In a heartwarming tribute, Zoe Saldaña honors StarTrek legend Nichelle Nichols and recalls how the late actress helped her play Uhura.
Zoe Saldaña shares how Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols helped her play Uhura. Nichols first introduced the character of Uhura in Star Trek: The Original Series in 1966. The show only ran for 3 seasons before being cancelled in 1969, but despite this, The Original Series led to the creation of the now-massive Star Trek franchise. With 12 TV shows, 13 films, books, games, and comics, Star Trek has an estimated $10.
Nichols' character, Nyota Uhura, appeared in all 3 seasons of The Original Series, as well as six Star Trek films. Her appearance on the show was groundbreaking, as she was one of the few prominent Black characters on television at the time. It wasn't until 2009, 18 years after Nichols' last appearance in the Star Trek franchise, that fans would see Uhura onscreen again.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY Related: Strange New Worlds' Spock & Uhura Just Passed Their Toughest Test In an Instagram post commemorating Nichols, who passed away at age 89 on July 30, Saldaña shares how Nichols helped her play Uhura. Alongside a series of pictures of Nichols, including two of Nichols and Saldaña together, Saldaña writes that Nichols told her to play Uhura"with all the confidence in the world.
With a younger version of Uhura now a major player on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Nichols' legacy as Uhura continues to vibrantly live on. Every actor that has played Uhura since Nichols has praised Nichols for her momentous work on The Original Series, and for how much progress she made for Black women in television and elsewhere.
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