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William Shatner’s Next ‘Bold’ Adventure: Facing Death

The 93-year-old ‘Star Trek’ icon talks with Obsessed about his new documentary, his legacy, and his mortality: “I haven’t got that long.”

Shatner narrated the famous line during each episode’s opening credits, indelibly tying his voice not just to pop-culture iconography, but to an ethos that has inspired generations of fans. You Can Call Me Bill features Shatner recalling that experience going where, truly, few men have gone: his 2021 spaceflight where, at age 90, he became the oldest human to fly into space. But these are plot details, bullet points onto which he colors his most intense thoughts about mortality—musings that are almost brutal in their bluntness, yet also refreshingly sage in their honesty about what it means to have lived a life.

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