Black History Is Star Trek 🖖🏿 Idris Elba, OBE (born 6 September 1972; age 52) is an actor who played Krall, formerly Balthazar Edison in Star Trek Beyond. memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Idris_E... - ThreadSky

gettheorion.bsky.social • 3 days ago

Black History Is Star Trek 🖖🏿

Idris Elba, OBE (born 6 September 1972; age 52) is an actor who played Krall, formerly Balthazar Edison in Star Trek Beyond.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Idris_Elba

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applescruff909.bsky.social•3 days ago

Underrated film.

gettheorion.bsky.social•3 days ago

I've only seen it all the way through the once. I remember liking everything except the dirt bike scene. Just felt hokey. 🫤

applescruff909.bsky.social•3 days ago

It was the one Kelvin movie that took itself the right amount of seriously, i.e. much less seriously than Into Darkness did.

jonathan.eylerwerve.com•3 days ago

The audacity of casting the world's most attractive human and putting him in a rubber smurf mask. I hope he had a good time.

gettheorion.bsky.social•3 days ago

lol right? A bold move by the studio to cover thar beautiful man making him unrecognizable. I wonder if he had any input into that. Sometimes fans of Trek want the full monster makeup experience. 🤔

jonathan.eylerwerve.com•3 days ago

Reading about this, I think you're right. It sounds like Idris was possibly more into this character than anyone asked him to be https://www.slashfilm.com/541627/idris-elba-star-trek-character-krall/

gettheorion.bsky.social•3 days ago

Aye, nice. I mean, why drop top dollar for one of the hottest leading men in Hollywood just to make them unrecognizable. Production could have spare themselves a lot of money by going with a relatively unknown.

jonathan.eylerwerve.com•3 days ago

Dude does voice acting! Stick a stunt guy in there, and literally phone it in!

gettheorion.bsky.social•3 days ago

Right? But hey, good for Mr Elba getting to live out his Star Trek cosplay dreams. lol 😄

terrylong.bsky.social•3 days ago

Have you seen him play Knuckles? He wrote a seventeen page backstory for a talking echidna who punches things.

kenhayesnh.bsky.social•2 days ago

Awesome Actor!!

gettheorion.bsky.social•2 days ago

He really is. 💚 I love that he's part of the Star Trek family, even if he was covered in all that makeup.

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