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"Chris Pine has revealed he studied William Shatner&amp;#039;s performance as James Kirk before taking on the iconic role in the new Star Trek movie. The young actor was given remastered DVDs of the original television series to watch by director J.J. Abrams and admitted: &amp;quot;I really found myself paying more attention to &amp;#039;How could I perfect the ideal &amp;#039;William Shatner as James T. Kirk&amp;#039; impression?&amp;#039;, and that was not the mandate that J.J. had set forth at the beginning of this process. &amp;quot;While paying homage to what was done before so you kind of have a sense of continuity between Mr. Shatner and myself, it really was time to breathe new life into these characters and give it a new fresh perspective. So I kind of abandoned that effort and I felt that I had gotten enough of the series and the world and the spirit with which Gene Roddenberry had created the series.&amp;quot; Pine, speaking at a Star Trek press conference in London, added that &amp;quot;then it was really a matter of a conversation between J.J. and I about what little nuances we could pick from Mr. Shatner\u00E2\u20AC\u2122s performance to pepper in my own.&amp;quot; &amp;gt; Click here for our review of Star Trek "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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