew have landed after the ship’s demise. As Scotty is about to be offed by unfriendly aliens, Jaylah leaps to his rescue.
She speaks in a broken English that [Simon] Pegg wrote for Boutella’s accent, and fights with balletic grace, at one point alongside two holographic projects of herself.
It’s nice to finally put a name to the planet – instead of having to keep calling it “the planet”! – and the detail about holographic projections lines up with the tactic we see Kirk take while on the move:
Keep coming back for more STAR TREK BEYOND news as we approach the July release!