1989: LEONARD NIMOY on Spock and STAR TREK | Wogan | Classic Celebrity Interviews

1989: LEONARD NIMOY on Spock and STAR TREK | Wogan | Classic Celebrity Interviews | BBC Archive

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Leonard Nimoy chats to Terry Wogan about the role that will forever define him, the Vulcan Spock in Star Trek. In recent years Nimoy has become a successful feature film director, he helmed Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, its sequel Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, and also the smash hit comedy Three Men and a Baby.
Originally broadcast 18 January, 1989.
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@drewlovelyhell4892 Жыл бұрын

I haven't seen him on much other than StarTrek, but once you do, you'll realise that he is a tremendous actor.

@MichaelBennett1 Жыл бұрын

The fact that Spock became real in some many peoples eyes is a clue to have good of an actor he is.

@drewlovelyhell4892 Жыл бұрын

@@MichaelBennett1 Also, in the original series, he shows a hell of a lot of emotion. He really shows the human side of Spock even in the first season.

@baxtronicxavier Жыл бұрын

Invasion of the body snatchers

@4KindnessGal 7 ай бұрын

He was on the old Mission Impossible quite a lot. Great thee too.

@neilwilson5785 Жыл бұрын

I like the smooth intelligent way people talked before the Internet came along. Terry Wogan was not even considered to be highbrow at the time.

@MrJellyton 9 ай бұрын

To sit and listen. I fear we're losing that everyday.

@user-gn9vu7wn7t 2 ай бұрын

These people were not only tremendous actors but also very intelligent people. Sad that today we only hear swearing and political correctness and all that cesspool of ideas today.

@harpersmythe658 Жыл бұрын

Two of my favourite people. Terry Wogan was so funny in his interviews and Leonard Nimoy brought life to Mr Spock. R.I.P to both of them 😥😥

@trilliarobinson7862 Жыл бұрын

They really seemed to enjoy talking to each other, both relaxed and having fun

@prte100 Жыл бұрын

Very interesting interview with Leonard Nimoy, 33 years and so glad to hear his thinking and words about his role. Thank you BBC Archive!

@musicauthority7828 Жыл бұрын

Leonard Nimoy has a great laugh. something a person see much with Mr Spock. Mr Spock was my favorite character from Star Trek. I really liked his common sense, and how articulate he was, and logical he was. as I grew up I've tried to model my life after the character. in using common sense and logic, and I think it has made me better at understanding the world around me. although this world can be very illogical at times.

@mr.invisible3123 Жыл бұрын

RIP both gentlemanly persona quality of discussion proves captivating to hear

@danielwilliamson6180 Жыл бұрын

Great interview. Leonard Nimoy was so human.

@markiliff Жыл бұрын

I remember him playing Hamlet on Spitting Image around that time: "To be or not to be? That… is illogical, captain"

@buxycat Жыл бұрын

I remember it as "the question is illogical Captain," with his ears flapping furiously.

@markiliff Жыл бұрын

@@buxycat Just checked the audio ('Spit in your ear' - Track 17). Astonishingly, given that it came out in 1986, I was right! But the ears - yes, defo.

@buxycat Жыл бұрын

@@markiliff Thanks for letting me know :)

@hulahoopone Жыл бұрын

Wasn't there another one on Spitting Image " To be or not to beam me up Scotty"?

@4KindnessGal 7 ай бұрын

I would love to see that. Is “Splitting Image” the name of the show? I would like to try to find it.

@lazyhazeldaisy9596 Жыл бұрын

Both gone now, but never forgotten.❤

@oneness8802 Жыл бұрын

Sad that they have both left us 😢 Omg where has Time Gone. Let's go back !!

@claytonskids6764 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for this👍 I love media info delivered in this way…more please 🤗✨

@jonathaneffemey944 2 ай бұрын

Thanks for posting.

@Paul_1971 Жыл бұрын

Two great interesting engaging guys RIP - why arn't modern personalities anywhere this level of interesting?!

@4KindnessGal 7 ай бұрын

Because modern personalities are what we used to call “trailer trash”. Nothing but trailer trash!

@darinbauer8122 Жыл бұрын

I remember Leonard & on a different occasion George at SFO, back in the day. It was *good* to be a kid in the bay, back in the day. Momma was a stewardess, so we visited fam. Live long & prosper!

@darinbauer8122 Жыл бұрын

@kiers1970 Жыл бұрын

Two wonderfully talented and engaging Carbon Units.. Brilliant. How great would it be to have interviews like this now? Instead we have to endure the interviewer who, by and large has an agenda..and po-faced so called stars.

@Chris-B. Жыл бұрын

Interesting. I never realised The Wrath of Khan was not considered a success, even at the time.

