If you prove you can do it, that you can handle the makeup process and perform well in the makeup, they often asked you back. Also, the people who were in makeup were often back on the shows. How surprised were you to get yet another call to come back to Star Trek? Your next Trek appearance was on Enterprise. I was the one who wanted to keep the conflict going. To him, I was a friend, but it was all business, which is the way those characters are. If you're in the business long enough, you usually almost always know or have at least met some of the people you work with when you do something new.ĭamar, in your final episode, killed Rusot and then very coldly but still regretfully said, "He was my friend, but his Cardassia is dead and it won't be coming back."Įxactly. I had seen him a lot on stage and we had worked together before. I knew him when I was much younger, from his theater company in San Francisco. I didn't know him before, but he was a pleasure. How did you enjoy working with Casey Biggs? Did you get to know him? Had you known him before? I remember that was a very arduous job, but I got paid twice as much as I was offered, so that was good. So, you're already into overtime, and I think we had some 18-, 19- and 20-hour days on DS9 because it took so long to do the makeup and take it off. The funny thing about that gig was… I did aliens on Babylon 5 as well, and when you play aliens you usually make twice as much money as you're billed for because it takes three hours to get into the makeup and two hours to get it off. They said two episodes, and it turned out to be three episodes. Your role on DS9 ended up being a recurring role. "Can you ride a horse?” “Of course." I think most actors probably said, "Oh, no, contacts don't bother me." And I was the one actor who said, "Yeah, they bother me a lot." Probably most actors you know when you ask them, "Can you ride a motorcycle?,” they say, “Sure," even if they've never ridden a motorcycle before. I think I got the part because I said, "I think that will actually be a good thing that my eyes are watering," because I was supposed to be in the throes of some kind of mental anguish, and I think they were pleased by that answer. It was all voiceover with the other Betazoid.
They said, "Do you have any problems with contacts?" I said, "Well, they make my eyes water, but I think in this case it's probably a good thing." And that’s because I was unconscious the entire episode and you just heard my thoughts. I played a Betazoid and you had to wear these black contacts, which made my eyes water. I auditioned for the part and… this is funny. Yes, the casting director, he cast me in all those Star Treks. When you got your first Trek job on TNG, was that an audition?
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