If there was one word I can say about being involved with STAR TREK BEYOND, it was secrecy.

From the very beginning, everything was kept very under wraps: you weren’t there for STAR TREK, you were there for a WASHINGTON audition. While we quickly discovered that ‘Washington’ was the code-name for the film – even after every one of us knew – the process was never referred to anything other than auditions for ‘Washington.’

I wasn’t auditioning to join the Enterprise bridge crew, I was there to become an employee at the Oval Office – our group weren’t brought in as a group of “Enterprise officers,” we were “White House workers,” and so on.

From our audition to our wardrobe fittings, everything was kept secret – and if you dared breathe a word of anything seen or heard, you would be released from production… and we know that they weren’t kidding as some people had already been let go for that very reason.