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After dyslexia caused him grief in school, John de Lancie<\/strong> found acting to be his salvation.<\/p>\n The actor was dyslexic at a time when no one knew much about dyslexia, or what to do about it.<\/p>\n “I was not a good student, and the reason I was not a good student is that I didn’t know how to read,” said de Lancie. “I was dyslexic, but at the time that was not really a word that was used. What was used was ‘mildly retarded’ or ‘slow.’ I ended up flunking out of a couple of schools. The last school I went to, they said ‘Oh, no, no, we think he’s dyslexic,’ but nobody really knew what to do with that. I probably was fourteen by that time.”<\/p>\n A teacher led de Lancie to discover acting. “My teacher, who was really quite a wonderful teacher…we would do projects,” said de Lancie. “One year, we would do Handel<\/strong>‘s Messiah<\/em>. Another year, we did Marriage of Figaro<\/em>, and then this particular time of the year, it was in the springtime, he said, ‘We’re going to do Henry V<\/em>, and de Lancie, you’re going to play Hal [King Henry V].’ I could barely read it, but I learned it, and I did it, and a gentleman who had come…took my father aside and he said, ‘If your son has an interest in this, you should encourage him because he has a flair for it.'”<\/p>\n “And so it came to me mostly as a life preserver, quite frankly.”<\/p>\n De Lancie also spoke briefly about his best-known character to Trek fans, the omnipotent Q. Would de Lancie ever reprise Q? “I don’t think so,” he said. “I could come on as a voice or something like that, but…I’m supposed to be an immortal, omnipotent guy, and, you know, what you would mostly see, you’d kind of go, ‘Wow! Q\u2019s really aged!'”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After dyslexia caused him grief in school, John de Lancie found acting to be his…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413],"tags":[2833],"class_list":["post-32480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","tag-de-lancie"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T'Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"Cast & Crew<\/a>","tag_info":"Cast & Crew","comment_count":"8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32486,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32480\/revisions\/32486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}