Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner (Picture by Mark Davis/Getty Photos)
Adam Nimoy, the son of the late Star Trek icon Leonard Nimoy, is aware of the actual purpose behind his father and costar William Shatner’s storied feud — however he isn’t giving any secrets and techniques away.
“I do know why,” Adam informed Web page Six on Sunday, June 2. Nevertheless, he added that he’s going to “let sleeping canine lie” in terms of the topic. (Nimoy handed away in 2015 on the age of 83.)
“It’s unlucky, it’s unhappy,” he stated, calling his father’s relationship with Shatner, 93, who performed Captain Kirk in Star Trek: The Unique Sequence reverse Leonard’s Spock, “very difficult.” Nevertheless, Adam confessed that there was a cut-off date when the 2 males “had been actually lovely collectively.” (Star Trek’s authentic run aired for 3 seasons between 1966 and 1969.)
Adam recalled that rising up he and his sister Julie Nimoy would hear tales of Leonard and Shatner clashing with one another on set. It was for that reason that the siblings had been shocked when Leonard referred to Shatner in his memoir as his “greatest good friend.”
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“Julie and I had been scratching our heads like … you’ve knocked heads with Invoice, all of your skilled life,” Adam stated. “And now they’d some reconciliation and it was lovely, nevertheless it simply didn’t, they only couldn’t maintain it. And that’s unlucky.”
Adam is aware of a factor or two about strained relationships with Leonard. Nimoy’s son has written a whole e book about his relationship along with his estranged father and the way they had been in a position to reconcile earlier than the actor’s demise in 2015. The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father is out this month by way of Chicago Evaluate Press.
Shatner pleads ignorance of the explanation behind his and Leonard’s feud. Nevertheless, he revealed in his 2016 e book, Leonard: My Fifty-12 months Friendship with a Exceptional Man, that Leonard had stopped speaking to Shatner completely within the final 5 years of his life.
“I believed he was joking at first and handled it as a joke as a result of he generally would faux and say, ‘No, I’m not going to try this’ after which say, ‘Sure,’ in order that’s what I believed he did,” Shatner informed The Hollywood Reporter in 2016. “However that point he actually meant, no. … I simply don’t know, and it’s unhappy and it’s everlasting. I don’t know why he stopped speaking to me.”
When requested in regards to the battle of egos between himself and Leonard on the Star Trek set, Shatner informed THR, “Nothing is ever one individual’s fault — one hand clapping doesn’t make a sound.”
Leonard was not the one Star Trek alum who had issues with Shatner. George Takei, who performed Lieutenant Sulu on that authentic run referred to as Shatner a “cantankerous previous man” as lately as November 2022 in an interview with Individuals. In the identical interview, Takei, 85, described Shatner as “self-involved” and stated he “loved being the focal point” on the Star Trek set.
