By Chris Snowlings
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Star Way: The next generation helped turn Jonathan Frax into something sexy. After all, his ricker always threw a commanding figure, and his beard gave him some bad boy charm after the 1st season. While the fans certainly loved to look at the beautiful face of the richest, the actor did not understand how easy he was, until he had to wear another face. The episode of the 3rd season « Who watches the observers », which put Jonathan Frex in some alien makeup, and later he confessed that it made him evaluate what Michael Dorn (who played the clingan -tank) experienced every day.
Jonathan Frex gets Michael Dorn’s treatment
If you are wondering why Jonathan Fresx suddenly admires Michael Dorn after that, you just need to look at the complex makeup of the latter in each episode. Dorn looks appropriate strange Like the Clengo warrior, but to achieve this species he had to spend a lot of long hours in a makeup chair every morning. Compared to saying, Fresx and other human actors had to spend much less time, preparing because they just need to worry about hair and makeup, not … gigantic ridges on the forehead.
According to Jonathan Frex« My experience with the Mintan gave me great gratitude for the fact that (Michael) Dorn is experiencing every morning. » In « who watches the observers », the fault of Starfleet Tech and the wiping of memory went badly, led to a primitive alien who told his people that Picard was God. At one point, the ricker is changed to look like one of these natives and changed to the surface to gather Intel, and make the actor look properly alien that he felt the taste that his coast was regularly experiencing.
Later, Jonathan Fresx estimates that « Makeup took something like two and a half hours », which still did not match that Michael Dorn was regularly experiencing (in detail about it soon). But part of the why actor Riker hated it so much, it was not the time itself, but the fact that he did not sit « very well » and becomes « very unwanted » while in the seat. It makes sense, really … Fresx, like the character he plays, is used to take action, not sit still and expect something to happen.
But how many two and a half hours of Jonathan Frax, who put on alien makeup, are compared to what Michael Dorn has passed? Initially, it took Dorny seven hours a day to get his Clengo games, the process that was later shortened to about three hours, which was just a little longer than necessary to make the Frax look like an alien. Later, The stellar path Makeup artists got to the fact that they could put everything on the dorn for about an hour that made it Deep space nine Days of shooting much easier than otherwise.
Episodes « Star Way » often ending with our favorite learning lessons, and « who looks at the observers », Frex himself learned something behind the scenes. After praising how good the makeup team made him look like a resident of the Pass III, he came to the conclusion: « I will make an accidental mission, but I am very grateful that I have my face. » Given that after all these decades, Fresx remained a sexy icon for fans, we can say that they are as grateful for his face as he is
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