Zachary Quinto:Im Red Bulled u-u-up!

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Chris Pine:Oh fuck.

Youre on another Red Bull?

Sofia Boutella:Maybe thats what I need.

ZQ:It works like nothing else.

I never drink it except on junkets.

And also, sometimes other times.

But not on the Enterprise.

ZQ:When Im doing a play.

Ill drink it then.

ZQ:So how are you?

Congratulations on the film.

ZQ:Did you?

I thought that was an interesting way of jumping back in.

CP:Yeah, I really enjoyed that part of the film.

I thought it was one of the funnier bits.

With these big action films, people never take into account the times that arent dramatic.

That was indeed a funny way to start.

-Ive been told theres a scene cut out where [Kirk] has a breakfast burrito.

I lobbied for the breakfast burrito moment, but it did not win out.

I thought that wouldve been really funny.

Your characters have evolved quite a lot from the young Star Fleet recruits of the first film.

Did you have a say in the tone of your characters in this movie?

So it was fun.

It was a great collaboration.

Do you think its more of an ensemble piece, this movie?

Because for you, Sofia, theres obviously loads of action for you.

SB:Yeah, loads of action!

ZQ:I think what this does is it takes the crew and it fractures us.

It splits us apart and it splits us into groupings that we wouldnt normally be in.

Certainly, in the case of Spock and Bones, who spend a lot of the film together.

Sulu and Uhura spend a lot of time together in the movie.

Kirk and Chekov and Scottie, and then Jaella added into the mix.

One of the themes in the film seems to be inclusivity.

About the Federation bringing different races and cultures together.

Do you think thats an important thing to express right now?

ZQ:I do, yeah.

The other is less tolerant and more judgemental and more fear-driven and fear-based.

[To Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto] Is that something you guys picked up in this?

CP:Uh, yeah.

I like this film because theres a simplicity to the theme.

Its essentially the question that it asks is, Is the Federation good?

Not to be super reductive about, thats what it feels like its about, to me.

No one can survive on their own.

To think you could do it alone is just ridiculous.

SB:Aliens can!

Well, your character starts off alone, but becomes part of a family, so to speak.

SB:Yeah, its the same thing.

But I think she found things within the ship that kept her going.

She watched a lot of videos, and thats how she learned the [English] language.

She kept busy by putting her outfit together, and finding pieces to build her defences and surviving.

Yeah, shes a really fun character.

Its the 50th anniversary of Star Trek.

Roddenberrys TV series had the utopian sense that in time well become less warlike, more peaceful.

That was back in the 60s.

So in the 21st century, are we moving in the right direction?

ZQ:The advancement of technology has probably guided us more than anything else in one direction or another.

I dont know, its hard to say.

Were so much more connected, but weve never been more fractured as a culture.

Were going to be up against challenges that we can barely fathom at this point.

Were teetering on the edge, I would say.

CP:I dont know.

I think about Reagans idea of the shining city on the hill.

ZQ:[Does uncanny Ronald Reagan impression]The shining city on the hill!

I think the human race has always been pretty fucking abysmal to one another.

Weve always killed one another, tried to destroy each other.

So maybe in the human… Maybe that is our collective struggle, is to find a way to get there.

Revenge policy; If you hit me, well hit you back worse; ad infinitum.

SB:What they said!

Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Sofia Boutella thank you very much.

Star Trek Beyondis out in UK cinemas on the 22nd July.