If you look at Laurence Fishburne’s filmography, you can’t help but notice an impressive array of sci-fi titles: The Matrix trilogy , of course, but also Predators , Man of Steel , Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer , Ant-Man and the Wasp , The Signal, The Colony , Event Horizon ...
and that’s without mentioning his very latest and upcoming projects, including Transformers One , Slingshot , Megalopolis , and The Astronaut . Sure, he’s also known for drama and is an Oscar nominee, but it’s absolutely clear Fishburne is a huge sci-fi fan—and in a new interview, he traces back just how far his love for the genre goes. Speaking to Variety , Fishburne—who excitedly admits “I love the Transformers” and that “[sci-fi] is one of my favorite genres”—was asked where his sci-fi fandom began.
“It’s very simple: I am a product of my time,” he told the trade. “I was born in 1961 so where do you think I fell in love with sci-fi? I fell in love with sci-fi on the television. There was a little show called Star Trek , and it was the first television show, in America, that had a diverse, and multiracial crew on it, so I could turn on Star Trek and see people that looked like me in space in the future.
” He continued, sharing more Trek love as well as other favorites. “The show had many guest actors, like the great William Marshall, who played Dr. Richard Daystrom.
He was a brilliant scientist who built this amazing, sentient computer. There were so man.