And I was trying to find boots, that was hell.
Like I found this pair, I had to go from like $400 pairs to $50 pairs,
nothing looked anything like our Star Trek boots.
These boots are made for walking, and that's just what they'll do.
One of these days these boots are gonna walk all over you.
Casting the, the beautiful woman in a show is always a bitch.
I, I never wanted to stop playing her.
I remember it was, it was very hard on eh on, on Deep Space Nine, because we had to
find a woman who was not only eh beautiful and a good actor, but also had the wisdom
of somebody who was supposed to be like hundreds of years old.
And you know and then you treat me like 'well she's just a model' *Oooh* Right.
So oh thanks for that.
So then you're expecting me to be smarter than I actually am *laughter* capable of being
OK.
How did I get the fucking part *laughter*
It was like finally by August they couldn't find anyone to play this character of Jadzia Dax,
so then they brought me in, it was like
OK now we're scraping the barrel let's bring Terry Farrell in,
and so I basically look... looked like a space slut.
I had on haa seriously it was still like the end of the Madonna so, or Madonna time when
she had all the bustier things, and so bustier, and I definitely loaded it up so my boobs
looked way bigger than they were, and they said Rick Berman needs you back up at the top,
and there and there's uh Rick, and they said you've got it, and I burst into tears.
My character wasn't clearly defined.
I remember Rick Berman telling me to be more like Yoda, and then having me come up another
week and telling me I need to be more like Grace Kelly.
Like Grace Kelly.
We got a call from Whoopi Goldberg, wouldn't it be great to have her play this alien character.
Kind of a Yoda like eh character.
What excites me is when little kids will come up to me, little girls, and uhm
"Aah you're my hero", and you think wow!
I don't realise that I'm affecting somebody coz I'm generally at work.
I'm not out that much.
I don't go out too much, but that makes me feel really good, and it's nice that
a little girl will think I wanna be like that, and I'm playing somebody who's intelligent
and centred, and somebody who's cares about life, and protecting people, and
she has her priorities in order.
He was something different, manipulative, treacherous, trusted by neither side.
We managed to bring together uhm a, a group of wonderful actors, wonderful actors.
Eh people like eh Siddig,
eh people like eh Colm Meaney,
eh Rene... I was going to say Eshabria.
Auberjonois.
Rene Auberjonois.
Uhm we've had some eh just some really remarkable people who have come in and played these roles.
People, John Billingsley, eh Dominic Keating.
We eh, we put together a great cast.
Yeah we did, and I remember Connor, I mean we eh drr we did, it wasn't a struggle.
Remember when Jolene came in she kind of eh, she kinda nailed it.
We can't keep taking these kinds of losses sir, not if we expect to win this.
Thankyou doctor, that will be all.
This is where I shot my very first scene after being cast on the show,
and I have to tell you I was a nervous wreck.
I mean imagine watching Star Trek as a child on television, and suddenly finding out
you're going to be part of this legend.
It's a thrilling experience, and in the beginning
I think it took me about 4 months to finally settle down and relax.
They hired me an acting couch because I couldn't handle the technobabble,
so that wasn't humiliating at all. *laughter*
First season yeah we went through hell getting you here, and now
I don't know, we might want to let you go 'cause you can't do the technobabble.
Well yeah it doesn't help that you change it right before I walk in the door.
*laughter*
And then unfortunately I had a make-up artist who was giving me a bad time.
The tunnels make-up wasn't working for me, and she wasn't convinced that it wasn't working for me,
but after like 20 injections from my dermatologist I was like you have to do
something different, and then unfortunately 'cause uhm I'm me and I'm a little emotional, and
at the time I was 28 so I was very hyper-sensitive.
Maybe spoke down to me a little too much you know, 'cause I was just a little actress,
and I called Michael and I was sobbing, I was like "I'm sorry, but she is really mean".
