SXSW: William Shatner On His New Documentary, Turning 92, And Blasting Into Space Aboard Blue Origins: “I’m On National Television And I’m Uncontrollably Crying”

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To describe William Shatner, who turns 92 later this month, as “full of life” would be a gross understatement. When Deadline spoke with him about the documentary You Can Call Me Bill, which is making its world premiere at SXSW, he was about to go horseback riding.

At a time when many people his age, those fortunate few to reach their 90s, are getting about with walkers or wheelchairs, he’s hoofing it. “After this interview I’m gonna get on a horse,” he told us, with some astonishment. “I’m not going to get in a wheelchair.

I’m gonna go on a reining horse and practice.” He said he can’t quite believe the term “91-year-old” applies to him. “Every time I hear that figure I think, ‘That’s right.

That’s me. My God,’” he laughed. “I think, how is that possible?” The actor-author-singer (or perhaps “reciter of songs” is the more accurate term) knows the end of his life must be relatively near, given actuarial tables.