spreading the George Takei loff

[bronze_ribbons]

"When I first met [Masi Oka], we started briefly chatting and I was commenting on how interesting it is that we are going to be working in Japanese," said Takei. "We talked about languages and I discovered that he speaks Spanish, and so do I. I was born in East LA. and I grew up hearing the language around me. I love the language, so I studied it in junior high school and high school. My minor in college was Latin-American studies, which included the language, of course. So we started conversing in Spanish. It blew the minds of all the people around us. We're two characters that are going to be playing people of Japan—our dialog is all in Japanese. Here we are off the set chatting in Spanish."

[His answer to Tim Hardaway (via Jimmy Kimmel's show) has been getting major play in my friends-loops.]