Check out the new stills of Chris from Horrible Bosses 2 which hits theaters November 26th!

As Captain James T. Kirk in the rebooted big-screen “Star Trek” franchise, Chris Pine has taken up the Shatnerian mantle in two blockbuster films and boldly gone where no one has gone before. In the galaxy that is Hollywood, however, after you’ve played a hero like Kirk, it can be tricky to go anywhere else.

“Once the business sees you in a certain light, they want to capitalize on that,” said Pine, 34. “You have to go out of your way to let people know you’re interested in doing other things.”

With a pair of wildly different — and decidedly un-“Trek”-like — roles in upcoming releases, Pine is letting the world know just that. In the R-rated comedy sequel “Horrible Bosses 2,” opening Nov. 26, he plays Rex, a slick, amoral corporate tool who becomes ensnared by three dimwitted friends (played by Jason Bateman, Jason Sudeikis and Charlie Day) in a horribly botched kidnapping plot. A month later, Pine will costar with Meryl Streep, Anna Kendrick and Johnny Depp in the Dec. 25 adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim fairy-tale fantasy musical “Into the Woods,” playing Cinderella’s Prince.

On the face of it, Pine, who has done few outright comedies, seems an unlikely choice for “Horrible Bosses 2,” which follows the 2011 hit. But when director Sean Anders was co-writing the script, he remembered seeing a then largely unknown Pine on stage in a 2007 production of the darkly comic Neil LaBute play “Fat Pig,” playing a character every bit as coldblooded as Rex.

“Let’s face it: Most for lack of a better word ‘pretty-boy’ actors don’t have the chops that a lot of the comedy guys have,” Anders said. “But every now and then a guy like Alec Baldwin or Jon Hamm comes along. I knew Chris was one of those guys.”

Pine didn’t see Rex as dastardly so much as damaged. “What interested me about him was that he wasn’t just a bad guy for bad guy’s sake,” Pine said. “He was a kid who wanted his dad [played by Christoph Waltz] to love him, but he continually kicked him to the curb and created this sociopath.”

“Into the Woods” is an equally surprising pick for the actor. The extent of his singing background? “In high school, I once sang ‘Let’s Get It On’ and ‘Brown Sugar’ with a band that included my English teacher and my math teacher,” said Pine.

The industry might want to put him in the action-oriented leading man box, but Pine is clearly just as happy, if not happier, exploring more unexpected corners, even if that means his name isn’t always at the top of the call sheet.

“Sometimes it’s nice not to have to do the heavy lifting,” he said. When it comes to his career, he added, “I kind of take it as it comes.”

Even a Starship captain takes his hand off the wheel once in a while.

Source: latimes.com

Thanks to my good friend Claudia I’ve added high quality scans of Chris from the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine from their holiday movie preview issue. Check em out:

Cinderella’s Prince (Chris Pine)
Pay close attention to Pine’s perfect hair as his prince careens through the woods. ”I sat in the makeup chair, and we started playing around with hairstyles,” said the actor. ”I said, ‘What if he had this weird Elvis pompadour, always coiffed and absurdly too big?”’ He continues, ”There’s something laughable about him. He’s very gallant, but you just want him to also be, like, a douche.’

Source: ew.com

Chris is featured on the cover of newest issue of Entertainment Weekly for their special holiday movie preview issue which includes four exclusive covers of the cast of Disney’s Into The Woods! Chris is pictured alongside Anna Kendrick who plays the Cinderella to his Prince Charming in the film.

You can purchase the issue here in digital format or print!

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Horrible Bosses 2 lands in theaters on November 26th!

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