Billionaire Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is a 'Star Trek Beyond' alien
When you run one of the biggest businesses on the planet, making a dream come true can be as easy as asking for it.
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos appears listed in the credits for Paramount Pictures' July 22 sequel, Star Trek Beyond. That's because the longtime Trek fan landed himself a cameo in the series latest installment, as director Justin Lin confirmed on Friday.
"He was awesome," Lin told a group of reporters (via the Associated Press). "It was like a president was visiting, you know? He had a big entourage! But it didn't matter because he was so into it. He had to wait around all day because it was one day we were shooting like three different scenes and, it was also credit to Jeff because ... he just nailed it every time."
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Bezos plays an alien, appearing in one of the movie's tracking shots. There aren't publicly available photos of him from the set, so there's a good chance he'll be unrecognizable.
Especially since he wasn't immediately recognizable even when he was on set.
"I was there for the bit with his like nine bodyguards and three limos. It was really intense," said Chris Pine, who returns in Beyond as Capt. James T. Kirk. "I had no idea who he was. Not a clue. But he was obviously very important."
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