WEBVTT 00:15.000 --> 00:16.400 James Horan, 00:16.400 --> 00:18.100 I'm from Louisville, Kentucky 00:18.100 --> 00:19.400 about 10 years ago. 00:19.400 --> 00:20.800 I did my first 00:20.800 --> 00:22.700 episode of 00:22.700 --> 00:24.800 next gen 00:24.800 --> 00:29.400 and I played Joe Brill in the suspicions episode 00:29.400 --> 00:33.000 and that was my first Star Trek Experience 00:33.000 --> 00:34.400 one human. 00:34.400 --> 00:36.300 Yes, Lieutenant Barnaby 00:36.300 --> 00:40.200 that was in the dissent part 2 episode 00:40.200 --> 00:41.100 which was the 00:41.100 --> 00:46.400 first episode of the last season. 00:46.400 --> 00:48.600 Actually, the character is sort of 00:48.600 --> 00:51.100 made for you and you're when you're wearing 00:51.100 --> 00:51.900 that mask. 00:51.900 --> 00:54.000 It's like where it's like acting in a mask, 00:54.000 --> 00:55.300 you know, it goes back to the sort of 00:55.300 --> 00:56.100 the 00:56.100 --> 00:58.000 ancient roots of drama really where 00:58.000 --> 01:00.100 people did put on masks and it 01:00.100 --> 01:02.000 it evoked a spirit 01:02.000 --> 01:03.900 that sort of came through the actor and 01:03.900 --> 01:05.000 I just found that 01:05.000 --> 01:06.100 especially 01:06.100 --> 01:07.200 when you wearing 01:07.200 --> 01:09.100 three or four hours of makeup and 01:09.100 --> 01:10.400 they work on you for that long. 01:10.400 --> 01:11.500 And then you kind of turn and look in 01:11.500 --> 01:11.900 the mirror. 01:11.900 --> 01:14.100 It's sort of the character is there, 01:14.100 --> 01:16.100 you know, and I sort of just kind of 01:16.100 --> 01:17.100 Maybe a little 01:17.100 --> 01:18.900 different tone of voice and 01:18.900 --> 01:21.600 finding out what the guy is about 01:21.600 --> 01:22.800 who he is and 01:22.800 --> 01:24.500 especially in the case of the jem'hadar. 01:24.500 --> 01:25.600 For instance. 01:25.600 --> 01:27.300 I didn't know much about Jem Hadar when I 01:27.300 --> 01:29.600 when I got that part on deep space. 01:29.600 --> 01:31.700 It was a two-parter 01:31.700 --> 01:33.800 playing this Jim had our leader in an internment 01:33.800 --> 01:35.000 camp. 01:35.000 --> 01:37.500 And so the Ron surma the casting director gave 01:37.500 --> 01:38.300 me 01:38.300 --> 01:39.700 a tape of 01:39.700 --> 01:42.600 of an earlier episode that kind of explain their 01:42.600 --> 01:44.900 whole deal of who they were where they came 01:44.900 --> 01:46.000 from. 01:46.000 --> 01:47.500 Why they have this stuff going in and out 01:47.500 --> 01:49.600 of their neck. 01:49.600 --> 01:50.400 So it was good. 01:50.400 --> 01:52.500 It was good, but it was still it's true 01:52.500 --> 01:54.400 that 01:54.400 --> 01:56.300 the character sort of comes through you when you're 01:56.300 --> 01:56.900 wearing a mask. 01:56.900 --> 01:58.300 You don't have to find it as much as 01:58.300 --> 02:00.100 you do when you're just playing a human or 02:00.100 --> 02:04.800 yourself. 02:04.800 --> 02:06.600 I've created 02:06.600 --> 02:09.700 two aliens that apparently have never been seen before 02:09.700 --> 02:11.800 or since as far as I know 02:11.800 --> 02:14.000 one was then the suspicions episode of T and 02:14.000 --> 02:14.800 G 02:14.800 --> 02:16.400 where I played the to Caron 02:16.400 --> 02:19.400 and not sure if there's ever been another dakorón 02:19.400 --> 02:22.600 the interesting character and interesting species 02:22.600 --> 02:23.300 had this 02:23.300 --> 02:26.200 ability to shift their cellular dispositions so that they 02:26.200 --> 02:26.600 could 02:26.600 --> 02:27.800 actually exist with a 02:27.800 --> 02:30.800 hole in them 02:30.800 --> 02:32.800 Gates McFadden playing Crusher shot a hole in me 02:32.800 --> 02:56.900 and I kept coming. 02:56.900 --> 02:57.700 But 02:57.700 --> 03:00.000 anything could faked their own death, they could 03:00.000 --> 03:01.100 just 03:01.100 --> 03:04.700 apparently alter their straight their cellular composition. 03:04.700 --> 03:05.500 Interesting character. 03:05.500 --> 03:06.800 I don't know why they weren't brought back. 03:06.800 --> 03:07.700 But 03:07.700 --> 03:09.500 and then in the in an episode of Voyager, 03:09.500 --> 03:11.000 I played a 03:11.000 --> 03:12.500 type of alien called 03:12.500 --> 03:14.100 colotti 03:14.100 --> 03:15.400 of character named tosun 03:15.400 --> 03:17.300 at the scene with neelix in the fair trade 03:17.300 --> 03:20.900 in the so 03:20.900 --> 03:25.000 20 parts per million isoloop leg residue. 03:25.000 --> 03:27.000 This is contaminated. 