Sometimes I influenced Kira, and sometimes Kira influenced me into examining parts of myself, where my beliefs play into what Kira was confronted with. I wonder if that experience of playing Kira stayed with you, and if she was an inspiration to you as well? Nicole: Kira was so inspiring to so many women because she’s a fully fleshed out character who wasn’t taking shit from men on the show, and who was in a commanding leadership role. So it was this huge opportunity to run with something that was really pushing the envelope.

So that’s what I was auditioning for and then here came this script, and it didn’t read like a woman.īut really, I need to say, it’s more that it didn’t read like a woman that was portrayed in television at the time. When my hair was light blonde I’d get the bimbo roles, and those were fun for a while too because at least they were characters. Or I was a mom, or I was a bimbo - I played a lot of bimbos, believe it or not. Mostly my clothes were such that either I would be a mouse, which meant I was going to get killed probably, or I would be a vamp, and that most likely meant that I was the murderer.

Nana Visitor: At the time when it was pilot season I would load my car up with clothes because I would have maybe five different auditions for five different pilots. Could you talk a bit more about meeting Kira? You talk about how one of the things that you immediately liked about Kira was that on the page, she didn’t read like a woman – there was a kind of swagger to her that wasn’t there in other women characters you had read. Be sure to listen to the full episode of Highly Logical here, which also includes conversations with DS9 showrunner Ira Steven Behr and co-star Andrew Robinson (Garak).Īngelo: I wanted to start off with something you say early in the film about how you first encountered this character.

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