![]() On a scale of one to 10, how much did you hate the makeup? Or did it help get into the character? Or both? She was a helper who happened to be an artist. What does somebody with that kind of tenderness do with their life? They're either an artist or an activist, or a helper. ![]() There wasn’t a lot of that type of thing on the show, especially that season.Īnd I also think that's when you saw her goodness. Here's this war-torn arc playing out on DS9, and the character was… an artist. Now, it had to be Ira Behr who came up with the idea of making her an artist, which I always thought was a brilliant touch. She was an artist, and she was a dreamer. That's how I feel Tora Ziyal lived her life. It was just, “Why can't we all love each other?” If more people have something they loved and believed in, that brought community and passion and compassion, I think we'd have a whole different world. It wasn’t really like, "I'm this," or, "I'm a half-breed. I played a young girl that wanted her father and this woman that was, for all intents and purposes, her inspiration and mentor… she just wanted them to love each other. How tricky was it to play half-Bajoran, half-Cardassian? I was like, "Wow, she's got so much love in her. But it's yours." So I was like, "Wow, that's pretty amazing." It was funny, because I thought I made a big mistake when I saw the way everybody else prepared. So I left, and my agents called me and said, "We don't know what you did, but you got the job. I was the first one to go in and meet the producers. Because I saw her as a real innocent, peace-loving kind of… child, POW, wants peace on earth. ![]() When I walked in, everybody else was in combat boots and fatigues and muscle shirts, and I was wearing a sundress. I went in and I had had my take on Tora Ziyal. I know that they were meeting a lot of different A-list actors. ![]() When I went in, actually, they had called me and they said the producers wanted to meet me. So when this came along as an opportunity, did you go back and watch the previous actresses? Well, I watched The Original Series, and that was it. Even though it was a tough job with the makeup and whatnot, I loved that character so much.īefore you did that, how familiar or not were you with Star Trek? This was a blast because I got to not only embrace a community that I haven't been in the middle of before, but it was so much fun to see that they loved Tora Ziyal as much as I loved Tora Ziyal, you know? That we were all sad to lose her. Fan fest type of things, and I would do appearances all around America. When I was on As the World Turns, I used to do these every weekend. Well, this is the first one I’ve ever done for Star Trek. We are here with you at Star Trek Las Vegas. ![]()
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