{"id":52010,"date":"2020-01-13T16:03:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=52010"},"modified":"2020-01-13T16:03:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-14T00:03:49","slug":"sirtis-and-spiner-aging-in-star-trek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2020\/01\/sirtis-and-spiner-aging-in-star-trek\/","title":{"rendered":"Sirtis And Spiner: Aging In Star Trek"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new interview with TrekCore<\/em> during last weekend’s press tour for Star Trek: Picard<\/em> features Marina Sirtis <\/strong>and Brent Spiner<\/strong>, who will appear in the new series.<\/p>\n

The pair has aged, and they spoke about how that was handled and what was done with their appearances.<\/p>\n

“I love what they’re doing with the show and how it’s going to look,” said Spiner.<\/p>\n

“No, no, no,” said Sirtis. “Stop. I don’t know, because really the man who invented that high definition camera \u2014 and it was a man, because a woman would have never fucking invented it, excuse my French. May he rot in hell for all eternity!”<\/p>\n

Spiner teased Sirtis, saying “Right. But see, in my case: CGI…so I look fine!”<\/p>\n

“Yeah, it’s all right for you, Mr. Android,” said Sirtis. “The rest of us look like something the cat dragged in..The thing that I was most thrilled about was that I didn’t have to wear a space suit!”<\/p>\n

Spiner went on to explain that a compromise had to be made in his appearance, due to money.<\/p>\n

“Well, the powers that be, when I met with them, I said, ‘How am I going to play Data again?’ And they said, well, that CGI has come a long way, and that they could make me look really good. [I ended up] in the same makeup [and wore the] same contacts…<\/p>\n

“So, the first day on set, I put on the makeup and everything, and think, ‘Oh, this is okay!’ Then I get this phone call \u2013 ‘It’s just too expensive. We can’t do the CGI. It’s just too expensive.’ And I went, ‘Wait a minute, you know, I was told…’<\/p>\n

“After a discussion, I said, ‘Well, you understand I don’t have to be CGI’d back to what I looked like on the series, it has to look like how I looked at the end of Nemesis<\/em>.’ And they went, ‘Oh, sure, that’s right! No problem! We’re gonna do it.’<\/p>\n

“And they did. It has changed a bit, though, from some trailers that came out early.”<\/p>\n

For Sirtis there was no CGI. The production was fortunate though that she had taken home the black contact lenses that she had worn in Star Trek: Nemesis<\/em>, as well as her Troi wig.<\/p>\n

“I got the call, and then I didn’t hear anything [about Troi’s contact lenses]. So I called and said, ‘You do know that I wore a wig and black contact lenses?’ I told them, ‘I think I stole them [from Nemesis<\/em>], so I think I have them.’ So we got the contact lenses cleaned \u2013 since they’ve been sitting in a case for like 15 years \u2013 and I have the wig, [both] that I wore in Nemesis<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“And it was really good that I did, trust me! They wouldn’t have had time to make a $10,000 wig, and I was in England doing a play anyway. I wrapped on a Saturday and was at Universal<\/em> on Monday, having traveled from England on Sunday.<\/p>\n

“So it was lucky that I did pilfer them!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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