Holy shit guys. Holy shit. I'm a fucking detective.
Alright so here we go. Let's start this story.
So I had a massively hard time figuring out who the really attractive extra was, because a lot of the people listed on imdb as bridge crew did not provide pictures. Between me and my friend, we thought we had it nailed down to Jacqueline King - formerly Jacquelynn King - because she had a similar facial structure to this blurry photograph.
This was my conclusion for a bit, that Jacqueline King was the hot white haired chick. But I was wrong.
Let's start piecing together the journey. First step was deciding to ask reddit, which is also a convenient place to plug shouldiwatchthis.net so that people will see my site and give me money. I decided to do a better google search than what I had done before and sifted through maybe three dozen shots of the bridge - most of them with only the main characters on it - before I came across this.
"Hey wait," I said to myself, "her noise is way more angular than Jacqueline's. There's no way that's her." But, I still clung to my original theory, so I decided to do some more checking, this time with a flat google search. This brought me to Jacqueline's public facebook page - her artist page basically - and found this picture.
Hey, look at that! Its a girl with white hair, but with glasses on. And the post is about Star Trek. Is this a lead? Well, I checked. The person in question was Jodi Johnston - credited for Star Trek as an extra - who has a small open facebook page. Problem is, this is basically her facebook picture. I needed a side shot to really figure out who was who.
So I did some checking around. Just a simple google search of "Jodi Johnston." Here's the image I find. Hey, that face is pretty similar. I had noticed earlier that "Jodi Johnston Model" was a suggested search for what I was trying to find, so I looked. Second image basically confirmed it.
Sure the name was different - its Jodi Ilene on the site - but that's pretty much dead on with the girl in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
There you have it. From two blurry images on google, using nothing but public searches, you can figure out way more about a person than they think. That was never my intention but it seems to be the end result of it.
My intention was to bring her in to the spotlight because I really thought she was a cool extra. I know that's weird to say and probably biased because she's incredibly attractive, but she seemed to care and give it her best on screen. I liked it. A good portion of the people watching must've noticed her or they were blind, and I know I'm not the only one who wants to see a movie either starring her or featuring her in a more prominent role.
Also Ms. Jodi, if you ever end up reading this, I promise that I am not creepy. Also your twitter account got hacked, you should probably check on it.
So you found out the name of some extra you find hot... Congratulations? What a bizarre post.
If you refer to Jacqueline King's post on her facebook page with a link to the Star Trek trailer and her commenting "Getting excited..." (from April 17), someone asks her personally the same question you were looking to answer. She comments: "The blond is Jodi Jonston" (link, here: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=5686193865...) Anyways, kudos on the work - but it was easy as that. +1 internet stalking achieved (you and me both)
First off, it is scary how much boredom and a google search can reveal. Second, were you aware that you (JTHipster) have been best-of'ed on Reddit?
Mind if I pull the discussion over here? Its a fascinating idea, and I have a few ideas about it of my own, but I think hubski is a much better place to talk about ideas (which even if you can sell an idea on reddit its hasn't been a great place to talk about ideas for a while)
Probably the funniest thing to come out of TiA comments as of late.
Well, that's enough reason for me to go see Into Darkness.
Seriously! Is she in any of the older Star Trek stuff, or is she a new addition? I'd much rather see more from her than from the rest of the (supermodel) crew. The only other exception to the "everyone must be fantastically good-looking" rule was Simon Pegg, who had a comedy part.