{"id":11051,"date":"2011-01-03T11:34:28","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T19:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=11051"},"modified":"2011-01-03T11:34:28","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T19:34:28","slug":"visitor-romance-with-siddig-inevitable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/01\/visitor-romance-with-siddig-inevitable\/","title":{"rendered":"Visitor: Romance With Siddig Inevitable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Nana Visitor<\/strong> had no intention of falling in love with Alexander Siddig<\/strong>, when it happened she realized it was meant to be.<\/p>\n

When Visitor met Siddig, she was married with a baby (her son Buster). “[The relationship] was actually a shock,” she said. “You can’t forget that I was married, with a baby, when I met him, and he was twenty-four years old. So I kind of always saw him as a very young man and off limits. There was no question.”<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>In fact, initially Siddig’s girlfriends saw Visitor as someone to whom they could come for advice on their relationships with him. “His girlfriends would come to me for advice. ‘How do I do this?’ I just didn\u2019t see him that way. The romance was very surprising, but then there was this feeling of inevitability that I’ve only had a few times in my life, like, ‘Yes, this is my road. This is what’s meant to be. This child is meant to be.'”<\/p>\n

Even though the relationship didn’t last, Visitor “Still feel[‘s] that. I still absolutely feel that way.”<\/p>\n

Visitor also shared her opinions on playing Kira Nerys. One thing she disagreed with at first but came to realize was right was making Kira Nerys a less harsh character. “There were a lot of fascinating turns for the character,” said Visitor. “And there were times, as an actor, where I didn’t agree with them. But it was my job to play the role, and I did. One thing that I did have to go with, and they were right, but at the time I didn’t want to let go of where I was heading with the character, was the softening of Major Kira. I loved that she was a major character and not necessarily so likable. On television, you’ve got to walk a thin line of being a hero and having faults. They were absolutely right about that.”<\/p>\n

Another thing Visitor didn’t like was a change in her uniform, when she ended up in a tighter uniform with\u00a0 high heels. “And the other thing was the feminizing of her that we did. I wasn’t crazy about that, either,” she said. “In year two, suddenly the outfit got tighter and heels came out. I know that Ira Steven Behr<\/strong> always says that was me. They talked about the fact that I walked like John Wayne<\/strong>. I said, ‘Well, it’s my outfit. That’s how I feel in that outfit.’ So, yes, I was responsible for the change in the costume, but it wasn’t really one that I wanted. It was one that I thought would get us where they wanted me to go.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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