{"id":4065,"date":"2014-03-12T02:12:44","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=4065"},"modified":"2014-03-12T02:12:44","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T09:12:44","slug":"star-trek-actor-chris-pine-charged-in-new-zealand-with-drunken-driving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/03\/12\/star-trek-actor-chris-pine-charged-in-new-zealand-with-drunken-driving\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Star Trek&#8217; actor Chris Pine charged in New Zealand with drunken driving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chris_Pine_2_2013.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4066\" alt=\"Chris_Pine_2,_2013\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Chris_Pine_2_2013.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"265\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wikipedia photo<\/p>\n<p>WELLINGTON, New Zealand&#8211;Hollywood actor Chris Pine, known for playing Captain Kirk in the &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; movies, has been charged with drunken driving in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old American is due to make his first court appearance in the case on Monday, court officials said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Police said in a statement that a 33-year-old American was charged March 1 with driving with a blood-alcohol level over the legal limit, which in New Zealand is .08 per cent. Police did not name the man, but said he was stopped during a routine early-morning check near the South Island town of Methven.<\/p>\n<p>Pine&#8217;s agent and publicist could not be reached immediately Wednesday for comment.<\/p>\n<p>Pine has been in New Zealand filming the movie &#8220;Z for Zachariah,&#8221; which is due for release next year. Much of the filming has taken place on the South Island&#8217;s picturesque Banks Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>Casey Crawford, manager of the Blue Pub, a Methven bar, told Christchurch newspaper The Press that Pine was attending a celebration at the bar on the night of Feb. 28 to mark the end of filming and was accompanied by his Icelandic girlfriend, Iris Bjork Johannesdottir.<\/p>\n<p>Pine was drinking beer and did not appear intoxicated before leaving at about 2:30 a.m., Crawford said, adding that Pine had obliged locals who wanted their photo taken with him.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He looked like he just wanted to spend time with his partner,&#8221; Crawford told the newspaper.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford said the party was well-controlled. &#8220;Chris was really good. They were a good crowd, the whole lot of them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Crawford said the bar offered patrons transportation home.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to playing Capt. James T. Kirk, Pine also played Jack Ryan in the movie &#8220;Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wikipedia photo WELLINGTON, New Zealand&#8211;Hollywood actor Chris Pine, known for playing Captain Kirk in the &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; movies, has been &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[986],"class_list":["post-4065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hollywood","tag-chris-pine","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}