| We caught up with Alice, at the Voyager: The Return convention in Blackpool. To celebrate the Voyager crew's return to the Alpha Quadrant, Wolf Events organised this con - perhaps one of Europe's biggest to date to showcase the Voyager stars. Author: Neil Bradley [STARTREKUK.COM] Date: July 29th, 2001 Your character in 'Endgame' was much more darker and sinister than in First Contact. Was this your intent? Before I had chance to finish the question, Alice said "Oh my god, really? As far as I was concerned I was just her. I wasn't trying to be darker or sinister. I thought she was pretty dark and sinister in First Contact. No it wasn't my intent, and I didn't realise I was doing so, but you know more power to her." On 'Endgame': "I think 'Endgame' is really worth watching. It was very interesting for me and also quite scary to go from being in the film to being on television. On a sort of purely technical level as an actor, you have much less time in which to get it right, and I was moved and enormously impressed by the crew, and the level and sort of passion and expertise. Of which, I can expect that from actors, but it was just wonderful that they were working to a breathtakingly high standard under such time contraints. Obviously, the story is going to be really sort of interesting and exciting, but I think the look of it, the effects are really quite wonderful." Did they ever have a different ending planned out for the 'Borg Queen'? "That was it, it was certainly the only one that I ever read." Upcoming Projects: "I did a couple of films at the end of last year, and I really hope they will do well because one of them deals with a moving subject matter and it really moved me. It's about the rise of racism in Europe at the moment, and it looks at it over three generations of a young guy who was born and raised in England, who's mother and grandfather are French. His grandfather was a collaborator in the War with the Nazi's, and was highly respected by the equivalent of the National Front in the South of France. The story is about this young guy, and the racism is still there in other forms, and he gets caught up in it. It's called Falling, and it won't come out until 2002 and it will be Arthouse." "The other one is a big sci-fi movie, in fact two sci-fi movies. One is called Dinotopia, which is from a series of children's books called Dinotopia, about a Utopian community where human-beings and dinosaurs live in perfect harmony. The CGI is going to be pretty amazing on that." When you took on the role in First Contact, did they explain to you how you would function in the Borg Collective, and the power you would hold over the Borg? "No one told me anything, so I made up my own mind about what it was that was going on. The conclusion that I came to, was actually that she's it, she says at the top, when she comes down to Data that she is the Borg. And she is the Borg, everyone that has been assimilated are just her minions, just her servants. She's it, which was very convenient that the Queen was it. It made sense to me, that she seemed to be pure energy, pure consciousness and this was the first time we had met her, she had chosen to materialise, she's always been there." When Alice was on stage, she told the story about how she got the part for First Contact, saying that she had been sent the part of the script that would involve the character she was reading for. Apparently, Alice said to her agent "Where's the rest of the script?" Alice wanted to read the whole script, and supposedly her agent said to her "No, you don't understand, this is STAR TREK - you don't get to see the whole script!" STARTREKUK.COM would once again like to thank Alice for taking the time to answer our questions. COPYRIGHT 2001 STARTREKUK.COM. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. STAR TREK AND ASSOCIATED TRADEMARKS ARE COPYRIGHTED BY PARAMOUNT PICTURES CORPORATION. Visit the STARTREKUK.COM Web site Back |
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