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December 10, 2002

In the latest series of Nemesis related interviews, Trekweb has posted their interview with Marina Sirtis. Note, Nemesis spoilers are included. Below is a snippet:

“I’m not a method actress per se but I do have to actually feel what I’m saying is true. Otherwise, it sucks,” she says bluntly in a deadpan worthy of cast mate Patrick Stewart. Let’s not mince words. “This one was hard. It was hard because every time we did anything it was ‘oh my god this [could be] the last time we’re going to do this,’ so that was hard. We had a director who wanted to approach it like it was the first STAR TREK movie, so every time we said, ‘well, actually, I don’t think my character would do that,’ he’d go ‘I don’t care, do it this way anyway, that’s how I want you to do it’,” she laughs. “For me it was like I had to find a way to make it all work and it wasn’t like the others where I just turned up, put on my space suit and there I was ready to work. This time I actually had to work.”

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While Troi’s role in the story is not diminished, there were two particular scenes that beefed it up. Both gone.

“There was an initial rape violation, it’s in the trailer, not in the movie,” she says, referring to the oft-shown scene of Troi clasping her hands together in the film’s trailers and television spots. “I understood why it was gone, I didn’t have a problem with it. There’s another scene that’s gone where I’m walking the corridor with Patrick after he’s met Shinzon and realizes that he’s a clone-sort-of-thing; that was a scene where I was counseling him. Obviously, the original script that we shot, the ending was very different from what ended up in the movie. Originally Gates was going be gone, I was going to be gone, Riker’s gone. It was going to be a much bigger split up of the cast. I thought that the script would probably be [ok in length]—because as an actor you don’t add time on for special effects. I didn’t have an idea that it was going to be this long. It was actually last night that Rick said, ‘John wrote a three hour script.’ I thought it would be about two and a quarter hours—I didn’t think it was long—I mean, LORD OF THE RINGS is going to be like, ‘pack and take your own lunch!’ No actor wants to see their scenes gone out of a movie but everyone has lost scenes, not just me and Gates.”

To read more, click on the link below:

http://talk.trekweb.com/articles/2002/12/09/1039413395.html

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