answers: Christopher Whitelaw Pine
context: the actor who originated the role of Captain Kirk more than forty years earlier, William Shatner, for the feature length documentary "The Captains", which Shatner wrote and directed. The film sees Shatner interview Pine about his career and how it felt to take the role of Kirk for the 2009 movie. Their interview features a scene where the pair arm wrestles; pictures of this incident "went viral" leading to Internet headlines such as "Kirk v. Kirk" and others. Pine filmed the romantic comedy "This Means War", with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy, during the fall of 2010, in Vancouver. "This </s> William Shatner in the original Star Trek television series. The velour tunic sold in Profiles In History's Hollywood Auction 49 as Lot. 909 for $98,400 (including a 23% buyers premium), making it the most expensive Shatner costume sold at auction to date. James Cawley James Cawley (born June 23, 1967) is an American executive film producer and actor, known for his assumption of the role of Captain James T. Kirk in the fan film series "". A big "" fan growing up, in 1997 Cawley began collecting props and costumes from the original series and acquired the original "Enterprise" blueprints </s> along with director Joss Whedon, released a video urging people to vote in the upcoming elections. While the video was a parody of Congress in general, certain commentators took the video to represent the Republican Congress. Chris Pine Christopher Whitelaw Pine (born August 26, 1980) is an American actor. Pine made his feature debut as Lord Devereaux in "" (2004). He is known for playing James T. Kirk in the "Star Trek" reboot film series (2009–2016), Will in "Unstoppable" (2010), Cinderella's Prince in "Into the Woods" (2014), Jack Ryan in "" (2014), Toby Howard in "Hell or High Water" (2016),
question: who plays captain kirk in star trek 2013