PLAYING THE SON OF STAR TREK royalty could’ve gone an entirely different way for Ed Speleers. In fact, he could’ve ended up playing another game-changing role altogether.
“Initially I was actually asked to go up for a different part in a different Trek series. I think it was Strange New Worlds,” he recalls, when looking back at his journey to playing Jack Crusher. “I did a tape and nothing came of it. I was a bit disgruntled, if I remember correctly!”
As he was only given certain excerpts of dialogue – known as “sides” – he can’t swear to the role he first auditioned for. But he thinks he might know…
“This would be completely hazarding a guess,” he stipulates. “I’m assuming based on what I’ve seen of that it’s the Kirk character that Paul Wesley played. Maybe I’m backing myself far too much there. But I feel that that’s right, judging by the sides that I had at the time. That
