‘The Masked Singer’s Knight Is A ‘Star Trek’ Legend: The Costume Was An ‘Absolute Horror’

Spoiler alert! The Masked Singer is back, and 1 of the astir beloved TV legends of each clip was unveiled arsenic the Knight during the season 8 premiere. HollywoodLife spoke EXCLUSIVELY astir the 1 and lone William Shatner astir wherefore helium wanted to bash the amusement close now.

“Well, it’s a precise fashionable show, and I’ve got a batch of things going on. I thought it would springiness maine the accidental to bash the show. It’s a amusive show, worthwhile doing successful itself, but it besides gives maine the accidental to speech to you and archer you I’ve got a publication coming out, a bid that I bash called The UnXplained. It’s got a caller play coming out. There’s a ticker that I designed coming out, 2 documentaries, different album, truthful it’s an accidental to notation that a batch of worldly I’m doing is coming retired successful the adjacent period oregon two. The amusement is simply a fantastic springboard to springiness you an illustration of the amusive we tin person with the worldly that’s coming along,” William said.

William Shatner arsenic the Knight connected ‘The Masked Singer.’ (FOX)

William dressed arsenic the Knight, a costume that included metallic armor and a aureate goose. The champion portion astir the costume? “When I got retired of it, it was truthful peaceful,” William quipped.

The Star Trek actor was brutally honorable astir however the costume wasn’t excessively casual to execute in. “The costume was an implicit fearfulness to execute in,” William quipped. “I couldn’t spot retired of it, couldn’t feel, couldn’t move, [it was] heavy, and nary aerial inside. It was a hazard. As I recognize it, I had a buddy who went connected immoderate months agone and helium said it was the archetypal acquisition of his beingness successful being that you enactment connected the opus without the costume, you get it down, but past erstwhile you enactment the costume connected everything changes.”

William Shatner was revealed arsenic the Knight. (FOX)

He continued, “It was ridiculous. I mean, it was designed to impede you. It was designed by a devilish decorator whose lone ambition was to marque definite the histrion wrong couldn’t breathe.”

At 91, William is busier than ever. “I conscionable emotion what I’m doing. Doing this show, for example, determination was a large woody of amusive successful its hardship,” helium told HollywoodLife. “It’s unsocial and you permission it saying I’ve ne'er experienced thing similar that successful my life. It’s a full caller story. It was decidedly hard to execute successful each of it, but if it gets immoderate attention, past ngo accomplished.” The Masked Singer airs Wednesdays connected FOX.