《I Am Not Spock 》The title of the book made Nimoy misunderstood

At the airport, a mother excitedly pointed out Leonard Nimoy to her young son, but the child failed to recognize the Star Trek actor.Nimoy later recalled to E! News that the child was looking for Spock, and the Spock standing in front of him did not look like the character.This encounter became the reason why he named his memoirs - I Am Not Spock.

Some readers interpreted the title to mean that Nimoy hated being recognized as Spock and wanted to distance himself from the character.What he worried about was that the audience would only remember Spock and forget Nimoy himself.As he took on more roles and his career gradually developed, his views on their relationship began to change.

In a 1976 interview with Toronto's CHUM-FM radio station, he made the difference between actor and character very clear: As the person who plays Spock, he can certainly say that he is Spock; but when it comes to his true personal identity, he is another person.The expression in the memoir is equally direct: “I love being Spock.But I also like myself.I wanted to be independent of him and be myself.”

By 1989, a KALX-FM interviewer still asked him if he was trying to get rid of Spock.Nimoy first denied the premise of this question: he had never made such an attempt, and the book in the 1970s had been misread.He even said that you could make money betting on it, since the person asking the question probably hadn't read the book.He has always had feelings for the show and Spock, and this role has brought him many opportunities.

Later, he admitted that the title of the book was poorly chosen.For someone who has not opened the book, it is easy to conclude based on the title alone that he does not want to play Spock, or is rejecting the role.That was different from what he intended.

In 1995, Nimoy published I Am Spock.When he talked about the book to the Charlotte Observer, he said that he was very confident in his identity as an actor and could get along with Spock comfortably.He shaped Spock, and Spock also influenced him, especially in his habit of acting logically and thinking logically.