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Jolene Blalock on typcasting |
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Written by Derek Kessler on
Friday, 29 February 2008
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 With her role as the Vulcan Subcommander turned Starfleet Commander T'Pol on Star Trek: Enterprise as her first big part, model/actress Jolene Blalock has fallen victim to a phenomenom that has dogged many a Trek star: typecasting. You make your break in the sci-fi genre, and it seems that's where you're going to stay. While Blalock has had a few non-sci-fi parts since the end of Enterprise, she's found herself yet again in a science fiction flick, this time starring as Captain Lola Beck in Starship Troopers III.
Speaking this week at Wondercon in San Francisco with the rest of the Starship Troopers III cast, Blalock described Beck as "a no-nonsense staraight shooter who shoots from the hip, but also has a heart of gold."
Taking questions from the crowd, one directed at Blalock asked why she's seen in so many science fiction roles. While many actors would be unhappy with the typcasting that seems to haunt Trek actors, Blalock was more upbeat about the situation: "The reason I've done a lot of science fiction is because my first big job was Star Trek, [so] a lot of the offers i get are science fiction. The universe shines down on me, in a psychobabble way. That's what's inside me, and so that's what the universe offers me."
You can read more of the report on Starship Troopers III (which this time around stars Casper Van Dien again) over at io9.
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