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I did an episode of scene with

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Armin shimerman

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where I was in the bar

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and for some reason all the producers like the

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way I looked sitting in that bar.

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Well from then on

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there was rarely a scene that I didn't have

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a drink in my hand

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and I was getting and

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it's a very funny story too because that's tough.

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You know the prop people go to the producers

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and say well, what do you want this to

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look like

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and somebody just happened say well, it should be

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very thick

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they go away

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and they

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thick thick how can what is thick

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so I come in one day and they pour

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the stuff that I have to drink

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and it's Karo syrup.

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Now,

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it makes me gag the thought of it anybody

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tried drinking Karo syrup and I complain for a

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year and a half about this stuff

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because I would drink it after drink it all

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the time

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and then the last season.

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Finally said to the producer I said if I

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have to drink this you have to drink it.

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I mean something has to change here.

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So I came in

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one day and instead of Karo syrup.

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They had sugar-free maple syrup,

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which is even worse to me than Karo syrup.

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And anyway, I was very

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very glad when they led up to this episode

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that Renee directed where

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Damar turns and he decides he's had enough and

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he's going to become a rebel

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and I take that Karo syrup and I look

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in the mirror

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and I'm

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supposed to

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be look I catch a glimpse of myself

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and I'm disgusted with what

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I've become and I just take a nice throw

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it into the mirror and it drips down and

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I never had to have a drink of that

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again

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for the whole last step

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last half of the season.

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So that was that was

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that was good.

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the cool thing they had with

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weyoun and Damar where the fort is they somehow

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they could keep making them

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cloning these

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these things

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and I

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I guess one of the episodes when

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Wharf and

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the Dax was we had captured them or something

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and

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Worf

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kills

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weyoun,

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and I sort of set it up

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and I come walking into the

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scene and I see that he's done that you

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know, I look down and I sort of chuckle

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and

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I say well

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you should have killed me

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because there's only one Damar

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because we know the next scene.

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I'm sitting in my office Iran this

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the Starship or whatever it is.

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Were

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and in walks

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Jeff again

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and I look at them

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and I said, oh well as

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wave number

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15 or whatever you were

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I say that you better be careful.

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I'll be saying hello to

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way.

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You number 16 pretty soon

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and well, so I really liked that a lot.

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I want it to be

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Bill Shatner when I was young.

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I don't want to be him now, but I

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would want them to be of what I was

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when I was young

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because I thought that that's the kind of actor

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that interest me some of that kind of passion

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that kind of

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delivery

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and the one episode that I

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don't do that.

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I would love to have done

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was the one when they all were on the

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baseball team and everyone is out of makeup and

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Jeff and

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Mark where cops and

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but what they did do nicely is that the

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for I think for my because they knew I

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wanted to be in and I was in New

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York I couldn't do it.

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They made me

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Avery psychiatrist in one episode and I was Damar

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and the psychiatrist

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and that was that was really

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a cool thing to be.

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Those two characters in the same episode.

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Well, one of my favorite

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parts of this piece

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doing this particular work

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is two or threefold because when you do this

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kind of work, and I've said this before

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and interviews that

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you really sort of have to be of Shakespearean

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proportion to be able to do this kind of

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dialogue because it's so incredibly melodramatic

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now in order to make that kind of stuff

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work and be believable

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you really have to have great actors.

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Because you

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you know the first time they open their mouth

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that you don't believe them otherwise,

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and that's what's great about about Avery and Anna

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and Mark alaimo and Jeff and Armand.

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These are all incredibly well trained actors

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and

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and I spent four years in a classical school

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at Juilliard myself.

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And in order to do this

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a lot of times sounds like gobbledygook,

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but really still make it.

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Sound like it's coming from

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some kind of a being.

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You really have to be well trained and I

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think stepping on

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set or the stage with these people

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who are incredibly well trained you you feel like

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you're in rarefied company and that's what one of

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the things that I enjoyed most about it.