Were good. Later he would play the first Cardassian, Gul Macet, in the episode titled "The Wounded" and a French-speaking poker player in the episode "Times Arrow" in 1991. Marc Alaimo (2010) 02.jpg 576 720; 148 KB. They were angry because I wasnt doing what they wanted me to do or expected me to do.". That to me is far more frightening than someone who is scowling and intimidating and in your face because it is much more insidious. 6. Well, I did a mime of a man being hanged. Before landing in the role of Dukat, Alaimo played several other characters in Star Trek. Julius Caesar, The Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Othello, She Stoops to Conquer, Waiting for Godot and Hamlet are just some of the countless productions in which Alaimo has appeared. With my situation, Damar was Dukats right hand. Alaimo said, "As an actor, of course, Ive played a lot of [criminals] and gangsters who did terrible things, but at this point in my life, I dont enjoy doing something that mean and despicable. Being in the makeup trailer was something out of science fiction, really. ", He continued: "So, playing that subtext, living with that subtext, presenting that subtext behind a mask of affability, of friendliness, of congeniality, I think that was both the challenge and the pleasure of the character.". Vic Fontaine was like what can I say? Jeffrey Combs: First of all, I would like to say right off the top, I dont usually share my time with interviews with anybody. A pinnacle performance. He said, I want you to read this play. The live event uses StageIt, with tickets priced as pay what you can.They will both also be doing a limited virtual meet and greet on June 10 with 10 slots being auctioned off. Marc Alaimo as Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Aliamo is a part of the Deep Space Nine documentary "What We Left Behind." They did a very good job with that, too. His television filmography includes many shows, including The Doctors, Kojak, Gunsmoke, Baretta, The Six Million Dollar Man, Starsky & Hutch, The Incredible Hulk, Quantum Leap, Wonder Woman, The Rockford Files, Hill Street Blues, and The A-Team. Alaimo is a classically trained theatre actor, and performed as part of the Marquette University Players and the Milwaukee Repertory Theater in the 1960s in everything from Shakespeare and the classics to world premiere productions. Tebok / Badar N'D'D, Dean of the Secret Order of Dirty Joke Writers, This page was last edited on 1 January 2023, at 03:23. Do you know the Spike Lee film, When Bajor was under Cardassian occupation many of its citizens joined an underground resistance group in the hopes of driving the aliens from their planet. I didnt even know this until much later on but they brought in someone else to do Gul Dukat. I had done theater with him and he suggested that I play Brunt. If any role came up, they gave it to him. What happened when we came together, we just worked really well off each other. Jeffrey Combs: I do. My teacher said to me, Stay after class. This was when she learned that he was very sweet, funny, and charming. More at IMDbPro Contact info Agent info Resume Born May 5, 1942 Add to list Awards 1 nomination Photos 20 Known for Total Recall 7.5 Everett 1990 Tango & Cash 6.4 Lopez 1989 They kind of cleared the brush away. Marc Alaimo's age is 80. In conversation I mentioned to her that I had a classical theatre background, so she had me come in to read for The Next Generation and I got the job, says the actor happily. Here are 6 Actors Who Regretted Being On Deep Space Nine (And 14 Who Adored It). Marc Alaimo (born 5 May 1942; age 80) is the actor who played Gul Dukat in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Even with so many other notable performances, Aliamo found his stride and fame when he began working with the infamous television franchise of Star Trek. You guys are often paired together at in-person cons, but this will be your first joint virtual appearance. Marc Alaimo's Professional Career With roles in feature films including The Last Starfighter, Naked Gun, The Final Insult, Tango & Cash, Total Recall and the 1988 film, The Dead Pool. As a result, Aliamo finished school with outstanding marks and was even the school president! On television he has guest-starred on such programs as The Six Million Dollar Man, The A-Team, Charlies Angels and Quantum Leap, while his feature film work includes roles in The Dead Pool, Tango & Cash, Total Recall and Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult. Some of his theatrical roles include Iago in Othello, Rodolpho in Arthur Miller's A View From the Bridge and Lucky in Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot. He is known for being a TV Actor. That much of the truth of Garak was like a glacier: you saw only the tip of the glacier, but then, underneath the tip, was the very complicated truth of his life. Dukat really was one of the most defining characters of the series, especially early on. Nana Visitor was excited to be cast as Major Kira, a strong, authoritative female lead character. Casey Biggs! I had no idea. I dont know what to do about it. And literally, almost every flipping scene I was in after that, I was drinking that shit. It was like playing a symphony for the 99th time. I would venture to say that a lot of