"And they're fun - they really know how to have a good time together," she added gleefully. From the beginning made me feel like they were lucky to have me." I remember Rick Berman saying to me, 'We knew five minutes into your reading that you were it, so we started doing rewrites with you in mind.' It doesn't get any better than that, with people saying, we really want you to be here. Murphy described the cast as "welcoming," especially Frakes: "Jonathan was in my corner from my first audition. I was lucky in that this woman and her people were very much outsiders - they had by choice gone to this world - so you use it." If I had to come in and play their long-lost pal, or replace somebody that needed to be represented in a way that suggested them having a long history, that would have been harder. But then I said, I kind of can't lose here, because this woman's an outsider in this situation. "For them it was very much like a reunion - these films have turned out to be that, the last two of them, since they left doing the show. While she found the experience of working with the cast to be highly enjoyable and particularly liked Stewart and director Jonathan Frakes, Murphy noted that she was worried at first about coming into a cast which has been together for more than ten years. "So there may have been a very practical consideration with the extras, balanced by the fact that - I don't know, they didn't want it to stand out in close-up when I was making out with Patrick!" Murphy admitted to "a couple of kisses" and said the script left room for Anij and Picard to meet again. "I think also they said that unless you're in close-up it looks like you're dirty - somebody wipe that girl's face!" added the actress with a laugh. The producers wanted a simple, subtle alien marking, in part because of the hundreds of extras who had to be made up as aliens to represent Anij's community. "They had just this little skin pattern on my temples that was airbrushed on, just coming off the temple, and the coloring was different." "From looking at some photos of different characters from the different shows, it looked a little bit like.what's that character who just left one of the shows?" Terry Farrell's Jadzia Dax? "The Trill, that's right. "It was actually very pretty," she recalled. Murphy also connected to Anij, whom she described as "a complicated, very strong, sensual, interesting woman." Since she was identified as an alien, the actress did wonder whether she would be getting herself into hours of prosthetic makeup, "but when they described her in the script she just sounded like a very earthy-looking natural woman of human appearance, a member of an alien race with some distinguishing skin pattern." The producers did not decide until two days before Murphy started shooting just what the distinctive alien marks would look like, and the makeup artists tested several prototypes on the actress, but she never did wear prosthetics. And the themes that drive the storylines are very admirable. It is really very well-done and there are some wonderful actors in it. "I rented First Contact and Generations, I wanted to see what that world was, and I found myself very engaged. I thought, ooh, this is a very interesting woman," she reported. "They would not give us a complete script, but they sent over a good portion - all the material which dealt with this character, just so I could get a sense of who she was. Though she had seen only bits and pieces of the original series and none of the films, Murphy was excited when her agent sent over the audition material. Her planet is being threatened, however, because its regenerative qualities have made it coveted by other races when Starfleet washes its hands of the situation, Picard and his crew risk their lives and careers to protect her people. In the ninth Trek feature film, Murphy plays Anij.a woman who is not only several hundred years old and in a highly spiritual state of serenity, but who gets to romance Picard. I know that it means a lot to a lot of people, this work, so I just try to do my best to deal with it very respectfully." "The cast said, 'Oh, Donna Murphy, you don't know what you got into!' And because I just came home, without the film having been released yet, I don't really know. "I really was very naive about Star Trek - still am, I think," the bi-coastal actress laughed this fall from her New York apartment. Two-time Tony Award winner Donna Murphy may not have been widely known to Trekkers prior to Star Trek: Insurrection, but she's had her own experience with cult following as the star of the Broadway musical Passion.an emotion very familiar to fans.
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