Jeri Ryan / Kate Mulgrew Interviews 

There are 2 new interviews on the web with Jeri Ryan and Kate Mulgrew. There are snippets of each with links to their respective sources below:  Jeri Ryan:   As the sexiest alien since Captain Kirk fell for that dancing green gal back in '68, Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine is one of the most popular characters in the venerable Star Trek pantheon. With Star Trek: Voyager soon to complete its run, however, and acutely aware of her predecessors' troubles with typecasting, Ryan's determined to be more than just another number.  [...]   Mr. Showbiz spoke with Ryan as she demonstrated her ability to conquer the aftereffects of a red-eye flight from Los Angeles to a frigid Manhattan, N.Y., as well as the efforts of her hotel to put her in a permanent deep freeze by checking her into an unheated room. "It took me two and a half hours to be moved," she said while having her hair and makeup done for a TV appearance. Nonetheless, she was game for our interview, talking about vampiric seduction, the notorious bodysuit, and her relationship with her boyfriend, Star Trek: Voyager producer Brannon Braga. 

Article:  http://mrshowbiz.go.com/interviews/576_1.html    

Kate Mulgrew:  Kate Mulgrew is keen to know what visitors make of the set, and the show in general. Through out her seven years on Star Trek: Voyager, Mulgrew has listened to the fans and answered criticisms when they?ve been presented. In some ways, this sounds like a description of her character?s command style. So how much of Captain Kathryn Janeway comes from Mulgrew?   ?A funny thing is happening,? she muses. ?I  think last year and the year before, I would have said to you that I thought I was bringing a great deal of myself to Janeway. But now I see that the evolution of the character has been far more...? She pauses, considering how best to describe it, and finally decides on, ?. . .mysterious, than I could have imagined. Now I see that in fact it was Janeway pushing through for Janeway all the time, and using Mulgrew only very discreetly.?   What sort of things specifically? ?Relaxation and confidence,? she explains. ?I think those are probably more trademarks of Kathryn Janeway. She would steal from Mulgrew a demeanor, a sense of energy, occasionally a sense of stillness, if it were important. I?ve certainly endowed Janeway with Mulgrew?s humor, although I?ve had to confine myself, because in the end her humor is different from my own. She?s a very different woman.?  

And where would Mulgrew like to see this woman travel during her final year on screen? ?One could easily say that I?d like to see some of these loose ends tied up, but life being what it is ? and by that I mean messy ? I suppose many of them won?t be. However, I would like to see, certainly by the close of this season, all of the emotional underpinning brought to the fore and shared; how deep [the crew?s] allegiance to one another really is on an emotional as well as a scientific and diplomatic level. I would like it to be illustrated how poignant my love for each of them is and how specific each relationship is. I don?t know if there will be time for that, but that?s a pipe dream." 

Article:  http://geocities.datacellar.net/totallykate/stmg101/stm101a.html
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