After all these year someone finally asked William Shatner his thoughts on his face being the basis of one of the most famous slasher masks in cinema history.
In a recent YouTube interview he said:
Is that a joke? Are they kidding?
I recognized it as the death mask they had made for me. They made a mask of my face on Star Trek out of clay so I would not have to be available for the prosthetics they would have to put on my face to look old or evil or whatever it was they were making me look like.
So somewhere along the line, someone got that mask and made a mask of it for [the holiday] Halloween.
The story behind the mask being used in the film was revealed in a recent episode of Netflix’s The Movies That Made Us. Production Designer for the film Tommy Lee Wallace went to a Halloween store in Hollywood where he found the Captain Kirk mask. They removed the eyebrows, widen the eye holes, painted it white, and darkened the hair to create the mask that terrified franchise for over 40 years.
