Chris Pine Talks Masculinity, Zachary Qunito & More in Out Magazine June/July 2013

Chris Pine Covers Out Magazine June/July 2013

Star Trek star Chris Pine serves as the cover-boy for the June/July 2013 issue of Out Magazine , which is currently available to for purchase.

Inside his cover story entitled “Hero Complex,” the actor speaks on a various array of topics such as masculinity, his first gay role, Captain Kirk, past roles and much more.

Take a look at a few excerpts from his interview with Shana Naomi Krochmal and then take a look at a few of his photos from his Nino Muñoz -directed shoot below:

On his first gay role:

“My first intimate scene [onscreen] was with Tom Everett Scott. He’s an incredible spooner — very warm, very sensitive.”

On what really makes him stand out:

“I certainly don’t want to take away from what I hope is talent [either]. You just hold on as desperate as you to who you are, and show faults and flaws. I think audiences really respond to humanity- and by that I mean all the great things and all the really shitty things. The more vulnerability you can show, the more flaws you can truthfully inhabit – that’s what I think is responsive for grabbing a person’s interest.”

On his reaction to co-star Zachary Quinto coming out:

“It was something that I knew about Zach from the moment I met him. It was just who Zach was and that’s that. I’m sensitive, and I don’t ever want to make anyone feel uncomfortable. Knowing that for Zach it was more about a career thing and that he was not comfortable at the time coming out — it was fine. It was something that we kind of tiptoed around and I just took it as a given, because that’s what he wanted.”

On Captain Kirk and Spock’s relationship:

“I always thought about it more like it was the dialectic of a human being. One couldn’t be more logic and reason — that’s his genetic coding. And the other is more impulsive, following his passion, his fists. That was how it was a functional relationship. You have Spock as the cold reason, you had the passion of Jim Kirk, and then you had the ironic sarcasm of McCoy, which gave the whole thing levity. That dynamic was beautiful.”

On masculinity in films:

“I think there is a growing homogenization of what masculinity means. In the late ’60s and early ’70s, you had John Cazale, you had Pacino, DeNiro, Hoffman, Voight, Elliott Gould. Look at Gene Hackman. Look at all those pictures on a wall; they could not be any more different from one another, and they were all major stars. They could not have been more different in terms of aesthetic, in terms of energy, talent — all of it. And now…”

If you are interested in reading more from the interview, which I suggest, due to it being very interesting, you can click here !

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