John DeLancie Gates McFadden panel

a nacelle company has done both uh i'm co-executive producer on it but mainly that was because i could get my friends to you know come and be interviewed but uh it's really about all of the star treks all of the movies all the shows and i learned so much i'm the narrator on it but i really uh i really had a great time on it and that's the honest truth i mean i i was like gene what someone really people tell you the inside stuff it's really pretty amazing amazing is that how narrows are coming it's it's been out so i don't you know it's history channel amazing uh would you like to take some questions or uh yeah but i'd love to be able to see the people yeah the audience mic is right up here um if you'd like to light up and uh is there someone here to kick it off already hi how are you do you all know that john de lancie and i also shot a movie together called taking care of business a long time a long time [Music] [Applause] hello so i know you guys must answer a lot of questions um so my question is is there a question that you're dying to answer that no one's ever asked you and is there a question you wish people would stop asking you [Laughter] yes there is a question that no one has asked me that i've always wanted to answer and the answer is no [Laughter] that sort of covers it as far as i'm concerned actually all right next thank you thank you very much hi how are you your question hi um so i grew up on star trek starting back back in the day in the 60s with my dad watching reruns and the next generation i was in college so you guys helped me survive my undergrad and now i have a master's degree and i'm teaching college and it's fabulous so i have a non-star trek question for gates can you tell me one of your favorite memories of working with jim henson i just learned this about you that you did all this amazing stuff with jim henson well i i think my my well my favorite memory is teaching david bowie to waltz in the ballroom scene but you know that was more in my fantasy after we were doing the choreography [Music] but i think it was the first time i met kermit yeah yeah i was a sucker for that frog and he's so adorable and you really you know he just sort of they they trick you they stay active when everyone's disappeared it's something jim used to do to everyone who was the first time doing a muppet show of any kind and i was doing my mistake manhattan and they just all disappeared he gives them some signal and i was so nervous it was my first movie it was like you know and i'm practicing my two lines you know like a frog with my musical and i'm like going over it in my head and the frog is he's doing his practice too and it was like and he's like here and i'm like what are you doing and he answered me and i answered him back and then i answered and then i went gym because they're so real and lovable thank you thank you uh hi so i'm sure you've been asked this before but my question is kind of what is your favorite star trek episode that you filmed and maybe if you have a least favorite something you didn't enjoy filming um well i haven't seen picard yet so i don't know what the card looks like i mean there are some scenes i kept on looking out there and he was somebody was down here yes i know so picard so i don't really know what that looks like i mean there were a couple of scenes in picard that i thought oh those these could be really perhaps iconic scenes but so without that to dip into i would say all good things for me at least was was a show that um it was good i thought everybody was clicking on all cylinders everything the the writing the acting the directing everything was on you know on all eight cylinders i think for me my favorite uh all good things was quite wonderful but for me actually my favorite was directing genesis i really really enjoyed myself and i know it's not a necessarily a big fan favorite it's kind of more of a horror uh thing than than sci-fi in a way but not really but i i i had spent so many years looking at things for example in sickbay that i had wanted to use in some way you know like they were the jars that were colored jars and i said to brenda said i'm taking a piece of your skin out of there you know because i just so it was fun in that way and i really i loved being able to have the ship be dirty and not so neat so that was my favorite thank you i actually love genesis and all good things so thank you hi welcome to kc by the way um my question is primarily for gates but john please chime in um the uh what i think is great about next generation is and when it came out with it is that it's so much more in line with the star trek concept that gene run bearing had originally presented and so much more different and streamlined with his ideas than like original star trek my question for you guys is when when you were filming the first season um and noticing how different it was how much more um maybe serious dramatic you know less campy it was was there ever like an aha moment for you guys where you're like wow we might have something here because i think maybe with the original concept the producers thought that gene roddenberry's idea couldn't work was there a moment where you guys were like wow this is this is going to be awesome i'm going to say something i when i first saw him do hue i thought it was fabulous because i love it was so theatrical [Laughter] not everybody could pull off that character i think i think that is very much the truth and i thought it was great to have this sort of shakespearean sort of level thing heightened reality or whatever and john has the right balance of humor and uh well low on the talent no okay he has high talent but i i mean i think that's when i started to feel okay this could be a platform for a lot of different things and and uh that was in first season so there you go um i had i was told things afterwards i i became friendly with michael piller who told me that if star trek the next generation had not had a guarantee of two seasons it would have been off on the first at the end of the first one yeah he said it takes a while for any show to find itself and so um uh that was something that was going on in terms of what what it was that that you were you know in terms of gene being there and this was his you know something he had worked on for a long time uh that's just a bit of factoid but but i also think i think that um the first season to be honest there was a lot of recycling of themes from the original series yes yeah and not all of them were equally good yeah uh i think that i mean that's where i got into trouble uh there was an episode i thought was so racist and there was another one i thought was so sexist and i did not know enough that you just don't sort of spat off about it now i've learned um but at any rate i think it was when it started to get into like the third season because again even with diana moldar's character she's a wonderful actor but it was like trying to make a woman bones and one of the things that i thought was great in gene's ideas for next gen was bringing in a younger generation like to have wesley crusher and he had a son he had a son who was like that age and i thought that was fantastic it also was great to have a single parent and you know there were so many things that were different um and as john said i think it does take several years to find