WEBVTT 00:15.100 --> 00:15.900 I was nervous. 00:15.900 --> 00:18.200 It was nerve-racking, 00:18.200 --> 00:20.200 you know, I done guest star stuff before but 00:20.200 --> 00:21.400 I'd never 00:21.400 --> 00:24.400 I felt the weight of the responsibility that that 00:24.400 --> 00:26.200 I was walking in with and I also felt 00:26.200 --> 00:27.100 the weight of 00:27.100 --> 00:27.300 that. 00:27.300 --> 00:29.600 I thought that they didn't 00:29.600 --> 00:32.100 really sure if they wanted me. 00:32.100 --> 00:34.100 Yeah minded my p's and q's pretty well 00:34.100 --> 00:35.300 tried to hit my mark and 00:35.300 --> 00:36.600 say my lines right? 00:36.600 --> 00:43.000 Fortunately only had about four lines that first day. 00:43.000 --> 00:44.800 When I first walked into the engineering 00:44.800 --> 00:47.500 room, I was intimidated as hell 00:47.500 --> 00:48.300 realizing. 00:48.300 --> 00:50.400 Yeah that this was my office 00:50.400 --> 00:51.700 and 00:51.700 --> 00:53.100 you know, 00:53.100 --> 00:54.700 I have had to fill this space. 00:54.700 --> 00:55.600 Okay, great. 00:55.600 --> 00:58.400 Let's put me next to this big engine. 00:58.400 --> 00:59.300 That's all colorful. 00:59.300 --> 01:02.700 And I'm supposed to get any attention at all. 01:02.700 --> 01:04.800 And 01:04.800 --> 01:05.500 so 01:05.500 --> 01:09.900 I took some getting used to that room. 01:09.900 --> 01:12.100 And working in that room. 01:12.100 --> 01:14.300 It's not very actor friendly. 01:14.300 --> 01:16.000 There's lots of stuff to walk into this lots 01:16.000 --> 01:17.300 of stuff to trip over. 01:17.300 --> 01:18.100 You know, we 01:18.100 --> 01:18.900 there's a, 01:18.900 --> 01:20.700 you know, running joke that 01:20.700 --> 01:23.800 you're guaranteed at some point during the day actually 01:23.800 --> 01:26.400 in any part of our ship, especially the captains 01:26.400 --> 01:28.400 office and 01:28.400 --> 01:29.400 an engineering 01:29.400 --> 01:31.000 to smack your head 01:31.000 --> 01:32.700 and it's hot as hell. 01:32.700 --> 01:35.400 It's by far the hottest room in the entire 01:35.400 --> 01:37.100 entire set. 01:37.100 --> 01:38.800 All that heat rises the top and for the 01:38.800 --> 01:41.400 most part we're walking on catwalks unless I'm 01:41.400 --> 01:43.300 I'm you know diligently at work at the the 01:43.300 --> 01:44.900 console. 01:44.900 --> 01:46.400 So 01:46.400 --> 01:47.700 I love my office 01:47.700 --> 01:53.300 could use some AC. 01:53.300 --> 01:55.100 the most memorable episode 01:55.100 --> 01:57.900 thus far 01:57.900 --> 01:58.800 would have to be 01:58.800 --> 02:00.500 similitude because 02:00.500 --> 02:02.600 I thought that it 02:02.600 --> 02:05.300 it achieved. 02:05.300 --> 02:07.000 A difficult task that it was trying to give 02:07.000 --> 02:08.200 itself 02:08.200 --> 02:11.200 in tackling the moral and ethical issues that 02:11.200 --> 02:12.400 that that episode 02:12.400 --> 02:13.100 entailed 02:13.100 --> 02:14.700 and and I thought that 02:14.700 --> 02:16.500 we all did a good job 02:16.500 --> 02:17.400 at 02:17.400 --> 02:19.800 a telling that story 02:19.800 --> 02:22.800 all down the line. 02:22.800 --> 02:25.900 I've enjoyed other ones, but that one 02:25.900 --> 02:27.900 that one asked a lot of me as an 02:27.900 --> 02:30.200 actor and and it was nice to feel as 02:30.200 --> 02:32.100 though 02:32.100 --> 02:37.300 I hit the ball solid. 02:37.300 --> 02:39.400 The role of a director in episodes like that 02:39.400 --> 02:42.300 is is crucial and I've been really fortunate that 02:42.300 --> 02:44.000 Levar has been the director 02:44.000 --> 02:46.400 for me in a number of these episodes that 02:46.400 --> 02:49.600 have that have been 02:49.600 --> 02:51.800 that have dealt with issues like that 02:51.800 --> 02:57.100 big big big ethical moral issues. 