My favourite memory of him is of me, Chris [Pine] and him. We were shooting at the Budweiser plant in LA and we went back to our trailer one night, and Leonard fell asleep, sitting up, in full Spock gear. He’s snoring quietly to himself, and me and Chris are sat there not wanting to make a sound because he’s asleep, just looking at each other like, “there’s Spock… and he’s snoring.” [Laughs] It’s a highlight of my career, to act with a character I have known since I was a child.
Sometimes when I’m down, I remember that scene at a convention when Leonard Nimoy and De Kelley are reading fanfiction to the audience, and they pause at a scene to remember the destroyed Enterprise and place their hands over their hearts
and De does a double-take, skips over to Nimoy, and fixes his hand so it’s on his lower ribcage, where the vulcan heart actually is, and then goes back to his spot and remarks something like “I should know I’m his doctor” and continues on.
