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Zachary Quinto's fingers glued together for Mr Spock's salute
Topic Started: May 12 2009, 05:30 AM (301 Views)
XNavyGunner
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IT IS probably the most famous greeting in the universe.

But the simple Vulcan salute left makers of the new Star Trek film with a galactic-sized headache - because Mr Spock just couldn't do it.

After much head-scratching, experts on the $150 million blockbuster - which boasts stunning high-tech effects - hit upon a low-tech but logical solution - gluing actor Zachary Quinto's fingers together, The Mail on Sunday newspaper in the UK reports.

Quinto, 31, admitted he found it impossible to form his fingers into the distinctive V-shaped gesture, saying: "It's much harder than it looks. Seriously."

One on-set insider said: "Zach could do the salute some of the time but only after he'd positioned his fingers the right way off-camera.

"In some scenes he has to do the salute while speaking his lines so they ended up using skin-protective superglue, like they use in hospitals, to stick his fingers together."

William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the long-running TV show and the first seven Star Trek films, was also unable to do the salute, so he used fishing line to tie his fingers together.

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Sorry, Maxie.
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You'd have thought that would have been a casting pre-requisite....

ACTORS UNABLE TO DO VULCAN SALUTE NEED NOT APPLY!
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Christ I can do it and I have hooves!
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*shakes head sadly* Were they out of their Vulcan minds?
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They should have asked Spocks advice...he'd have said "That is not logical...."
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Oh who cares he's CUTE!! :lmao:
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i would have thought pretty much everybody could do that.....i suppose it's like bein able to "fold/roll" your tongue :speechless:
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