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George Takei: ‘Getting cast as Lt Sulu in Star Trek was life-changing’ – The Guardian

The actor and activist tells Nick McGrath about being locked up aged five, his passion for performance and coming out because of Arnold Schwarzenegger

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My father was an Anglophile. He was a San Franciscan, but he loved all things English. He adored all the kings and queens and Im named after the stuttering King George VI.
Getting cast as Lt Hikaru Sulu in Star Trek was life changing. The shows creator, Gene Roddenberry, told me the idea was a metaphor for the fact that the earths strength lay in its diversity; people from all over the world, working out their problems and being a team and boldly going where no one had gone before.
I was impri…

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