Paul Giamatti recently opened up about his shocking inclusion in the latest version Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.
For those who don’t know, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, that’s the 12th Star Trek series, was released on January 15, 2026 on Paramount+.
In conversation with PEOPLE magazine Giamatti, who spoke out about his dream of playing a Klingon Star Trek, a role he had wanted to play since childhood, said, “I actually didn’t think I would ever actually get a phone call!”
He added: “I made no secret of the fact that I loved the show, but I never thought it would actually be something that would happen… It’s a top experience for me.”
“I don’t know if anything else can top this. I still can’t believe I have to do this,” the 58-year-old American actor joked.
Particularly Giamatti’s roles in films like The Holdovers, Sideways, 12 Years a Slave and television programs such as Black Mirror, Billions, Downton Abbey, And John Adams have earned him several awards.
He confessed that he thinks his portrayal of half-Klingon pirate Nus Brake will be well liked Star Trek: Starfleet Academy also deserves an award.
“I don’t see it as some kind of distinction between high or low culture or anything like that – it’s all the same. I love it, Star Trek: it’s smart, it’s good stuff and it’s good writing and it’s good storytelling, and that’s all that matters,” Paul Giamatti explained.