03:27.000 --> 03:29.100 You promised me a pure sample 03:29.100 --> 03:31.000 really doesn't matter 03:31.000 --> 03:32.900 because you're under arrest 03:32.900 --> 03:33.900 what 03:33.900 --> 03:35.100 so 03:35.100 --> 03:37.700 those two were yes, totally totally new to me. 03:37.700 --> 03:39.000 I didn't know what they were going to be 03:39.000 --> 03:40.200 about 03:40.200 --> 03:42.100 the Khiladi was interesting because 03:42.100 --> 03:43.800 as they're putting it on me, they go 03:43.800 --> 03:45.000 you don't have a problem not breathing through your 03:45.000 --> 03:45.400 nose. 03:45.400 --> 03:48.100 Do you 03:48.100 --> 03:50.000 know I guess not but 14 hours later. 03:50.000 --> 03:50.300 Of course. 03:50.300 --> 03:51.500 I was going 03:51.500 --> 03:56.800 to have a problem. 03:56.800 --> 03:58.100 II like 03:58.100 --> 03:59.500 the Deep Space Nine 03:59.500 --> 04:00.900 two-parter 04:00.900 --> 04:03.000 of the 04:03.000 --> 04:04.200 previous 04:04.200 --> 04:05.000 shows 04:05.000 --> 04:08.100 I just because it was 04:08.100 --> 04:09.800 it had more of an arc 04:09.800 --> 04:10.700 to the character. 04:10.700 --> 04:12.800 He started out one way, 04:12.800 --> 04:15.000 which there wasn't a lot of 04:15.000 --> 04:17.300 leeway in how you play Jem Hadar and it's 04:17.300 --> 04:18.600 like they are who they are. 04:18.600 --> 04:21.200 You know, they're they're bred to be Warriors. 04:21.200 --> 04:23.500 They don't they don't think about anything else. 04:23.500 --> 04:23.900 At least. 04:23.900 --> 04:26.900 This is what I was told, 04:26.900 --> 04:29.100 you know, they don't they don't they don't eat 04:29.100 --> 04:30.400 per se they don't sleep. 04:30.400 --> 04:31.100 They just 04:31.100 --> 04:32.000 they're like 04:32.000 --> 04:35.000 myrmidons that are bred to do this one thing 04:35.000 --> 04:36.400 but this character he was like, 04:36.400 --> 04:37.500 he was told to me that 04:37.500 --> 04:38.700 Was one of the oldest 04:38.700 --> 04:40.400 Gem and our he was probably like 04:40.400 --> 04:42.200 18 or something when they only lived to be 04:42.200 --> 04:43.700 about 20 04:43.700 --> 04:44.300 or 04:44.300 --> 04:46.500 maybe even less but 04:46.500 --> 04:48.900 he developed a conscience or are he and 04:48.900 --> 04:52.200 he was in so impressed by Worf 04:52.200 --> 04:54.700 through these Gladiator battles that he was staging with 04:54.700 --> 04:56.000 his own people 04:56.000 --> 04:59.400 and he was so impressed by Worf's prowess that 04:59.400 --> 05:01.100 when it came time to kill him. 05:01.100 --> 05:02.100 He couldn't do it. 05:02.100 --> 05:04.000 He said I 05:04.000 --> 05:04.700 can't kill him. 05:04.700 --> 05:07.600 It doesn't interest me anymore. 05:07.600 --> 05:10.200 And then he sacrificed himself 05:10.200 --> 05:11.100 because he knew he was 05:11.100 --> 05:12.600 he knew that that would be a death sentence 05:12.600 --> 05:17.700 for him. 05:17.700 --> 05:18.600 I 05:18.600 --> 05:20.100 yield 05:20.100 --> 05:20.300 you. 05:20.300 --> 05:21.700 What 05:21.700 --> 05:23.500 are you? 05:23.500 --> 05:25.900 I cannot defeat this Klingon. 05:25.900 --> 05:27.300 All I can do is 05:27.300 --> 05:28.900 kill him 05:28.900 --> 05:29.700 and that 05:29.700 --> 05:36.400 no longer holds my interest. 05:36.400 --> 05:37.600 I don't have a 05:37.600 --> 05:39.900 I don't have a problem wearing 05:39.900 --> 05:42.300 the it's a rubber suit when you're playing a 05:42.300 --> 05:44.900 jem'hadar 05:44.900 --> 05:47.100 and then it's a whole like rubber head 05:47.100 --> 05:48.200 and then a rubber 05:48.200 --> 05:52.600 face them in the well the latex face piece. 05:52.600 --> 05:54.800 I don't sweat a lot 05:54.800 --> 05:56.100 quite frankly. 05:56.100 --> 05:57.700 And 05:57.700 --> 05:59.600 and so I'm sort of a makeup person's dream 05:59.600 --> 06:01.300 and that I they don't have to keep re 06:01.300 --> 06:03.500 gluing me. 06:03.500 --> 06:05.300 I can sort of just stay 06:05.300 --> 06:06.400 where I am. 06:06.400 --> 06:08.600 Not a problem in that and I'm not claustrophobic 06:08.600 --> 06:09.400 about 06:09.400 --> 06:09.800 stuff. 06:09.800 --> 06:11.600 I have to wear if it's during the course 06:11.600 --> 06:12.700 of the 06:12.700 --> 06:14.600 of the Care in for the character 06:14.600 --> 06:15.600 for the course of that run. 06:15.600 --> 06:16.900 So 06:16.900 --> 06:18.500 wasn't it wasn't a problem for me playing a 06:18.500 --> 06:20.300 jem'hadar 06:20.300 --> 06:22.700 now every day for weeks on end. 06:22.700 --> 06:25.400 I might have a problem. 06:25.400 --> 06:26.500 But the week that I did it it was 06:26.500 --> 06:27.600 fine. 06:27.600 --> 06:29.700 They do zip up at the back 06:29.700 --> 06:33.900 which makes the potty breaks kind of interesting 06:33.900 --> 06:35.400 get me out of this now.