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I'm Chase Masterson.

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I

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grew up all over my father was in the

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Army and

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he

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was stationed in Germany when I was a little

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girl and we lived there and traveled all through

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Europe

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for several years

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and original Alaska

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Connecticut where my parents are from

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and we landed in Texas,

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which is also a whole other country

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and

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and I lived there for

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for nine years and and then came out here

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I've been here for

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Can use down.

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I started when I was 5

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my mom is a director

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and actress

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and I'll never forget we were standing in the

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kitchen

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of our little house in Indiana

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and she said

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I'm going to go to an audition which is

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where they tell you

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if you can be in a play or not.

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Would you like to come with me and see

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if you can too

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and I said

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damn straight lady.

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So it was

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it was great.

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It was getting to

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start at

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getting to start an early age was

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I think gave me a bit of a head

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start.

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Not in terms of career

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that all happened quite a bit later,

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but in terms of understanding

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the art

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of the business,

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I'm happy that I got the early start.

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I did I did my first professional

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play

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Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream

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when I was 18

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and

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sang and danced professionally for a few years

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and

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from a television a few years later.

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It's all good.

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The theater is a lovely place.

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And I enjoy keeping my hand in that

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from time to time.

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When I got the audition for Star Trek,

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I was very happy to get it

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Star Trek

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was the one show that I had really

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prayed to be on actually

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because I knew of the incredible fan following

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and I thought frankly

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that it would be good

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strategically

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for my career.

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I also had grown to love the show.

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I love Deep Space Nine because of the incredible

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diversity of the show

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and the comedy in the drama and the pathos

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and

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And I really love the Ferengi.

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So I was very happy to get the role

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of Lita

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when I got it.

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I Roberto told me actually in

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I think it was the fifth season

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that they had written the role of leader for

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me

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and

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I'd still had to audition.

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It's funny how that works.

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But

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but I was happy

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to finally be on the show.

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I'll never forget my first day on the show.

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I was so excited to be there

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a little too excited probably

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and

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I was in the

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pair trailer

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at five o'clock in the morning.

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And

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Avery was in there what Avery was doing

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in a hair trailer.

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I don't know

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but he was in there and I was

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had my hair rolled

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and

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at the beginning of three and a half hours

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in hair makeup and wardrobe mind you

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that's how long it took.

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I had my hair rolled and

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was

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The trailer and saying goodbye to everyone and I

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said, okay.

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Bye everybody.

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I'll see you later.

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And thanks for rolling my hair and I'm going

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to

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go now to

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make up and I'll be back after I

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get finished with makeup and then I'm going to

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come back and see you and then you can

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unroll my hair and I'll put my word or

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okay, I'll see you later guys.

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Thank you.

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Bye

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and

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you know just dorky new

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Happy me

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and as I'm leaving,

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I turned I say bye.

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Mr.

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Brooks

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and he turns to me and he says goodbye

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Cathy

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and

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I say oh.

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Oh, no, I'm not Kathy.

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I'm Chase Chase Masterson.

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I met you when I auditioned for the role

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of Marty which I didn't get but it's okay

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because I got through a Lolita

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and I'm here now and

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I'm going to be on your show and you're

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the star

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and I'll see you later.

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Mr.

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Brooks by

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and he said she later

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Kathy

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and I said no, I'm not Kathy.

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I'm

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I'm Chase.

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I play Lita.

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I'm not Cathy.

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I never even played a Kathy

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and he took one long hard

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Avery Brooks.

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Look at me

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and said,

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NordicTrack

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I had done a NordicTrack infomercial

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years before

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how embarrassing and now

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my first day on the show Avery Brooks the

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star is reminding me of it.

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How embarrassing

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so I took one long hard Chase Masterson look

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at him

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and I said Avery

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I got paid for doing it.

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What's your excuse for watching it?

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I used to joke that my favorite part of

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the job was

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the hot towel that they gave you and makeup

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at the end of the day

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because it's so great was from the microwave and

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it was just

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felt really good.

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Actually.

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That's probably not far from the truth to

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sit back and look at a day.

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Well done.

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We knew we were doing some fabulous work and

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having a wonderful

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wonderful time doing it

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as well

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the cast and crew of Deep Space 9.

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Is

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just a fabulous team

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and one

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that doesn't come along every day

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because it was really a bit of a Camelot,

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you know, because

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the work was so compelling

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and

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it wasn't just like a job, you know a

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lot of actors.

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I mean, sometimes we're happy to get whatever job

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we get to do

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and Deep Space.

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Nine was not like that.

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It was it was very special in the stories

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and in the work and in the energy between

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us

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in the cast and the crew

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and

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And

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so I think my favorite part of the job.

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is something that still goes on to this day

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when I see

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you know, the people that

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I had such a fabulous connection with through the

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show

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and

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I think that's something that I take with me

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and that

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that I cherished then and now