Paul Giamatti ("Sideways," "John Adams") and Holly Hunter ("Raising Arizona," "The Piano") — two of the most acclaimed and award-winning actors of our generation — may seem like unlikely choices to be streaking across the final frontier in the 32nd century, but their roles in Paramount+'s new "Star Trek: Starfleet Academy" offered myriad challenges and rewards for the esteemed Hollywood pair.
To find their "Starfleet Academy" characters' pulse, Giamatti’s Klingon/Tellarite space pirate Nus Braka and Hunter's USS Athena captain and Starfleet Academy chancellor, they both fearlessly plunged into the parts with unbridled enthusiasm.
