Posted:
07:56:54 on August 30 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
Zap2it has posted an interview with 'Roswell' executive producer Jonathan Frakes, who talks about the series's fourth episode, "Secrets and Lies", which will pit the show's teen alien 'Max' into an ENTERPRISE audience with Frakes posing as the director.
"This was the brainstorm of Ron Moore and Jason Katims," says Frakes. "They said, 'Since you're directing, would you mind playing yourself in the episode? And while you're at it, would you mind playing yourself as if you're directing an episode of 'Enterprise'? And while you're directing the episode of 'Enterprise,' do you think we can get somebody from the cast of 'Enterprise'? And while you're at that, would you call (" Trek" executive producer) Rick Berman and Paramount and see if it's OK?'"
Originally, the idea was to enhance the value of the crossover by including ENTERPRISE star Scott Bakula, but Frakes explains that Bakula wasn't interested.
"He thought it was too early to break the fourth wall," says Frakes. "Bakula is not going to do it."
Breaking the fourth wall is an acting technique whereby the actor may turn and address the camera directly, breaking the fiction of the narrative by moving out of character (Woody Allen employs this technique often).
At present, Frakes doesn't know whether or not he'll have an "Enterprise" cast member in the episode, which begins shooting on Friday. "I don't know that you'd get any bang out of anybody but Bakula," he says, "because Bakula is at least a TV star. These other guys (in the cast) are about to become TV stars. So I think we can get as good a laugh out of me directing Jason as Max in the audition."
http://tv.zap2it.com/news/tvnewsdaily.html?20271.
(Thanks to Lee Jamilkowski for this submission).
