Alice Eve talks ‘Star Trek Into Darkness,’ playing Carol Marcus and working with Simon Pegg

One of the biggest films of 2013 certainly will be “Star Trek Into Darkness” and few details were even made available before the recent trailer release. Alice Eve plays Carol Marcus, a character famous in the Trek canon.

During an interview with Empire on Thursday, Eve talks about Carol Marcus and the relationship with Kirk in “Into Darkness.”

“A lot of us in the film, especially Spock and Bones, serve as Kirk’s alter egos of logic and morality, but I do think in this film, after winning the captaincy in the previous movie, we see him earn it… spiritually, really, and sort of philosophically. Other ways than the practical earning of it.”

Eve talked about the challlenge to please the Trek fanatics.

“I see fan bases as a gift, really. A wonderful thing to be able to engage with, because as actors you want to show your work… Hopefully they like it, of course, but you definitely can’t please everyone all of the time.”

Simon Pegg as Scotty became topic of discussion and Eve offer praise for the “Shaun of the Dead.”

“A legend, I’d say. I did a film with him called Big Nothing before Star Trek Into Darkness, at a time when he wasn’t on such a healthy regime, and he used to do this joke before a take. What he’d do is wait for the camera guys to get ready, then stuff a whole Mars bar into this mouth, eat the whole Mars bar, swallow it, and then hear ‘Action!’ and be ready to go. And you can never get through a scene with a man who’s just inhaled a Mars bar three seconds before the camera’s started rolling, it’s just… amazing. He’s so much fun.”

Check out the full interview over at Empire Magazine here

The film also stars Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana, Simon Pegg, Karl Urban, Anton Yelchin, John Cho, Benedict Cumberbatch and Bruce Greenwood. 

Star Trek Into Darkness opens on May 17th