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My name is Casey Biggs.

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I'm originally from Toledo, Ohio.

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I went to school the Julliard in New York

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City for

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lived there for many years

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and I

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was going back and forth quite a bit

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and when I got

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DS9

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I was living out here for about two years

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when I finally got

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the first episode that I did

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before I started working on Star Trek.

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I

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started in the theater.

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I mean I was classically trained

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and when I grew up and I thought Oliver

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I couldn't believe anybody would ever pay me to

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want to

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act and I only really want to act on

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stage.

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I wasn't really

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interested in film

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television and then

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I did a little bit of television and film

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work

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and of course it gets under your skin and

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And

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and

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you sort of can't stop

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but I did

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I did a lot of

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episodes of bad guys in a lot of

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episodes on television

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and was interesting too is that I'm

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it was a

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interesting change because when I came out here,

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I mean I was always the hero on stage.

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I mean always cast as the hero of the

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leading man

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when you're out here you were like

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unless it's your show.

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You're always the bad guy.

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So

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you're the bad guy guest of the week.

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But what was neat about DS9 was that I

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started out as a

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I ended up as a hero, so that's what

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was great about that.

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I got a call to come in and audition

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for this part and I looked at the script

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and ice and literally had two lines.

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They're in range sir and fire

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and I'm sitting there with a room full of

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people thinking

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why am I here?

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Anybody can do this?

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So I went into the room

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and I really didn't know anybody in the room

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and I were a bear

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was the

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executive producer was in there.

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And then I got a call back.

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I had to come back and read those same

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lines again,

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and I walked into the room

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and they said

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who's a very intelligent reading you did last time.

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And I thought well if four lines it's four

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words.

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It's pretty intelligent.

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But what I didn't know and I didn't learn

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this until about a year later

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that I will bear

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from the great guy and he's become a good

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friend is

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an obsessive fan historically of the Alamo

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and I did a huge

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film about the Alamo was in a huge literally

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and figuratively it was an IMAX film called the

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price of freedom

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and it was a very very first dramatic IMAX

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film ever shot

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and he had seen that

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When I walked into the room, he saw me.

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It's like oh my God, William Barrett Travis is

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in the room

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but to answer your question whether or not I

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knew this role was going to go this way.

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No, I didn't and neither did the writers because

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I remember talking to

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Hans Riemer and

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Renee are severe all the guys that were writing

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the show

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around the last episode that we were doing

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and

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they didn't even know

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what was going to go.

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They liked me which was great and they liked

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what I was doing with the character and I

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think Rick Berman liked what I was doing with

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the character.

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And they just it just kept getting bigger and

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bigger and bigger.

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And

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if for those of people those of you out

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there who really know

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about the Alamo you can really pick out all

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these Alamo

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references through the end.

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And the way I died was the way that

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my character died in the Alamo pretty much

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and it was all

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it was fasting but no, I have no idea.

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I mean, I think the first season I did

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two episodes

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the next season I did six or seven and

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then they'd like 14

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per year after that.

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That was fantastic.

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A typical day

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in coming in to shoot with this usually started

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with me the night before realizing I had to

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get up at three o'clock in the morning

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to be

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at Paramount at four o'clock in the morning

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to sit there and get in the beach to

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get there all the makeup on in the beginning

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was rather exciting because

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it was all new and

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but by the second

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year I was like, oh my gosh

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and the worst part to me were putting those

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big things on your neck at flick of think

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about it for clock in the morning

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and they're rubber

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they're very light

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but it's all this

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surgical adhesive.

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They have to paint on you and it's cold

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and it's four o'clock in the morning.

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And the thought of that still gives me shivers

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of having to put that on

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so you get there

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at four clock you supposed to be finished by

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7

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you rehearse from 7 to 8 and you start

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shooting

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and then

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what a lot of people may or may not

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know is that

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shooting a television show or film is so much

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about

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hurry up and wait,

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you're just waiting to shoot

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you'll get

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ten minutes on screen or on camera,

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and I had 18 hour day.

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And then so you finish

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seven eight o'clock at night from four o'clock in

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the morning and it would take an hour to

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take the makeup off.

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So that's

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another hour.

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So

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I think more people more cardassian got over time

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in this show than anybody else that had ever

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been

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in Star Trek

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and then

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you go and start all over again get up

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at four o'clock the next morning or three o'clock

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and come back in

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but you know, I wouldn't change it wouldn't change

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it for anything.