02:57.100 --> 02:58.800 And having only really worked with him and episodes 02:58.800 --> 03:00.400 like that to thing about him that so great 03:00.400 --> 03:02.200 is that you walk in with stuff and you 03:02.200 --> 03:03.600 have to walk in with stuff 03:03.600 --> 03:04.500 with him. 03:04.500 --> 03:05.900 Otherwise, it's 03:05.900 --> 03:07.500 he's sort of like pulling teeth, 03:07.500 --> 03:09.600 but he is 03:09.600 --> 03:10.700 really Adept 03:10.700 --> 03:12.000 at tweaking, 03:12.000 --> 03:14.000 you know, you'll come in with something 03:14.000 --> 03:15.000 and a lot of times you'll come in with 03:15.000 --> 03:16.200 something on a show and you just do it 03:16.200 --> 03:17.300 and you keep going 03:17.300 --> 03:19.400 but he's really really good at taking what you've 03:19.400 --> 03:19.700 done. 03:19.700 --> 03:21.600 I'll so being a very good actor in his 03:21.600 --> 03:23.300 own right? You know 03:23.300 --> 03:23.900 that just going. 03:23.900 --> 03:24.400 Okay. 03:24.400 --> 03:25.200 That was great. 03:25.200 --> 03:27.600 You've got that on that now. 03:27.600 --> 03:28.900 Not just turn the knife for now. 03:28.900 --> 03:30.900 Just click the dial, you know, just take it 03:30.900 --> 03:33.200 take a little more off-kilter where you thought you 03:33.200 --> 03:34.700 were supposed to be 03:34.700 --> 03:36.900 and 03:36.900 --> 03:37.400 it's 03:37.400 --> 03:38.600 it's always worked. 03:38.600 --> 03:41.100 I have a good I love working with him. 03:41.100 --> 03:42.400 I do it for free. 03:42.400 --> 03:43.700 Well, 03:43.700 --> 03:49.700 not for free. 03:49.700 --> 03:53.600 Cogenitor turned out better than I thought it would 03:53.600 --> 03:55.800 having never worked with Dominic before. 03:55.800 --> 03:59.000 I didn't know how shuttlepod 1 would work out. 03:59.000 --> 04:03.200 That was also hugely taxing physically 04:03.200 --> 04:06.300 and it was just us two 04:06.300 --> 04:09.000 in that in that shuttle pod together. 04:09.000 --> 04:11.100 So the I wasn't sure those were 04:11.100 --> 04:13.100 a couple that just come to mind that that 04:13.100 --> 04:14.800 worked out 04:14.800 --> 04:17.800 better than I thought they would 04:17.800 --> 04:19.500 the ones that don't work out as 04:19.500 --> 04:21.800 Well, as I want them to are purely actor 04:21.800 --> 04:25.200 based that's performance-based 04:25.200 --> 04:27.000 by the time they get that show written in 04:27.000 --> 04:28.500 and they comb through it and 04:28.500 --> 04:30.500 rewrites and all that kind of stuff happens. 04:30.500 --> 04:31.800 They know how to write a show 04:31.800 --> 04:33.200 and it's their story 04:33.200 --> 04:34.900 some stories are better than others. 04:34.900 --> 04:36.500 But in terms of 04:36.500 --> 04:38.900 in terms of any sort of disappointment about how 04:38.900 --> 04:41.500 an episode might have turned out 04:41.500 --> 04:44.300 invariably comes down to to my own critical eye 04:44.300 --> 04:49.200 of myself. 04:49.200 --> 04:50.400 The most challenging thing 04:50.400 --> 04:54.000 for me physically on the show 04:54.000 --> 04:56.900 funny enough was I couldn't move 04:56.900 --> 04:57.700 we were 04:57.700 --> 04:59.600 suspended 04:59.600 --> 05:03.200 about 15 20 feet in the air. 05:03.200 --> 05:05.500 In harnesses and then had all this 05:05.500 --> 05:07.800 gel and gook wrapped around us. 05:07.800 --> 05:09.100 There was this alien that was 05:09.100 --> 05:10.800 slowly 05:10.800 --> 05:12.500 constricting on us 05:12.500 --> 05:15.800 and stand being suspended for 15 hours a day 05:15.800 --> 05:16.800 is awful. 05:16.800 --> 05:21.400 You can't things start falling asleep on you. 05:21.400 --> 05:23.400 You don't know that they're asleep until they start 05:23.400 --> 05:26.000 to ache and then they bring you down and 05:26.000 --> 05:27.400 you can't get up 05:27.400 --> 05:29.800 and we were covered in a combination 05:29.800 --> 05:32.300 of what they use to make milkshakes. 05:32.300 --> 05:33.100 McDonald's 05:33.100 --> 05:36.000 and KY Jelly 05:36.000 --> 05:37.600 I think the p*** industry in the valley was 05:37.600 --> 05:39.200 shut down for three or four days because we 05:39.200 --> 05:41.100 had it all 05:41.100 --> 05:42.900 I was pulling stuff out of my hair for 05:42.900 --> 05:43.900 weeks. 05:43.900 --> 05:46.200 It was it was it was really challenging and 05:46.200 --> 05:47.300 and 05:47.300 --> 05:48.300 and also when your 05:48.300 --> 05:49.100 extremities 05:49.100 --> 05:50.700 go to sleep and you're spending like that you 05:50.700 --> 05:53.600 get super cold. 05:53.600 --> 05:54.700 So it was tough 05:54.700 --> 05:55.900 wasn't any fun at all.