Yoli: Story of the weekend
At the Karl Urban panel he was asked
about pranks on the Start Trek set (considering the infamous Neutron
Cream from Into the Darkness.)
The big one this time wasn’t so
much as a prank, as a stunt gone wrong. Karl had been down in LA doing
something for a couple of weeks for the film. When he got back to
Vancouver Simon Pegg and Chris Pine pounced on him about not responding
to the Dub Smash videos they had sent him.
Apparently the boys had been dub-smashing left and right and sending it through to Karl and expecting him to return the joke.
Karl said he had no idea what they were talking about. Pegg argued he
was taking the piss, but then it suddenly started to dawn on Mssrs Pine
and Pegg that Karl REALLY didn’t know what they were talking about.
“Pegg went white and asked what my number was”
Karl said, what do you think it is? Pegg replied, the number you had
when we did Into the Darkness. OH says Karl, you mean the phone they
gave me just for the duration of the shoot?
Now Simon went VERY
VERY white… because… when they were larking about doing the
dub-smash, they had been wearing their costumes… their very closely
guarded SECRET costumes… And now some random has just gotten hold of
the main cast of Star Trek dancing around like fools in them…
They had to tell the producers… who were not impressed.
They apparently did track the guy down and begged him to delete the offending texts.
I am assuming that whomever it was probably was involved in the film
industry (ie it was a ‘company phone) and had done the right thing and
just sat on it because we hasn’t seen any leaked images as far as I am
aware.
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