Posted on 05/20/2013 10:59:15 PM PDT by Bender2
Peter Weller on Star Trek, Getting His Ph.D., and Defending J.J. Abrams
by Bilge Ebiri
If you saw Star Trek Into Darkness this weekend and couldn't quite place Peter Weller, the actor playing Starfleet Admiral Marcus, allow us to refresh your memory: Weller starred in two of the biggest cult films of the eighties, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai and RoboCop, as well as in David Cronenberg’s adaptation of William S. Burroughs's The Naked Lunch. He's also had supporting parts on 24, Dexter, Fringe, and House. And if that weren’t enough, the man is currently finishing up a Ph.D. in art history. He talked to us recently about his stint on Star Trek, his diverse career, and his professor's problem with J.J. Abrams.
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Why would your character Admiral Marcus go and revive a madman like Khan, even to use as an ally in a secret war? When you prepare for a part like this, do you think those questions through in your mind?
Absolutely. Think: In the sixties, during the Cold War, most of the United States supported the making of plutonium weapons — and that’s waking up the past, that’s waking up nuclear energy and storing it, which is devastating.
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Not to try and start a brush fire but there are those that advocate legalizing weed. Did her some good didn’t it?
UNT (was NTSU) had some very good looking girls going there. Turned out two Miss Americas (’69 and ‘75) and neither of them were the best looking (albeit they were hotties).
The whole town has changed as well. I remember when the mall was built that was the southern edge of town and there was nothing north of university except the idiot hill area off Sherman Drive. I knew everyone I went to high school with in our big 4A, now they have 4 high schools.
lol...I was wondering if anyone remembered
that was such an odd but borderline cult flick
for it’s day
Believe you are forgetting Phyllis George... 
Miss America 1971.
Not only was she a great gal and a true lady, she was better looking than the law should allow!
We shared classes and activities at NTSU and were both represented by Peggy Taylor Talent back then. In 1971 I was the Talent Coordinator there when she won Miss America.
Creeping Jesus, what a tale.
Some days I think that stupid is cultural, a learned thing. Other days, I think that stupid is genetic.
My bad I got the years wrong. Phyllis George and Shirley Cothran Barrett.
I used Kurtwood because he was weller nemesis in Robocop and played Red Forman in 70’s show and always called the hippies “Dumbasses”...
This seemed apropriate.
Yeah, that's deep, but Penny Priddy wasn't and Ellen Barkin is now barkin' mad.
How things have changes since '84 or '85 when I saw that movie in a a guns allowed Phoenix theater.
These days, when I look at the world around me I hear Lord John Whorfin: "Laugh-a while you can, monkey-boy!"
Laugha while you can, monkeyboy!
I guess that means I can’t love “Robocop” anymore. There’s just nothing left.
If Keanu Reeves is a raging lefty don’t tell me because I’m not giving him up. Nagonnadoit!
I can’t help wondering if naming the character Penny on “Big Bang Theory” is a tip of the hat to Penny Priddy.
Don’t be mean, we don’t have to be mean, cuz remember, no matter where you go, there you are.
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