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What is Kevin Sorbo like to work with?
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Kevin Sorbo is such a treat to work with, not to mention that he is totally
awesome as a friend and as a professional. Down to earth, humourous,
generous, and someone I love to hang out with off-set as well. That is the
clincher for asking an actor whether or not they truly like another actor...
would they hang out with them off-set? His wife, Sam, and their baby,
Braeden, are equally wonderful, and I am privileged to be able to call them
my friends.
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You've mentioned that, in working on Andromeda, you've had to
endure several hours of make-up and other preparations for the camera.
If, in the future, you had a chance to do another series involving a
similar routine, would it affect your decision about pursuing the role?
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No, it would not. I would like to believe that I have surmounted the
difficult part, and that really involved make-ups are no longer a stress.
That's not to say that some days aren't better than others... but I would not
turn down another role with involved make-up, provided it was deemed safe
and not in any way harmful to my skin. Getting to do roles that require me
to be involved in a long make-up process provides me with the starting
ground in the transformation into a character. Once the physical change has
taken place, it is much easier to act differently. The hard part is done,
and all it takes is for the actor to breathe some life into that character.
Also, it makes those human make-ups so enjoyable to prepare for - only one
hour! Yipee!
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How do you mentally relate to Trance, and how do you get yourself
in the right mindframe to portray her?
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With the purple Trance character, it wasn't all that hard once I knew where
the scripts were going. I just acted like a child in many ways... trying to
find the funnest way to do things. It became a challenge to me to find what
was the funnest (which sometimes became the funniest) way to do things in a
scene. I usually feed off of the energy of the other actors... and when I
did scenes with an antithetical character to Trance, like Tyr, I just found
that the best way to get into it was to see what I could do to break his
serious front and make him laugh. It worked sometimes. The new Trance is a
little more tough, and she doesn't waver like little purple Trance, so what
I do with her is more psychological. I stand still more (to give the
impression of certainty and stability), I look at people square in the eyes
when I am talking to them. I have also attempted to lower the register of my
voice - that was not so easy to keep up.
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Do you do your own stunt work? (e.g. the scenes in the museum in "A
Heart for Falsehood Framed") Do you enjoy doing it?
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Most productions are rather loathe to have actors do their own stunt work
completely unaided. I have done some explosion stuff, and I have done some
fighting and even portions of the museum scene in "A Heart for Faleshood
Framed". I was standing on that light above the museum floor (maybe ten
feet above the floor), but my stunt double (Leanne) did the jump from the
floor to the light.
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