the things that happened to Odo, they would not have been able to tell you at the beginning of the journey that thats where the journey was going to go. Glad you are here. Its like your first day of school and you dont know anybody, and for someone to come up like that really does release a lot of the anxiety. Jeffrey, Manny Coto has said when he planned for what could have been the fifth season of Enterprise he was planning on bringing you in more, possibly even as a regular. I know that when Manny came on as show and became showrunner in the fourth and last season the tone of the show and the number of episodes I was in upticked for sure. Ive had a pretty long career in a lot of different areas but Deep Space Nine has become this wonderful little feather in my cap and Im thankful for that. Let us know in the comment section! He is known for his villainous roles. Jeffrey Combs: Oh the one time I was an understudy. I passed three times. I remember Shran from Enterprise. They could have easily killed me off. Alexander Siddig had a rough time playing Julian Bashir, especially when the writers made Dr. Bashir genetically enhanced. I would like to continue to do that." Because of this there was never a real bond set up between the actress and myself, so the relationship we had was always sort of subjective. Kann dir das Wort drauf geben Jeffrey Combs as Brunt in DS9s Family Business. I totally understand.' It was pretty damn seamless and easy, wasnt it Case? She would have been in her mid-30s when the show began, and he would have been in his early 50s. He went on to portray Romulan Commander Tebok in The Neutral Zone, Cardassian Gul Macet in The Wounded and the high-rolling gambler Frederick LaRouque in Times Arrow. I havent seen her in a long time and we really dont have much of a relationship, so it was easy to relate to Ziyal in that way as well and I believe it worked for the character. He grew up on Deep Space Nine, and he still looks back fondly on his experience as a child actor on Star Trek. Both of you started mid-series on Deep Space Nine. On The Next Generation I never felt that I was part of the family, he says. ", The cast was also welcoming to their new castmate. It was thrilling from start to finish and certainly what made it very special in the annuls of Trek shows is all the interesting supporting characters it had like like Weyoun, Damar etc. By: Anthony Pascale Rachael Leigh Cook Says It Was A Huge Mistake To Pass On This Superhero Movie, Leonardo DiCaprios Worst Movie Is So Terrible It Has a 0% Rotten Tomatoes Score, This Rock Icon Was On An Episode Of DS9 And Many Star Trek Fans Had No Idea, The True Story of Why James Cameron Tried To Disown His First Movie, 5 Highly Underrated Futurama Episodes That Many Fans Have Overlooked. Alaimo has been playing characters in television shows since 1971. Credit where its due, this was thoroughly enjoyable. Casey Biggs: Yeah. Like the crafty chameleon which changes colours to blend in with its surroundings, Cardassian Gul Dukats demeanour can go from sadistic to sympathetic to sexy depending upon what best suits the situation. Much as Im keen to see new and diverse actors in Trek, both these actors have shown that they could make creative contributions. Well, thats Sisko, but Dukat doesnt have that sort of patience or moral discipline, I suppose, to try to always do the right thing. You have nothing to worry about. The show never took the easy way out when it came to situations, be they personal or political, and that provided us with a lot of great things to do as actors.". Star Trek: 6 Actors Who Regretted Being On Deep Space Nine (And 14 Who Adored It), The Last of Us Episode 8 Trailer Reveals Original Joel Actor's New Role, 1923's Teonna Actor Speculates On How She's Related To Yellowstone's Duttons, Happy Days' Original Title Would've Killed The Classic Show. He said, "I took a bit of persuading My concern was that I wouldnt be able to do the movies I wanted to do. Besides his work in Sacrifice of Angels and the aforementioned Indiscretion Alaimo is particularly pleased with his performance in the sixth-season episode Waltz. And both of you were on Enterprise. Im not the kind of actress who likes to be typecast or pigeonholed. Are there any other Star Trek: Deep Space Nine actors who adored or regretted their roles? Dukat eventually joins forces with the Dominion to fight against the Federation but the war ends up costing him more than he bargains for. It is the characters unpredictability that makes portraying him such a treat for actor Marc Alaimo. Casey Biggs: What was interesting is in the sixth season I was doing a play in New York and I took the part, but they didnt tell me I was written in for like thirteen episodes. I think if you start stepping into the feature world in Star Trek you become known to a wider audience as that and it becomes limiting.". After the passing of his father when Alaimo was young, he would become the breadwinner for his household. I cant think of a more three dimensional villain than Gal-Dukat in Trek history, the character had so many layers. Remember Jeff, you were in that scene. After graduating Alaimo moved to New York City where he won the part of Virgil Paris on the daytime soap opera Another World - Somerset. We all trust each other so well, we never