the place and um we found it i would say more fourth fifth season oh yeah well i i would have said it earlier than that yeah yeah uh you know something um gates and i sometimes do the star trek crews which at first we were all a little horrified at the idea of being you know with 3 000 fans for which you kind of go oh my god there's absolutely no escape it's but we've we we've come to really enjoy it um it's it's become you know a lot of fun so in any case last year last year i don't even know just no no we just did one or i just did one um yeah this year yeah so in any case i'm in my room and you know we've we work a lot on these things uh but in the room i had to tell television on and because it's a star trek cruise every channel is structured [Laughter] i'm like oh my god but it gave me an insight into something which i had never experienced before and that is that this is i'm not i'm not telling secrets out of school here most of us really don't watch the show you are the experts we are not we do the work we we are very clear about what it is that our character is what the story is what have you but even with picard now i mean i shot it i don't know less than a year ago and people are coming up to me and they're saying oh i love the scene where you go and i'm going i don't kind of remember that scene and so in any case i'm watching uh i would go on and just to kind of decompress i would turn on an episode and it would be classic track and then next channel and then d6 and then voyager and then whatever the other one is that nobody knows about and i would never watch any of the episodes fully but i began to watch how they were shot and the feeling that i got from them and i have to say that at the end i went you know i really like classic track it's very simple the colors are really bright um the sets are a little very stagey and um and i just was like oh i can kind of calm down you relax a little bit watching classic track it was my first time to be able to see all of it together and every once in a while i would come across you know i go oh my god oh my god that's i don't want to me that so um so what's interesting with picard is um how much the cameras have evolved they pick up light in all kinds of ways like they would pick up faces in a way that i go it's so dark how can you see spaces but actually you can because they're so sensitive uh to to light and also the way there's the difference for me was doing picard there were always four to five cameras yes simultaneously you have a camera every angle someone's doing close up here so i mean it's amazing and then you have people doing moving cameras so that's exciting i loved having that experience this time because i don't know it's the choreography part of me i really love seeing how things the what movement does to these things and they had different camera equipments and lots more cranes that had different lenses so i'm really looking forward to seeing this picard what we shot because it's cinematic and gorgeous the thing that's always hard when you're an actor is you go oh they cut that part that was my favorite part and i'm no longer there that happens all the time but you know and it's also horrible to watch yourself on screen it's really it is it takes a while yeah it does just see nothing but things you don't like oh i wish i'd done that oh my god my nose oh you know it's just like it's intense my nose that's what i was talking about yeah no i i totally agree i when i shot the first scene um you know i i figured we were in a way i i went back to where it was next gen so which often times was pretty much sticks the camera would be in a stationary position you kind of fit into it uh you know it's pretty far out uh everybody's shot from here or down you're not helped very much here i remember saying to them i go wow god how many cameras do you have rolling here it's like four you know you you know so you kind of go you know what i'm not playing to the camera anymore they've got it completely covered and um and there was a scene actually uh it's a scene uh that takes place i don't know if it's been shown yet where i'm talking to geinan and i i said i said um oh by the way do you want to know what happens to the end of the where i'm talking the kind and i said to the director i said to the actress i said don't take this personally but i'm not really talking to her this is not really about her and so i don't want to be drawn into that and yet at the same time we are in a cell and you know classically if you are talking about stuff which is you know future and you see what's going to happen you know you you you know you you gravitate towards a window or something i said i wish there was something that i could look out of and immediately the dp said we'll take care of that we'll take care of it which was so different than the original he said so he put a little inky outlet which is just a little light that i would walk into and it would give that feeling and you kind of go oh my god thank you so much so it was very different a very different feel and highly supportive yeah that's true and and also we we had the props were much more cumbersome in next-gen for me like we had all these plastic tablets which of course are like ipad things now but you if you set it down on that my dr crusher's desk and it made any noise i'd have to loop i'd have to do dubbing on the whole scene so it was like it was always very unnatural because everything made noise and it's so different in the this this series it's it's the game is really up but my favorite my favorite story about how i was when they shot it because i had never done a thing where i had to have the marks like you hit the mark you don't go beyond that because the cameras were fixed so you really had to be careful and they were doing dolly shots and so i just didn't get it i was too much of a theater actress and so i kept going too far on this scene and they kept saying just sandbag it saying so they put sandbags down so i wouldn't keep going so far but i was so like i'm a dancer i can do it so i go there and then i climb up the sandbags and they really they went we have never seen an actor do that like like that is she is really loopy okay yeah something else since we're waxing on so nicely actually about working on the car um the opportunity to talk with the executive and to be able to say um you know you don't start out by saying what the hell is this scene about you know but to be able to say oh that's what i used to do um i see what you're trying to do um i think that i can help by by suggesting a few lines here or or focusing it you know such authentic you know what have you um and they were like oh of course yes let's see what we can do to do to make that happen and i went oh wow well so that was nice yeah i i love terry madolas is it was the one for this season and i really adored working with him it was an experience i had never had he's my favorite producer i've ever worked with because he would listen he he would say okay i'm not going to deal with this now but but make sure i have by next week because we'll do this and and they always will listen to you and they would explain if they if they would say no we don't want to do that they would explain why which was phenomenal so i had a great working experience yeah because the last one i'm

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