Robert Englund Inspired Heather Langenkamp to Wear Prosthetics in 'Star Trek Into Darkness'

TheMidnightClub & NightmareOnElmStreet star Heather Langenkamp explains how she ended up wearing prosthetics as an alien in 'Star Trek Into Darkness.'

You likely know horror icon Heather Langenkamp from her iconic final girl role as Nancy Thompson in the 1980s slasher franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street. Langenkamp has recently re-entered the horror stratosphere with her stand-out role in Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong's latest Netflix series The Midnight Club. What you may not know is that in the years between these two iconic roles, Langenkamp made a brief appearance in another legendary franchise: Star Trek.

In the 1980s, Langenkamp appeared opposite Robert Englund's Freddy Kruger in A Nightmare on Elm Street, the threequel, A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, and the seventh film in the franchise, Wes Craven's New Nightmare.

Luckily, when J.J. Abrams' Star Trek sequel came around in 2013, Langenkamp finally got her chance. AFX did the makeup effects for the film and when production decided they needed a few more aliens in a particular scene, Langenkamp was ready to step in. She told Nemiroff:

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