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With Nicole De Boer
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Nicole De Boer is the actres who portrayed Ezri Dax, whom she played in the seventh season of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. We are pleased to present this interview with Nicole De Boer The interview was conducted at our Star Trek Convention Here in Adelaide, South Australia on October 15 2006 If another season of Deep Space Nine was made, what would you like to see happen to Dax? Well, if they had another season that would be exciting. Now that we’ve seen Dax, her whole arc was as you know, getting the symbiant and not being prepared at all for it, so obviously she’s turned out very uncertain of herself. Really coming into her own she’s sort of goofy and by the end of the season she had more confidence definitely. But that was only the beginning of it. That was just the tip of it so if we did another season I would definitely like to see her more in control and really using these other lives she has because of the symbiant really being able to manipulate it to her benefit and use the knowledge of all these people that she has before her in the symbiant to her advantage, now I think that’d be really exciting, there are so many different things we could do with that. Did you find it hard to join the final season of Deep Space Nine? Everybody asks me that and not all. I think what I really liken it to is sort of, they were like one big happy family and it was just like they adopted somebody you know? So they just had to welcome me into their already well knit family. So it was very easy to melt into that because everybody was so used to each other you know they had been together for many years and just bringing me into it and also I have lots of training from doing guest episodes before so you have to get really good at coming into a varied situation and fitting in as best you can. In the other series you have worked on have you been welcomed as well or has it been more different? No. Pretty much it has always been pretty good I mean up until I did the dead zone I had never been on a series that I had been on more than 1 year, either it was ending, in the case of Deep Space Nine or else it just didn’t get picked up again. But I think it’s just something you get good at as an actor as being able to fit in well. As an actor was it hard to develop a character which had already existed, in part, for six years? There are pros and cons to coming into a situation like that because somebody’s already established it for you which is good on one hand you already have a base to sort of work from and of course with this character as I said I wasn’t taking over the part of Jadzia I was taking the over the part of Dax and Jadzia would only be one of many characters now you know but I was still Ezri. A new character. It’s detrimental because people have pre-conceived ideas and people are loyal to the Jadzia character so that can be hard but I think it had good and bad things to it. If you got a call to do a star trek musical would you take the role and why or why not? (Laughs). Star Trek musical? It could happen. Yeah it totally could happen. Uh no its not really my thing that's more of my husbands thing, singing you know I’m not an awful singer but I’m a good tap dancer so I don’t know maybe if I could have some of that you know that dubbing that they do with Britney Spears and stuff you know so I could have someone else actually singing for me then I could handle it but yeah I think that would be fun so long as they didn’t use my own voice. You seemed to mention psychology quite a few times on the convention stage. Are you interested in that area at all? Yeah definately, I mean I thought about studying it but I think as an actor you have to I mean you have to be thinking consistently about why people do what they do and psychology of people and how people’s mind works and different characters and what leads a person to behave a certain way I mean I think you just sort of do that partly intuitively as an actor, its what you want to explore right. We thank Nicole for her interview and wish her all the best on The Dead Zone and her future endevours. Thanks to our beautiful interviewer, Ms Maryanne Scutella, for the interview.  |
