Blast From The Past - Star Trek edition

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Seen here is Tom Hardy's screen test for Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis, Picard's clone/nemesis. It's interesting just how much better the screen test is to the finished film, at least to me. In the test, you can see this weird vulnerability and simmering tension on the part of Hardy. He knows he has to betray Picard eventually, but he's still desperate for a kind of approval from this guy. In the final film, everything seems more subdued. Patrick Stewart almost seems bored. Yup, just another young adult clone of me that's taken over the Federation's largest enemy, ho-hum.

I hate to lay this at the feet of director Stuart Baird, especially when he went on to do classics such as... uhh, literally nothing. Hunh.