[trek_dude]

Dominic Keating gave a interview on BBC Radio Five Live earlier. It has been posted online and you can listen to it here

[Inga]

Thanks for the info!
Unfortunatly my computer won't run it. Can someone please tell what he said?
Thanks,
Inga

[windsong]

Thanks for posting this Dude - I will endeavour to listen this week! Did he say anything interesting?

[nebula]

Inga, on Aug 9 2005, 06:01 PM, said:

Thanks for the info!
Unfortunatly my computer won't run it. Can someone please tell what he said?
Thanks,
Inga

Thanks for posting this, trek_dude.

I listened a couple of days ago and can only remember bits. I'll have to go back and have another listen.

He said he's done one film which might be shown at Sundance. This was the Jonathan Winters piece. He is about to film a horror movie and is going to auditions. He said he'd done one for a proposed new BBC comedy based on 24 hour news.

He said that although he understood some members of the cast were upset with TATV, he didn't mind it so much. By then, they already knew they were cancelled and he was looking to the future.

He mentioned his fanclub - DKEB.

The interviewer brought up a film he was in: 'Almost Famous'. DK said he had been in it, but his scenes were cut. He didn't find out that they had been cut until he watched the premier with his then girlfriend. The studio had even sent a limo to take him to the premier! He said that is what Hollywood is like - very tough!

I'm sure others can add some more, but that is all I can recall at the moment.

It was very interesting listening. He is very funny and clever

[windsong]

Well I listened last night and made a few notes so here are the things that weren’t covered above. Here you go.....

Dominc talked about the cancellation saying it was sad – they had expected seven seasons and indeed had been signed for seven. But he said that at least they had crossed the line of syndication and he would be remunerated accordingly!

The interviewer said he thought that Dominic was the first Englishman since Patrick Stewart to play a main part in Star Trek and Dominic didn’t contradict him (Alexander Siddig?) – he said he had met Patrick and did a quick impersonation.

He was asked how he ended up in Hollywood and said that it happened after he met a girl whilst out on holiday – she told him to come back and he thought ‘why not’. She was ‘crazier than a long tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs’ so it didn’t last a Hollywood second but he made contacts got a manager and stayed.

Obviously he was asked about TATV and he really wasn’t that down on it like some of his fellow cast members were. He didn’t get his knickers in a twist and figured it was ok for B&B to want to wind up their 17 year watch with the flagship show. He’ll miss his big trailer opposite where they shot Sunset Boulevard though.

A listener asked whether the cast worried about Enterprise getting ‘darker’ and losing the original ethos of Trek. Dominic reckoned it was all down to marketing the show and today’s audience and was probably needed. He felt they got themselves into a bit of deep water during seasons one and two (he didn’t elaborate on this). They were aiming for a younger audience – as everything in Hollywood does – and there was some worry that the established fanbase wouldn’t follow. He could see the point another listener raised about the finale being detrimental to the characters that had been developed in Enterprise but he knew about the cancellation by the time they filmed it so he had moved on.

Dominic stated he would eat his hat if Enterprise returned and if it did the paw marks of Les Moonves would be all over it (obviously his perception is that Moonves is still the man with the power.)

Someone stated that Patrick Stewart had never said no to another series of TNG – Dominic just said that was the response of a wise jobbing actor.

He enjoys conventions and has been places that he wouldn’t have otherwise seen. He doesn’t dress up for them though (in uniform) as Paramount own all that. The fans are great – he mentioned his own cult following, the DKEB (Dominic Keating Estrogen (shouldn’t that be oestrogen?) Brigade) and the fact that he is doing a con this weekend (in Birmingham).

Another question – did any of the male cast members have a crush on Jolene Blalock - Dominic said that one or two might have done but he had been with the same girl since the start so he couldn’t answer that. He said he might have looked at her a bit weird a couple of times.

He mentioned that an idea for story he put forward did make it to the ‘table’ but got no further – B&B liked to keep their stranglehold on what actually went on.

The film he made that may go to Sundance is called Certifiably Jonathan. The horror movie he is about to make is called Hollywood Kills and the BBC show he auditioned for is called Broken News. He doesn’t mind where he works – in fact might like a bit of time in England after eleven years in Hollywood.

He is happy with his action figure – as far as he was concerned as long as they got the hair and the crotch right he was good to go.

He kept on insisting he was 27!! As usual he was very funny and relaxed – I guess you will be getting him back in LA sometime next week!

[~Lady Trekki~]

Cool!

Thanks for posting this for us windsong...it was very informative and I enjoyed it a lot.

[ChristopherPike]

It's great to hear that Dominic isn't phased by the series cancellation.

I hope his BBC audition works out, as it would be great to see him find work on British TV.

Perhaps a guest role in Doctor Who... he would be good as his arch nemesis: The Master!

[nebula]

windsong, on Aug 12 2005, 08:20 AM, said:

Another question – did any of the male cast members have a crush on Jolene Blalock - Dominic said that one or two might have done but he had been with the same girl since the start so he couldn’t answer that. He said he might have looked at her a bit weird a couple of times.

I believe what he actually said was that he couldn't honestly answer that!!

[Rosmirafedele]

Probably ALL the male cast members had a crush on Jolene!
She is a beautiful lady...

Nice interview! Thanks for posting it.

[NX01]

Good Old Dom

He rocks so much!