Jess Bush on Majel Barret’s Nurse Chapel: The main thing that I took from Magel’s character and also from Majel herself, I think, is that she is, like, she’s pretty badass, like, the way that she got her way into Star Trek and what she wanted for Nurse Chapel, which probably wasn’t fully satisfied. I like that essence, and I think that I’ve brought that into the character. I also think that her Nurse Chapel was really dry and funny, and I would like to see that more explored in season two as well.
Babs Olusanmokun on Original Dr MBenga: Booker Bradshaw was a serious man. At least he looked like a serious man, and I wish he had done more episodes of Star Trek, but he, of course, went on to actually be a pretty successful television writer, so there was a lot going on there. I’m entrusted with his character, and I’m just flying into it, embracing it, and doing it in service of the past and in service of the future.
Ed Newman, Special Effects, Prehistoric Planet:
it was a great project to be involved in. Fascinating. And I learned a lot about prehistoric times working on it three years in the making. And it was as interesting as it was for me as it was for the paleontologists and everyone on the science side. We were kind of both learning from each other, really. It was a fun experience.
I joined the project, I think it was at the tail end of 2019. At that point, a lot of the stories were already pretty much hashed out in terms of there were animatic storyboards written, there was a script, and they were already into the sort of first phases of the previous process, which is kind of like a storyboard, but in three D and sort of drop mode. So I was kind of involved at that point and then in that early phase, that’s when you start building the characters and the various dinosauers and animals that we had to build and portray. So that was kind of the early phases of the project, was fleshing out the previous and the build side of.
Jennifer Reader, writer/director Perpetrator
I definitely set out to make unexpected moves in most of my films. Not in a way that would ever be frustrating or confusing to an audience. Although I know that my films can be both frustrating and confusing to some audiences, which is fine. I stand by the statement that my films are not for everybody. But the fans who find these films, I think, are really very special people. But, yeah, I like making unexpected moves and I’ve done that since the very beginning. So it’s not as though I mean, really from the beginning of my career, making more kind of like short experimental works. So it’s a kind of pattern or process or way of telling a story that has always been with me, but that I’ve been able to, with each film, sort of either get better at or even change it up a little, try new things, take some new risks. The worst thing that somebody could say about my films would be that they are sort of expected or boring or predictable or not risky. Not a challenge to even myself as a storyteller.
Tony Tellado
