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Joy Reid: "If you could just share your memories. It was really a shock to hear of Leonard Nimoy's passing today. If you could please share your thoughts."
George Takei: "Well, I'm here in Boston at Logan Airport and it seems ironic that I should learn of his passing here in his home town, his birthplace.
Leonard was beloved by millions of fans all over this planet. So that makes it a very special experience for us who got to work with him as actors. He was a brilliant actor. But he also believed in working collaboratively. He would analyze a scene and knew the importance of every character in making that scene work. He was a gifted analyst of the scene. And I think that helped him be a good director. Because he knew all of us personally, he knew how to communicate with us in shorthand and give us our free reign and he reigned us in when he felt it was a little too much or not enough. But he had this remarkable ability and he was very supportive of all of us. And I remember, he did 'Equus' on Broadway and I did the same role in a smaller theater in LA and he came to see me in it and knowing that he had played that same role brilliantly on Broadway, and when he came backstage I left smiling and I asked him 'Well, how did I do, Leonard?' And he smiled and said "You were better." Obviously, that wasn't true. But when I did the musical (can't understand the name of the musical here) in San Diego Theater, he drove all the way down to San Diego to give me a congratulatory hug. He was a dear, dear friend and a very supportive colleague. We're all going to miss him dearly.
He had that Vulcan greeting, 'Live long and prosper' and he will indeed live long, with all of us, and his memory will prosper."
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