| Kate
Mulgrew |
CAPT. KATHRYN
JANEWAY |
On the import of the character:
Let's be frank about it - I was going
to make a very big statement about my gender. [She] is free of all those
shackles [associated with gender] and there is a wonderful freedom in that
because then your humanity can really take wing. And the canvas becomes
much, much larger than anything you could have dreamt of because there
are no limits. I thought they were very brave and pioneering to choose
a woman as a captain, and I intended to endow her with as many levels and
colors as I possibly could. On playing
the part: The first couple of seasons
were tough. It seemed to me everything was analyzed to an inch of its being,
and then when they saw I could not only command the ship but do it with
a degree of aplomb, they began to give me some slack. That is when the
true creative process began, and I am enjoying it enormously. On
growing in the role: I have grown as an
actress, in my attentive risk-taking and in my ability to concentrate for
long stretches of time on very difficult, highly technological material.
I've been given this marvelous laboratory to work in every day, and I really
never lose sight of that. |
