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You Won’t Believe What Happened to William Shatner After ‘Star Trek’ Got Cancelled · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest. William Shatner is still
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  Speaker 1: hard at work at ninety two years old, and he's
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  Speaker 1: been a recognizable face since his breakout It's Captain Kirk
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  Speaker 1: on the original Star Trek in the nineteen sixties. And
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  Speaker 1: you might think that Star Trek put him in a
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  Speaker 1: position to never really worry about money or work again,
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  Speaker 1: but he tells the Hollywood Reporter that was hardly the case.
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  Speaker 1: It's easy to forget. Star Trek only aired three seasons
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  Speaker 1: from nineteen sixty six to sixty nine before being canceled,
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  Speaker 1: and its true cult status took years to be cemented.
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  Speaker 1: He says, after it ended, I was broke, living in
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  Speaker 1: a truck, sleeping in the back and trying to save
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  Speaker 1: any money so I could support my three kids and
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  Speaker 1: my ex. But I never gave up on acting. I
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  Speaker 1: never thought, oh, I've got to become a salesman. It
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  Speaker 1: never occurred to me to do anything else. Williams managed
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  Speaker 1: to stay afloat being cast here and there for several years,
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  Speaker 1: but his big rebound came in nineteen seventy nine thanks
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  Speaker 1: to another sci fi franchise, Star Wars. Its success compelled
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  Speaker 1: Paramount to relaunch Star Trek at the first of many
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  Speaker 1: movies in the franchise. Shatner Man he never looked back. Yes,
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