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Jeffrey Combs

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and I'm from California

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born and raised

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grew up

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basically on the Central Coast which is about, you

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know, couple

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hours north of

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Los Angeles

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God's country.

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It's really

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really great.

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And

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so that's

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that's where my roots are and

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where I began.

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How did I get into acting

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if completely selfishly and quite naively

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I guess primarily because

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I was pretty shy

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and kind of awkward when I was a kid

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and I had to really outgoing brothers older brothers

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very social and

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I always sort of felt kind of

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not that you know, and

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and I just really kind of discovered

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this world.

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Or I

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felt full

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when I started doing theater.

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They had to

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really urge me to do it.

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I remember taking acting class when I was in

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high school and

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I didn't try out for the play

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but

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someone

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fell out and the acting

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Drama teacher came to me and I was like,

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no

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no way.

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Am I doing that?

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But he

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he worked on me for a while and

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I'm glad he did.

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Because

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you know I ever since then I've just kind

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of

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never looked back.

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You know, it's been a blessing for me.

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The very first

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you know, when you first come to La

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you just kind of

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you know, you're just eager to get in front

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of a camera and really the first sort of

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sci-fi horror movie.

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I did

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was this

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Dreadful piece

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which I suppose should be remain nameless, but won't

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is called

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Frightmare

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and I

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got the job.

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I found out later the director

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who was sort of a

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Man Zero mostel

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told me that

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you know, the reason why

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I got the part

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was that the

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severed head

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prop that they had had brown hair

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and so did I

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so that made me feel

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very special

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that I that I got a part because you

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know, my

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hair

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was the right color.

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But

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so that was my first sort.

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Of horror

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for a but but really it all sort of

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began with three animator.

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It's doing a play

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on Melrose and the casting director.

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Someone asked Cinema card.

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Please come and see us, you know,

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and he came and he

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I knew him

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and he said listen I'm

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you know audition

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auditioning people for this little movie

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called Re-Animator, you know, I think maybe you might

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be right for this role you want to come

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in and

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You know,

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Moe,

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okay,

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I didn't know

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you know anything about

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HP Lovecraft or any of that and I honestly

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thought that when I made that movie, you know,

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no one would ever really

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see it.

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I just saw it as an opportunity to play

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a

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character and a

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get in front of a camera and

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kind of be on a set and

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here we are.

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The very first

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part I did on

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Deep Space 9

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was

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a

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guest star

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in a episode called Meridian.

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I think in the third

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season

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and I was sort of the B Story.

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I

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played this very sort of

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orange Turtle like alien

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who comes to Cork and I want a hologram

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of Kira.

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He's promised me one

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and there's a famous picture actually of

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this beautiful body with

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with with quarks

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few beautiful female body with corks.

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Edwin it

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maybe you've seen that or

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or not.

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Maybe if you haven't seen it you don't want

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to but

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but anyway, that's from that episode.

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That's sort of the

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gag at the end of the episode

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now, I believe we agreed I'd be paid on

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delivery.

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I haven't seen the merchandise yet,

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you know book

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if

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this program is as good as you claim.

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I might just purchase it from you to use

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at home.

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You have your own eyelash with

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just a little present.

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I bought myself.

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Is very old

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polish week.

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It's good to have money.

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but

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that was the first time that I was on

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Deep Space Nine, and I thought that it would

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be my

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only

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Lee time

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on Deep Space 9 because

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you know you guest star on a show you

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generally don't

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guest star again, usually

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and

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or quite so fast because

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what

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maybe a month and a half later they called

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and

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and then they asked me to play Brent

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because

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it just so happened that

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when I played

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when I was in Meridian

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Rene auberjonois who's

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old theater friend of mine.

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I

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was

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getting ready to direct his first episode

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which was a Ferengi episode and he

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suggested me for this new character brunt.

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And

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of course their first response, I believe was

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no he just

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he just got start you

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can't do that

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and Renee persisted and said, well come on

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totally different.

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And so they

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said yes, and

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then there you go.

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So

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You must be caught.

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That's me.

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What can I do for you?

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Brat

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FC

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for Ferengi Commerce Authority?

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Rid of accountability

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we're in trouble.

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All right, everyone.

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The bar is closed.

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Everybody else

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go

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everybody.