Interview: Nana Visitor On Star Trek Putting Actresses In The “Female Box” And Going Backwards In ‘Enterprise’ (trekmovie.com)
from ValueSubtracted@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 22 Nov 2024 03:56
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frankPodmore@slrpnk.net on 22 Nov 2024 09:44 next collapse

These interviews are really interesting! I’m going to have to go and read the book now.

halm@leminal.space on 22 Nov 2024 15:04 next collapse

Ooh, now I want to read the stuff that didn’t make it into the book, and the interviews that never got made for different reasons. How many copies do each of us need to buy for a sequel to be commissioned?

ValueSubtracted@startrek.website on 22 Nov 2024 15:31 next collapse

When the book was initially announced, I didn’t think much of it, but it seems like Visitor really put a lot of work into this thing.

halm@leminal.space on 22 Nov 2024 16:03 collapse

Sounds like the publisher approached her to do a coffee table fluff book, and then she added her own critical feminist special sauce 🌶️🌶️🌶️

halm@leminal.space on 23 Nov 09:18 collapse

Actually, I think the publisher expected something more along the lines of this vapid waffle… 😆

1SimpleTailor@startrek.website on 23 Nov 01:04 collapse

Disappointed that Marina Sirtis wouldn’t interview, though I kind of get why. Her role as a woman on Trek is certainly one of the more… complicated ones.

halm@leminal.space on 23 Nov 06:50 collapse

For sure! That’s why I hope this book opens more conversations with Sirtis and others about their experience, whether it’ll be in a Visitor-penned sequel or elsewhere.

Specifically Sirtis would be interesting, because she so definitely was put in the “female box”, while her real (or convention appearance) persona is much fuller — and outspoken than the often docile role she played.

Corgana@startrek.website on 22 Nov 2024 15:12 next collapse

This is the first I’m hearing of her book, it looks good and I’ve always liked Nana’s willingness to speak out. I will have to check it out.

Anticorp@lemmy.world on 23 Nov 05:01 collapse

Wow, I wouldn’t even recognize her if I ran into her on the street. Did she get lip injections?

hOrni@lemmy.world on 23 Nov 10:07 collapse

I think it’s more like, there’s been 30 years since DS9.

halm@leminal.space on 23 Nov 20:06 collapse

That, and she doesn’t still wear the Bajoran nose ridge prosthetic…