Star Trek Beyond: 25 Easter Eggs, References & In-Jokes
12. The Winter's Bone In-Joke
Simon Pegg revealed just before the film was released that new alien character Jaylah was inspired by Jennifer Lawrence's character in Winter's Bone:
"We were trying to create this very independent character. But we didn't have a name for it. So we just called it 'Jennifer-Lawrence-In-Winter's-Bone.'" "That's a long name, so it started getting tiring always saying, well Jennifer-Lawrence-In-Winter's-Bone is fighting here. So then we started calling her J-Law. And then she became Jaylah."
It also shouldn't go unnoticed that she appears to share a very similar design to the tribal aliens who appear at the start of Star Trek Into Darkness...
