Or damn close.
This was the first real look we got at the Klingons and they were a bit,...silly.
Christopher Lloyd's performance was borderline campy, when it should have been downright scary.
He wasn't around back then, but an actor like Javier Bardem comes to mind.
I loathe 'No Country For Old Men', but that was the intensity level needed for Kruge.
He was a cold-blooded, murdering, SOB.
The read the original choice for Kruge was Edward James Olmos from Blade Runner/BSG who is abit similar acting style to Bardem , idk why they chose Lloyd over him I think I read somewhere CL was bigger, more physically imposing (6ft 1 to EJO 5ft 9) and Nimoy had to vouch for him bc the studio were concerned of typecasting from Taxi , EJO probably wouldve been great and brought a sinister quiet intensity , but Lloyd was fantastic imo
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I also thought that Lloyd was fantastic in this.