Colm Meaney wanted to play O'Brien as American. “Rick Berman sat me down and said, ‘The whole notion of this show is that it’s multiracial’… I reluctantly started to play him Irish" (www.irishtimes.com)
from Kirk@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 18 Mar 20:50
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Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 21:20 next collapse

Times sure have changed since “no Irish need apply”

ValueSubtracted@startrek.website on 18 Mar 21:31 collapse

“No, Irish need apply!”

grue@lemmy.world on 18 Mar 22:08 next collapse

Makes me wonder what he thought about Data’s offhand mention of Irish Reunification, or even if he had a hand in it (talking politics with a writer or something).

richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one on 18 Mar 22:35 next collapse

That article is reason enough to like the guy, if one didn’t like him before.

TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world on 19 Mar 00:25 next collapse

“What this show needs is more Operations Chiefs who built ships in bottles as boys, and can sling some daerts. I’m counting on you, Meaney.” -Berman probably

73kk13@discuss.tchncs.de on 19 Mar 04:25 next collapse

“It’s so hard to get sh*t made unless it’s a f**king Marvel comic.”
And consequently equally hard to get anything else but a Marvel movie to watch. Art monetarized to this existent just isn’t art anymore.
Don’t misunderstand me, I like some good entertainment now and then, but I prefer movies that make you think and can even change you for the better.

Kirk@startrek.website on 19 Mar 12:46 collapse

Well said and I’m glad to see this perspective expressed. “Entertainment” is the spice we give art to well, spice it up. But without the art part, pure entertainment is to our minds like eating a bowl of candy is to our bodies.

MalikMuaddibSoong@startrek.website on 19 Mar 04:50 collapse

“The house I grew up in was built by the Dublin Corporation,” Meaney says.

“How could we build houses then and can’t build them now?.. It’s fking Thatcherism, Reaganism, the neoliberals and the trickle-down economy that Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael both bought into, [the idea] that the market will sort everything out. B***ocks.”

Our boy doesn’t hold back and I’m here for it! <img alt="Wink" src="https://startrek.website/pictrs/image/5c7f7b9b-ab20-4043-b324-90ae7df73d79.apng">

Kirk@startrek.website on 19 Mar 12:44 next collapse

Oh yeah I should have mentioned that the whole interview is great

_stranger_@lemmy.world on 25 Mar 14:55 collapse