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Posted:
09:27:46 on September 18 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
Cinescape has posted an interview with actor John Billingsley, who talks about his role on ENTERPRISE, 'Dr. Phlox'.
“I’ll probably tell you some things that will be contradicted by later episodes,” he explains. “They haven’t really given me too much backstory on where my character comes from, or his species or even his culture. I’ve made up a story for myself, that I think justifies the behavior that I think they want. God only knows if any of it is going to jibe with what they eventually decide is the truth."
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“There is all the 22nd century technology,” explains Billingsley. “I am employing the latest scanners and gizmos and gadgets and what-have-you. All of that is in place. It’s just that his own background is in a kind of intergalactic folk medicine.
“It’s what you would get if you were in the backwoods of the Amazon -- a poultice of weeds, or a good leeching. He’s not beyond using anything that works, regardless of whether it’s based in technology or based in primitive folklore. Shaman is sort of a word I throw out kind of lightly, but in many ways he is. I think like anybody who is as much anthropologist as doctor, he is very respectful of myth and religion and folklore.
“I think I am sort of a pack rat and, as I said, something of an anthropologist, too,” the actor says with a laugh. “Any place I go, not only do I collect little knickknacks and curios for my own delectation, I am also gathering herbs and powders. The sense should be that this sickbay is teaming with life. I don’t know from the scenes I have done so far that that’s quite reading as strongly as I hope it eventually does. But maybe over the arc of seven years I will have accumulated."
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“The [producers] have been, from what I’ve been told, happy with what they’ve been getting,” says Billingsley. “I think we are certainly on the same page about who this guy is, and what he brings to the mix. I am sure they will give me stuff to do. You never can predict. It’s still too early for me to know how much latitude I will have to have strong input into my character.”
“They obviously have so much to do right now that they don’t really have a strong and clear backstory for who I am,” he adds. “My suspicion is that they are probably just making it up a little bit on the fly. I have some strong ideas of my own, and we’ll see if we are on the same page as we go along.”
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