*sighs* You work for someone who's... eh, he was not respectful of me, and I know that
if I was a man he would've treated me very differently, so all around it felt like I
have to stand for this, so I, I, he wanted to fight that and I had to, you know I was
put in the position that I just had to say no.
But when it came up that my contract was up, and eh
I didn't actually need it to look like more money.
I went and had a meeting with Rick Berman, and eh in the meeting many things were said,
but one of the ones that felt more important to me was I am, he was convinced I was trying
to play some kind of eh hard ball game as he kept saying to me,
and I'm like 'I'm just tired'.
Would you make a deal like that?
No.
Then why should I?
You shouldn't.
You're not a very good negotiator, are you.
I get up at 4 in the morning and I wait to go to work, and then I sit in my chair and
I wait for the actors to get there, and then someone doesn't get the plane or what have
you, and then I go home and I wait, and then I come back the next day and I wait.
I mean there's so much that you're, I'm just tired of that whole,
6 years of waking up at 4am, and I've gotten better at my job.
It can look like less episodes, can I please just do like be a recurring character.
Mm
How many people were on the show!
Yeah.
Right, it's not like you'd miss me for, I mean you might if you're a fan, thankyou so much *Laughter*
It was not my show, I was no number one, really
and so he said "Absolutely not, it's take it or leave it".
Very well, we'll make the trade.
It'll be a lot easier once you get settled in.
Have you picked out your quarters yet?
They were very welcoming, wonderful, some of them were tired from wearing that make-up
for so many years hahaha, but uh poor Armin, I know, but actually Armin was uhm the one
who was really the nicest to me, reaching out from day one.
Uhm so yeah it was a great experience.
I just felt so right about playing that role, like when, soon as I read the sides for the
audition I just knew that was my part.
I think for Terry she was very, very hurt by producers.
I stand here as a strong woman saying 'I could not let a man like that browbeat
me or bully me into saying yes', and that's what he was telling Ira Behr, which I did
not know until 2 years ago, because Ira Behr and I hadn't spoken.
Eh I thought Ira wasn't sticking up for me,
becuase I thought they were obviously having conversations.
Ira was getting from Rick "Oh she's signing, she's signing, don't, she's just pissed".
We were all bummed out at the end of season 6 when we lost Terry,
uh we didn't think it was going to happen.
We didn't want it to happen, and it happened.
There were things that were not spoken of, I never talked to him about it,
like I didn't go to him like "What's going on..."
Right.
You know. "With you guys?
You know I'm going right?", There was not that kind of conversation,
because I thought Rick Berman was the all (right) powerful Oz.
(right) It didn't even occur to me that I could ask Ira.
While we were still filming in the sixth season in January, what's called pilot season.
I started reading for pilots, and I started testing.
I started getting really close to getting a few different shows,
and then I didn't get them.
Rick Berman knew this.
Rick Berman is like that asshole haha ha.
Wouldn't it have been fabulous if my body had been in a fabulous gay man,
and then Worf would have had to deal with that.
Oh my God!
Right.
I was literally thinking the exact same thing.
Oh we can't be the only two.
No. No.
I know, I know I'm not.
Yeah.
Because, we, all of us, you know Michael will, will say wouldn't that be awesome.
Especially Worf, not Michael.
Michael's got a huge heart, he's, no, no, you know.
Yeah.
But Worf, poor Worf would've been like...
Could you imagine?
Out of his skin.
If it had been like a super hot trojan style warrior.
OH.
That bonded with Worf.
oh. and Worf was like...
Big guy.
I'm kinda into this.
Big guy, not a feminine guy.
Yeah. Like whoa.
Rrrrr. Yeah.
That would've been great.
So great.
It, they were so late in the show they did not know what to do with me going away,
and Rick had put his foot down that I couldn't be recurring, I couldn't come back, he was
mad enough that he was killing me,
so I guess I'm impressed that I made that guy so, that
powerful man so mad he killed me.
*Laughter & Applause*
Are you ready boots.
Start walking.