Johnathan Frakes
Johnathan Frakes
Jonathan Scott Frakesis an American actor, author, and director. Frakes is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent films. Frakes also hosted the television series Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction, challenging viewers to discern his stories of fact-based phenomena and fabricated tales. In June 2011, Frakes narrated the History Channel documentary Lee and Grant. He was also the voice actor of David Xanatos in the Disney...
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When I was just acting on the show, I learned my lines, went to sleep, then woke up and went to work. Now it's sort of become an obsession. I like the success. I'm thrilled with the way things have gone-but my life was simpler 10 years ago.
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Our strong teen-girl demographic attracts a lot of the boys as well, so I suspect that they'll let us continue to create the show with a style that has already gotten us into the third season anyway.
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Outside of that, the concept of the show has been to explore our aliens' background.
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I think by the end of the first season it was pretty clear that the numbers, if you will, were greater than the projected numbers, and that we were going to be around for awhile.
interest science virtually
Ironically, I had virtually no interest in science fiction.
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I think in general, you need a bad guy to have someone to root against and I think kids understand a story more clearly if there's an evil element for them to cheer against and to root for the good guys.
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I think the problem with the soaps is that because they make 280 shows a year, the writing suffers.
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It evolved, in all honesty, into a show much more about the mythology of the aliens than about the angst about teen romance.
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I wasn't surprised, because I know that there's been that kind of loyalty about Star Trek, historically, certainly in the original seasons; the original series was picked up partially because of fan support.
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I was a psych major until I saw how much fun the actors were having, and I decided I'd transfer over to the theater arts department.
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When I produced Roswell, it was clear to me that my value to that show was as a director, because I was not a writer, and I wasn't a line producer.
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I have a lot of kid in me, and I have kids of my own and I like the energy.
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I always was - and still am - somehow able to use the amount of money that we have to make the project.
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If it was a guest part, you'd only go in once and read for the producer and director, and you'd know the next day if you were going in to work.