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department 31 stars Omari Hardwick & Kacey Rohl spoke with Bleeding Cool about Star Trek prep , stunt , and building on Rachel Garrett ’s bequest .
WhileOmari Hardwickhas a clean slate as one of the new character ofStar Trek : Section 31as Alok Sahar , Kacey Rohlhas the project of building on the bequest of a character introduced 35 year ago in Rachel Garrett , the ill - fated captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise - C in theStar Trek : The Next Generationseason three episode " Yesterday ’s go-ahead . " As part of the newStar Trek : Discoveryspinoff film , Rohl plays a younger embodiment of the character as a lieutenant still trying to prove her worth in Starfleet ’s secret constitution . Alok leads his group that includes Rachel , Quasi ( Sam Richardson ) , a shapeshifting Chameloid ; Zeph ( Robert Kazinsky ) , the mech - wearing sinew ; Fuzz ( Sven Ruygrok ) , a Romulan / Vulcan wildcard ; and Melle ( Humberly González ) , a Deltan with inborn empathic abilities . They seek out former Terran Emperor Philippa Georgiou ( Michelle Yeoh ) as they seek to neutralize a unexampled threat that risk upending the Galax urceolata . Hardwick and Rohl speak to Bleeding Cool about whether directorOlatunde Osunsanmihad them prep any textile before filming , how Rohl is bear the torch as Rachel , and stunt work .
Star Trek: Section 31 Stars Omari Hardwick & Kacey Rohl on How ‘Mission: Impossible’ and ‘Crimson Tide’ Prepared Them for Their Roles
Bleeding Cool : Was there any required viewing or register that Olatunde had you guys do before skip into filming ?
Hardwick : you could take that one , Kacey .
Rohl : Yeah , there was a little snatch of homework . severally , not asked by Olatunde , I view all of ' Discovery ' to see everything Michelle did . Also , it ’s just a fabulous show , then there were a couple of things that Olatunde want us to watch out . One was ' Mission : Impossible , ' I watched all of them in a row , which was so much merriment . I extremely recommend it . There was another one was ' Crimson Tide ' ( 1995 )
Hardwick : ' Crimson Tide ' shout out to Denzel Washington and Gene Hackman , especially for our character reference to your enquiry about Kacey and me being in a commanding role and trying to do the policing of not only ' incision 31 , ' but for the celluloid . Olatunde did his job well by maneuver us in the correct direction for homework .
Kacey , like Rachel , originated from Tricia O’Neil ’s iteration of Star Trek : The Next genesis . Did you seem at her episode , ' Yesterday ’s endeavor , ' or did you want to do a sweet take of your own ?
Rohl : No , I ’ve seen that sequence [ spill the beans a strain ] so many times . Yeah , lucky me ! Tricia O’Neil did an incredible job with the original iteration of Rachel Garrett . Those were big iron boot to fill , and I want to honor them . I do n’t take lightly what she means to the whole canon . I perfectly watched that episode many times and also brought my own humanity to Rachel at this point . Obviously , I ’m the younger edition of her early on in her journey . I ’m a lieutenant at this point . In ' Yesterday ’s endeavor , ' she ’s a captain , obviously . I got to work with a peck of colour and establish a lot of ejaculate that ended up flowering to ' Yesterday ’s Enterprise , ' but I watched the episode .
Can you talk about the stories just recoil off the mold with the ensemble work ? Was it more difficult doing the stunts or incorporate the technobabble ?
Hardwick : Really great interrogation ; we had an unbelievable stunt coordinator .
Rohl : Yeah , Chris McGuire .
Hardwick : What Chris was able to do early that help everything was the stunt choreography and coordination . It was a dry run within a rehearsal . Your eubstance was able to get promiscuous before we start days one , two , three to week one of oeuvre where jargon is coming out where we ’re verbalizing , moving , and finding blocking . Any time you’re able to be strong-arm , the earlier , the better . He did such a tremendous job with his team , include our stunt doubles and the other stunt coordinators . component part of Chris ’s team made it where the technicality to your stop in interrogative sentence , where things were a lot gentle to descend by once we got to him because so much of the movie is crusade and action . We did a lot of workplace in that space . You , not as much , right ?
Rohl : Not as much , but what I love about watching these guys do all the rehearsal and then how it ended up come into the movie with Chris ’s brilliant choreography and how it inform the story , which I so appreciate , right ? It is n’t vex him up for exhaust him up ’s sake .
Hardwick : He reserve for coaction .
Rohl : It felt inform , like an extension of the other oeuvre , which is always cool to see .
HardwickNobody ’s asked us about the stunt oeuvre in the way that you did , so I apprize that .
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