Revisiting George Takei on Activism and 'To Be Takei'
The Business
KCRW
4.6 • 676 Ratings
🗓️ 23 May 2015
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Best known for his role at Lieutenant Sulu on Star Trek, George Takei is now the subject of the documentary, To Be Takei. The actor and activist talks about the chaos behind the first Star Trek movie and why William Shatner is like the crazy uncle of the Star Trek family.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Kim Masters. Thanks for listening to The Business. Some of the most entertaining stories produced today aren't just on the big screen. They can be heard on KCRW's Un fictional. Intimate Tales and Artful Documentaries crafted by some of the most talented radio producers across the globe. Check it out. You can find unfictional on KCRW's iTunes page. |
| 0:21.9 | From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Kim Masters, and this is the business. |
| 0:28.4 | You have that eccentric crazy uncle that shows up at reunions or Thanksgiving dinners, |
| 0:35.2 | and there's Bill Shatner, our crazy eccentric uncle. |
| 0:40.6 | Today for this holiday weekend, we're revisiting a conversation with Star Trek's Mr. Sulu, |
| 0:45.8 | George Takeda, who recalls behind the scenes madness on the original Star Trek movie |
| 0:50.7 | and explains why a very reluctant William Shatner nonetheless appears in the documentary |
| 0:56.5 | to be to K. But first on an all-new news banter, one of the biggest stories at Cannes is |
| 1:02.8 | what to wear, and Sumner Redstone's 92nd birthday approaches amid much intrigue about his media |
| 1:09.7 | empire. Stay tuned. It's the business from KCRW. |
| 1:19.2 | I am joined by my fellow banterer, Matt Bellany of the Hollywood reporter. |
| 1:22.9 | Hello, Matt. Hi there. So, Matt, you are back from Cann. You know, it seems like a lot of interesting films. |
| 1:28.7 | Nothing where the world stopped rotating and everybody who jumped up at the same time and applauded for 20 minutes. |
| 1:35.2 | No, I don't think that we saw an Oscar Best Picture winner emerge from the Cannes Film Festival. |
| 1:41.8 | There was a lot of talk about particular performances. |
| 1:45.1 | People like Kate Blanchett in that film Carol, the lesbian romance movie. But nothing that screamed, |
| 1:51.0 | you know, this is an instant Oscar contender. Yeah, every time I read that something even got |
| 1:55.2 | a standing ovation, and five minutes later I would read that critics were also booing at the same |
| 1:59.5 | time, so it doesn't seem like |
| 2:00.9 | consensus was reached. There were a lot of deals, though. I mean, there was a $20 million deal |
| 2:05.5 | for Tom Ford's next movie, and that went to focus for the worldwide rights to that, and it's not |
| 2:10.6 | even made yet. There was a big pick up the Matthew McConaughey movie, Sea of Trees, went to Lionsgate, |
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