John DeLancie Comments on Picard and Janeway
Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2018 3:50 pm
I just found some notes I had taken earlier this year and thought I'd share them as they're pretty interesting, at least, to me. My apologies if I'm just repeating anything commonly known. I was at BABScon (Bay Area Brony Spectacular)--a San Francisco My Little Pony convention--this April and John DeLancie was one of the guests of honor.
While there he did a dramatic live-reading of Shel Silverstein's poem "The Devil and Billy Markham" which I would HIGHLY recommend experiencing for yourself one of these days. Afterwards there was a question and answer session and DeLancie talked a bit about his acting experiences, including with Star Trek.
One person asked what it was like acting opposite Patrick Stewart as opposed to Kate Mulgrew. DeLancie's response was (roughly reconstructed) that it depended principally on the material he was given. The Voyager producers told him under no circumstances was there to be any hint that Janeway was interested in Q. But Mulgrew and DeLancie knew each other rather well and had a natural intimacy that the producers kept trying to weed out of the shooting.
DeLancie told them that this was badly limiting what both he and Mulgrew could do, like washing the color out of a picture, but they did it anyway. That wasn't an issue with Stewart on TNG since they were both type-A personalities playing off each other, trying to be dominant, etc. So that stuff was better, in DeLancie's view.
Hope that was worth sharing.
While there he did a dramatic live-reading of Shel Silverstein's poem "The Devil and Billy Markham" which I would HIGHLY recommend experiencing for yourself one of these days. Afterwards there was a question and answer session and DeLancie talked a bit about his acting experiences, including with Star Trek.
One person asked what it was like acting opposite Patrick Stewart as opposed to Kate Mulgrew. DeLancie's response was (roughly reconstructed) that it depended principally on the material he was given. The Voyager producers told him under no circumstances was there to be any hint that Janeway was interested in Q. But Mulgrew and DeLancie knew each other rather well and had a natural intimacy that the producers kept trying to weed out of the shooting.
DeLancie told them that this was badly limiting what both he and Mulgrew could do, like washing the color out of a picture, but they did it anyway. That wasn't an issue with Stewart on TNG since they were both type-A personalities playing off each other, trying to be dominant, etc. So that stuff was better, in DeLancie's view.
Hope that was worth sharing.