know what is going to come out of our mouths on the stage. Max Grodenchik ended up playing Quark's kind-hearted brother, Rom, but he originally auditioned for the role of Quark himself. You can follow this conversation by subscribing to the comment feed for this post. I think more challenging was that the character whatever the character said is not what he meant. We have an expression: subtext. ", Colm Meaney got his start on The Next Generation before he was asked to continue the role of Miles O'Brien on Deep Space Nine, but it wasn't an easy choice for Meaney. The actor spent four years studying everything from ballet to voice technique to classical theatre with Jesuit priests at Milwaukees Marquette University. One such individual is Major Kira Nerys (Nana Visitor), who goes on to become Bajoran liaison to Starfleet and first officer aboard Deep Space Nine. Do you know the Spike Lee film Do The Right Thing? Were they picking up on something you guys were developing on your own? He can be evil, mean, charming, lovable, funny, vulnerable and, yes, even sexy. You never know whats going to happen when youre doing films or television. He added, "Later, for Gowron, I thought there were some really, really good scenes, especially some of the scenes with Avery [Brooks].". He has also patented a 3D chess set in 2002. When I first came on, there was a lot of comedy That wasnt who Gowron was, at all, but it certainly was what the Ferengi were, and they went off and developed the Ferengi extraordinarily well. He's already in makeup and I can't see him as anything else. I was there to tell you that your wife and your son had been killed. Casey Biggs: Yeah, you always want to play the opposite. I want to talk to you, so I did. Because of the prosthetics, though, I was fairly unrecognizable, so I just changed my voice to create a new character., Despite the fact that he had already appeared as a Cardassian on The Next Generation Alaimo was not the first choice when it came time to cast the part of Gul Dukat. Jeffrey Combs: Let me answer that. ", However, his role as Weyoun made more of an impact. Bless whoever said, We can clone him.. Thanks! It wasnt part of our plan. While the fans had mixed reactions about her character, de Boer had a great time joining the cast. Once its on film its done. I took so much from that. So when that thing came along about enhancing me, I felt they were really trying cynically to make me more like Data and I felt betrayed. Career [ edit] I can do one television movie and suddenly Ive performed in front of more people than all my years in the theatre, but the stage is still a magic place to be, muses Alaimo. While working on the series he appeared in the film "Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult." Highest rated movies And I did a lot of those. I dont know what kind of lover he would make, though. Theyre in range sir, fire. Then the director came up to me as I was sitting there pretending to push buttons and he says to me, They have big plans for this character. I thought, dont tell me that, I have four pounds of rubber on my face. Or something else? Marc Alaimo As Badar N'D'D. Marc Alaimo is best known for his astonishing role as Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's big-bad Gul . Jeff, you also played on Voyager. The Vorta are genetically altered to be the most sublime and friendly liaisons, diplomats, and easy-going. Jeffrey Combs: [laughs] Exactly! He explained, "It was kind of wonderful for an actor to have a character that looks like that. ", Jeffrey Combs has played five different characters on Star Trek, including Enterprise's Ambassador Shran. So is there someone else with specefic knowledge of theatre who wants to make an interview with Mr. Alaimo with further details about that subject? If youve got egg on your face, well, too bad. I get to express so many different aspects of myself in him that I dont always get a chance to do in real life. Avery and I still have a strong connection. Posted by: Alaimo and the Starland crew dined together after dark one night high atop the Sydney Tower skyscraper in its sumptuous 360 Bar & Dining space, a revolving restaurant. They called Ira in to say, How can we fix it? And Ira being Ira said they had to change everything. Alaimo was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and, according to him, although he did the best job of dying when he and his friends played war, he never thought about acting as a profession. After reading this, I'm curious to read more about this subject and like to read a following interview from someone who also knows much about all details and things of the classical theatre pursuits. Hans Beimler, Kamerad., great interview ds9 had so many great characters you could do 20 more of these interviews and not repeat yourselves the show is so fresh for me as im wrapping up a rewatch and coincidentally last night saw the episode where damar says the line about weyoun number 9. It was just amazing. Jeffrey Combs: It was a role of a lifetime for Marc Alaimo. About the moment he was going to kill me, I said, Marc, its me. Marc may have a sense of humor some times, but you never know when it is going to be there. Many believed he was even designed for jail. That was fun. 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