@thebadgamer1967 Жыл бұрын

Home video really put it threw the roof back in the day

@Daracdor Жыл бұрын

I thought Wrath of Khan one of the best of the series

@EyeMixMusic Жыл бұрын

Star Trek 1 and 4 were the biggest hits at the box office. 2 and 3 were both successful, but not at the same level. 2 actually earned more than 3, so Wogan and Nimoy's talk of 3 and 4 being the main blockbusters is a little misleading.

@UncleFeedle Жыл бұрын

Fascinating.

@nicholasjanke3476 Жыл бұрын

His story about meeting the kid in the airport when I was a little kid I was a big Star Trek fan and onetime I was watching a commercial with William Shatner and my family says:"look there he is! That's Captain Kirk!" But I-like the kid in the airport-didnt recognize Shatner without the gold shirt and black pants. I guess kids see things differently than adults.

@michaeldoogan2873 Жыл бұрын

The late, great Leonard Nimoy had a well concealed birth defect hidden to most fans. He actually had 3 ears. A left ear, a right ear and a final front ear.

@4KindnessGal 7 ай бұрын

What in the World does that mean?

@karrZ-mi5km 6 ай бұрын

That is deserving only of an infamous Picard face palm 👋

@pressureworks Жыл бұрын

Why don't we get to see the rest of this interview?????????

@BOZ_11 Жыл бұрын

Because we are thoroughly undeserving

@josefschiltz2192 Жыл бұрын

@@BOZ_11 Intriguing.

@mrgeoffreyspatchcock4825 Жыл бұрын

May the force be with you.

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

He had a singing career with 'The Ballad and Bilbo Baggins' and he was on an episode of Columbo and erm .. let me think now ... let me Google the rest.

@thebadgamer1967 Жыл бұрын

IMDB

@evo5dave Жыл бұрын

Mission Impossible, Invasion of the Bodysnatchers

@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын

@@evo5dave but he always played the same guy in almost all of his small roles. That serious and sinister type. Not really a great actor just someone that got lucky to be in a role that was quite popular. Had it not been for his role as Spock he would have been like some secondary actor on Quincy that no-one recognized years later.

@evo5dave Жыл бұрын

@@davedogge2280 He got typecast. They all did. A blessing and a curse

@mem1701movies Жыл бұрын

@@davedogge2280 but he played Spock so well. Like Scott Bakula...I only buy him as Sam Beckett

@jasonking6892 Жыл бұрын

Met him on a flight in 1987 just jfk / LA Remember him being very scruffy

@cornellwaters8969 Жыл бұрын

💬 Thank you

@petergivenbless900 Жыл бұрын

Alternative title for his biography might have been 'In Search of... Spock'!

@therexbellator Жыл бұрын

Nimoy makes it sound like "Wrath" stumbled but it was a huge hit, maybe not -as- big a hit as TMP but that's because TMP was more of an event than a typical movie. However TWOK was a major success, it was more profitable than TMP, broke records at the box office, and it was a critical success which spawned an entire series of movies. Thankfully they went in a different direction with TWOK because TMP, while an interesting piece of Star Trek history, is just a poorly conceived movie that was, as Nimoy says, trying too hard to imitate Kubrick's 2001.

@dgatsby6495 Жыл бұрын

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@crazyman8472 Жыл бұрын

“Not another one!” Well, considering how “Star Trek V” came out, I’d say the reaction was justified. 😳

@twiff3rino28 Жыл бұрын

VI was one of the best though.

@crazyman8472 Жыл бұрын

@@twiff3rino28 True, true… 🤔

@harrisumar3099 4 ай бұрын

Spock aged a lot herre

@JustWasted3HoursHere 7 ай бұрын

3:51 "Star Trek One did extremely well. Star Trek Two fell off somewhat..." This is surprising to look back on because Star Trek Two: The Wrath of Khan is considered by most Star Trek fans to be the best of the whole franchise!

@ericclaptonsrobotpilot7276 Жыл бұрын

Star Trek 2 fell off! What is he on about‽

@marceastment 4 ай бұрын

It wasn't a success

@keithsproson4328 Жыл бұрын

Terry who, see kids you don't need an IQ to make money

@julianaylor4351 Жыл бұрын

Terry Wogan was one of the UK's best television and radio presenters. He used to be a banker. Don't insult a dead man, just because he was Irish. He was much beloved, a very nice man.

@keithsproson4328 Жыл бұрын

@@julianaylor4351 I never mentioned, Irish ,

@julianaylor4351 Жыл бұрын

@@keithsproson4328 But his accent....????!!!

@keithsproson4328 Жыл бұрын

@@julianaylor4351 😁😁😁😁👍