{"id":9282,"date":"2010-05-25T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=9282"},"modified":"2010-05-25T13:24:49","modified_gmt":"2010-05-25T20:24:49","slug":"ryan-on-seven-of-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/05\/ryan-on-seven-of-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan On Seven Of Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although <strong>Jeri Ryan<\/strong> has moved on to other projects, her memories of working on <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> are good ones.<\/p>\n<p>Seven of Nine was a outsider character, along the lines of Spock, or Data and that was part of what made her unique. &#8220;It was part of watching her looking at humanity from a different, outside perspective,&#8221; said Ryan. &#8220;She was trying to regain her humanity and relearn it, so she was very child-like in a way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/011309JeriRyan.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-9283\" title=\"011309JeriRyan\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/011309JeriRyan.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"132\" height=\"138\" \/><\/a>Ryan used her experience as a mother of a son to better understand how to play Seven of Nine. &#8220;&#8230;I used my son, who was two-and-a-half years old at the time, as a model for the character,&#8221; she said. &#8220;She was like a child, watching things, and when I watched the baby, I saw he did the same thing. His reactions were new, like hers. It&#8217;s an interesting thing to see ourselves from a different perspective and not somebody who&#8217;s just a different species who&#8217;s commenting on humanity. She was somebody who had to learn to embrace it herself and learn all the nuances of it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition to having that child&#8217;s view of humanity, Seven of Nine was also an innocent when it came to sexuality. &#8220;That was sort of the innocence of the character which was sort of refreshing and fun. Which is very much in contrast to Tara on <em>Leverage<\/em>, who was incredibly aware of everything and was not at all adverse to using whatever she needed to use to get to a mark. She would use her sexuality and was very comfortable in her skin. That was really fun and refreshing for me to play because I never really played a character like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ryan still hears from <em>Star Trek<\/em> fans, even though <em>Star Trek: Voyager<\/em> has been off of the air for years. &#8220;I still get more fan mail from <em>Star Trek<\/em> than from any other job I&#8217;ve ever had,&#8221; she said. &#8220;There is no fan base like the Trek people. They are incredibly passionate, incredibly loyal. They&#8217;re a pretty amazing group of people. I actually did my first convention in five or six years just this past year and it was fun just to reconnect with them. It was fun to revisit those times.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although Jeri Ryan has moved on to other projects, her memories of working on Star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2406],"tags":[2423],"class_list":["post-9282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-voy","tag-ryan"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-voy\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: VOY<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: VOY","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282","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=9282"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9285,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9282\/revisions\/9285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}