“Who is this man in white? He is the Chang Ming Sword Immortal, Rong Xu An’s Master. It’s said that he’s the only one in the world who has completely mastered the Combined Six Cultivation Method to a perfect level.”
Huang You Ming As Ye Bai Yi + Li Dai Kun As Xie Wang.
WORD OF HONOR (2021) - Episode 32.
Anson Mount on how he recorded his Captain Pike voiceover for the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds opening credits sequence, and then told William Shatner about it → Dragon Con, September 2 2022
Strange New Worlds panel with Anson Mount, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush and Star Trek: Voyager's Garrett Wang acting as their host.
FAN: As a Trekkie, what was your reaction when you found out you got to do the voiceover at the beginning of the episodes?
ANSON MOUNT: It was my number one question I had for Akiva [Goldsman, showrunner] when we started shooting. And he was like, "Yes, we're gonna do it." I was like, "YES, YES, YES! YESSSS!" *laughs* But then we didn't record it until the end of the season. The whole season I was like, you know, when you find yourself in your head all the time, going, "Okay. Space. No, no, no. SPACE. SPACE. *in a high-pitched voice* Space?"
And then we recorded the temp track for it on this set. Everybody was going home, so I didn't have time to worry about it. I was just like, "Do it." Because it was just a temp track, we wanted to do it for real and we were still recording under Covid, so a couple months after we finished shooting, for a while they were sending us these self-contained boxes that were your recording studio, and the technical team that made the box were in New York, and you'd be on the line with them, and with LA (post production). I have a sound booth in my basement, so I had this thing in my basement.
We were really taking our time with the speech, doing it a bunch of different times. Taking one sentence and putting it here, and another sentence and putting it there. "Ok, now let's go back and do the rest of the ADR, and then we'll come back at the end and listen to it. See what we've got." We really wanted to get it right.
We're in the middle of that and there's a pause while they're stitching some things together and I say, "Guys, can we just take a moment here?" And this is in October of last year [2021]. And I say, "Can we just take a moment to realize we're gonna remember this moment for the rest of our lives?"
Source: Full panel video by ashwar007 (question starts at 21:43)
+ Clip of Shatner in space
"Look, everyone. The food Venice had is not like the rest of Italy. We had mostly rice and polenta instead of pasta, and our proteins were often seafood. I only started cooking the other regional foods because it was requested by the others of the Crew whenever they wanted something that isn’t Spanish/Catalan, Caribbean, Arabian, French/Sephardic, or Chinese.
"That, and I frankly really, really, really hate polenta."
"What's wrong with polenta?"
"Because it was all that I was given to eat. For ten. Long. Years."
"Huh? No way you were given just that, you were-
".............."
"Locked in a cellar for ten years trying not to drown in the acqua alta, NEVERMIND FORGET I ASKED, WE WILL ONLY ASK FOR THE NICE STUFF THAT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH VENICE, I’M SO SO SORRY GIOOOO!!"