Polygon.com / 24.06.25

Even Shazad Latif found his Star Trek: Discovery story hard to track

Actor Shazad Latif has a long history of playing characters at war with themselves. He portrayed the most archetypal example of internal conflict, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, on Penny Dreadful; a Klingon sleeper agent on Star Trek: Discovery; and will soon be playing an Indian Prince who takes the name Nemo as he embarks on a quest for vengeance in Nautilus, a reimagining of Jules Vernes Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea premiering on AMC and AMC Plus on June 29. Maybe its because I had a traumatic childhood, Latif told Polygon over Zoom with a laugh. I think its easy for me to mirror. Im half English-Scottish, half Pakistani. Ive always sort of been on the peripherals in both worlds, but also very much involved in them. That feeling of being an outsider always lets me connect to these kinds of characters that have a dual feeling about them. They always seem to be fairly angry, [and] my dad was very angry, so I can tap into that. While the emotions may come easy, keeping track of the ...
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