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A Good 'Ol-Fasioned Trek Thread
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May 13 | A new and very funny video interview with Star Trek The Next Generation star Brent Spiner is online at YouTube.
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By GustavoLeao / 07:57, 10 August 2011 / Voyager
Mania posted a new interview with Star Trek Voyager star Kate Mulgrew and here is an excerpt
Q: It’s the 45th anniversary of Star Trek. How are you celebrating that?
KM:
I’m attending nothing but conventions for the next six weeks, all over
the world. I go to Vegas and Australia and Germany and Prague and
Atlanta. I’m everywhere! It’s still hard to believe it’s been 15 years
since Voyager and 45 since the whole thing began.
Q: You’re taking on new territory – comedy – with this show, NTSF: SD: SUV. What attracted you to the role and why did you take the part?
KM: Madness. Sheer madness! I lost my mind and found myself with a bunch of other people who lost their minds together! [Series creator] Paul Scheer was astute enough to sense that at this point in my life, I needed a departure and I needed to laugh. So he called me up and he said, “Will you play the head of this strike force?” And I said, “Sure!” He said, “You have to wear an eye patch and you’re obsessed with sex and we’ve been married and divorced twice, and we have two little kids and they don’t talk.” I said, “You’re on!” I went to work for four weeks, maybe it was five, and all I did was laugh. All day and all night long. I think he’s a bit of a genius, Paul Scheer. Comedians of his stripe are really smart guys.
Q: Was that something you’d wanted to do before now? Something looser and more improvisational?KM: People don’t think girls are funny… least of all girls who have been leading ladies. We’re all funny: everyone. It’s tapping into it that and allowing it to be that’s the talent.
Q: The cliché among actors is that you’ve got to find the humanity in every character. With material this over-the-top, is that still a consideration?
KM: You can never try to be funny. Trying to be funny is a big failure. I took myself deadly seriously in this part. I have to be serious with this character. I have to be the boss, I have to be in control of my emotions at all times. Otherwise, the humor doesn’t work.
Q: What was the best thing they’ve given you so far?
KM: I had a scene with Paul, a break-up/make-up scene in the car. Sometimes I had to literally bite the inside of my cheek I was laughing so hard. I also had a sex scene with somebody on the floor; not actual sex, but talking about sex. We were painting pictures of having sex. I got to cut off John Cho’s thumb. And I got drunk with a dolphin, though I don’t remember why. That was a scream.
The full interview is here,
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