{"id":47379,"date":"2017-12-08T10:31:39","date_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=47379"},"modified":"2017-12-08T10:31:39","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T18:31:39","slug":"sirtis-i-thought-id-be-fired-any-minute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2017\/12\/sirtis-i-thought-id-be-fired-any-minute\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirtis: I Thought I’d Be Fired Any Minute"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marina Sirtis<\/strong> spoke to AV Club<\/em> recently about roles she has played, including that of Counselor Deanna Troi.<\/p>\n

These days, people wince when thinking about The Next Generation<\/em>‘s first season, but for Sirtis, the first season was bad because she believed that she would be let go at any moment.<\/p>\n

“Well, Gene<\/strong> [Roddenberry<\/strong>] felt that there was one too many women on the show,” explained Sirtis. “And you need a doctor [Crusher] and a security chief [Yar], but you really don’t need a psychologist. It was as simple as that. Security chief is viable, a doctor is viable \u2014 a psychologist, not so much. So I was getting fired. I asked Majel Barrett-Roddenberry<\/strong> straight out, because we were very close, and I asked her a few years ago, before she passed away, and I said, ‘I was going to get fired that first season, wasn’t I?’ And she went, ‘Yep!’ The irony of the whole situation is that at the end of the first season, I was the only one left out of the three.”<\/p>\n

Then came the writer’s strike and growing closer to the Roddenberry family. “The biggest thing for me was \u2014 there was a long hiatus, because that’s when there was a writers’ strike, so we had a long time off,” said Sirtis. “Despite everything that was going on behind the scenes, I was kind of adopted into the Roddenberry family because Majel played [Deanna Troi’s] mom, and I got invited to all the holiday dinners. They always made sure that if I didn’t have somewhere to go that I had a family to go to. Any holiday, they were amazing like that.<\/p>\n

“So at Jonathan Frakes<\/strong>‘ wedding, [Gene Roddenberry] took me aside, and he goes, ‘You know what, I just wanted to tell you that whenever it is that we go back to work after the strike, the first episode of the second season is a Troi episode.’ And I just burst into tears. Because basically, I’ve been hanging on by my fingernails for that whole first season \u2014 not just professionally, but emotionally. I had landed the best job ever, and I was going to lose it. I was so up and down. One minute, I was so happy to be working. The next minute, I was just in the depths of despair. So when he said that to me, it meant the world. Not only did I have a job, but the first episode after a six-month break was going to be a Troi episode. That\u2019s how much they thought of me.<\/p>\n

“It just freed me up. I was able to finally relax. I was able to go, ‘Oof, okay. Now I can just do my job.’ And when I was just able to do my job, they wrote more and more for me. So there was a good part of it, because I got way more to do, but the tiny little downside is that I got all the love and sex stuff.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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