And it went like this: he got up and he started walking over, and then at some point, as he was walking he looks up and he sees Leonard Nimoy and goes – and JJ’s never lost for words, ever – but I literally clocked the moment he looked up and realized, ‘Holy shit, I’m about to give direction to Spock.’
At the end of the first take, J.J. got up and went to go and give Leonard Nimoy direction on how to play Spock.
And I asked him about it, he goes, ‘Yeah, I freaked out.
I got halfway over there and thought, ‘Oh my God, what can I tell this guy about playing this character that he doesn’t already know?’.