{"id":52508,"date":"2020-04-09T14:23:03","date_gmt":"2020-04-09T21:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=52508"},"modified":"2020-04-09T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-09T21:23:03","slug":"cruz-more-doctoring-next-season-on-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2020\/04\/cruz-more-doctoring-next-season-on-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cruz: More Doctoring Next Season On Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While doing promotion for a new <em>Apple TV Plus<\/em> documentary series,<em> Visible: Out on Television<\/em>, <strong>Wilson Cruz<\/strong> spoke about <em>Star Trek: Discovery<\/em> and what fans can expect from his character in Season Three.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We just finished Season Three,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I actually get to do a lot more doctoring this season. And they have given me this really epic storyline. This is a man who falls in love and is in a great relationship and then is killed and comes back to life and is a better doctor now because of it. It&#8217;s a great part. It&#8217;s maybe the best part I have had.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Cruz is busy outside of <em>Discovery<\/em>. His latest project is <em>Visible: Out on Television<\/em>, a five-part docu-series about the history of LGBTQ representation on television. Cruz and <strong>Wanda Sykes<\/strong> are executive producers on the series.<\/p>\n<p>One of the stories told on the series is Cruz&#8217;s own. In 1992, he was trying to audition for a television series. &#8220;They wanted three white boys to play choir boys in this series that <strong>Tobey Maguire<\/strong> was starring in,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was called <em>Great Scott<\/em>, on <em>Fox,<\/em> and they wouldn&#8217;t see me because I wasn&#8217;t white. So I stormed [casting director] <strong>Sally Stiner<\/strong>&#8216;s office and badgered her to see me \u2014 and she did because I wouldn&#8217;t relent. She got me that part and was like, &#8216;You&#8217;re a freaking fighter.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That part led to Cruz getting his<em> SAG<\/em> card. A year later, he auditioned for and won the part of Rickie, a gay teenager, on <em>My So-Called Life<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Being out &#8220;made me a better actor,&#8221; said Cruz. &#8220;I think being honest with yourself is part of the job and living authentically as you can is part of the job, because it informs everything. So I have no regrets. 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