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On Saturday, October 8th, 2022, upfront of the Star Trek Universe panel at New York Comic Con 2022, The Beat had the alternative to participate in a Star Trek: Prodigy roundtable dialogue with collection stars Brett Gray (Captain Dal R’el) and Ella Purnell (Gwyn).
During the first half of the first season of Prodigy, which was created by Kevin and Dan Hageman, we have been launched to Dal and Gwyn as they discovered themselves on the bridge of the USS Protostar. Before the Prodigy midseason premiere on October 27th, 2022, the actors fielded questions over Zoom about every little thing from working with veteran voice actors to their meals replicator preferences.
This roundtable has been edited for readability.
DIANA MARSH from Metal Life Magazine: How a lot enter do you may have in the approach that you simply voice your characters, or the approach they react to sure conditions?
ELLA PURNELL: It’s fairly collaborative with the Hagemans. I feel me and Brett are fairly related in that we each get in the sales space and get loopy with it, shifting round rather a lot. Usually, that’s the drawback, that I’m shifting round an excessive amount of.
I imply, they’re tremendous open. There’s quite a lot of dialog, and like I stated earlier than, the extra you do it, the extra you perceive your character and the extra you’re all on the identical web page. And the extra you begin to provide you with, “oh, maybe we can change the line to this,” or “do you really think this would work?” And it turns into extra of a dialog.
But when it comes to – I imply, they know the characters so effectively. And they know the overarching themes, and the place it’s going to go, with hopefully many extra seasons to return. So yeah. It’s positively very, positively very collaborative.
BRETT GRAY: I might completely agree. Totally completely completely agree. There’s a lot wiggle room to say, “maybe I would say it more like this,” or “maybe the line should be something like this.” They’re tremendous collaborative.
RYAN T. HUSK with The Seventh Rule podcast (co-hosted by Cirroc Lofton): Did you watch Star Trek: Deep Space Nine?
GRAY: To be trustworthy, I’ve not watched DS9, however it’s positively on my listing of the canon – I do know, I do know! I really feel like that’s blasphemy at this level. But no, to be trustworthy, Prodigy was my first introduction into Star Trek, and at first I believed, “I should do my research, and watch everything, and make sure that I’m up and ready for these type of things.”
But I’ve been having fun with a lot of the freedom of not having one thing to provide reference to, and I actually wished to return into this present and have a contemporary perspective on what the Star Trek world is perhaps like. Especially geared toward youthful audiences. I do know my very own vitality to be playful, and non-serious. I feel due to my lack of analysis and information, it’s embedded Dal with pure curiosity and marvel.
So the reply is: not but. But, inform [Cirroc] thanks, and I really like him.
HUSK: Outside of Prodigy, have solid members from different collection spoken to you or welcomed you?
PURNELL: Not but – and now that you simply’ve talked about it… No, I’m kidding.
No, no, I haven’t, however that is additionally my introduction to the Star Trek universe, so I didn’t know a lot about it. It’s very intimidating! I used to be anticipating extra the followers to – they’re the scary ones, they’re the ones I wish to impress the most! But everybody’s been extremely welcoming, so it’s been actually enjoyable, becoming a member of in.
GRAY: I really feel like the greatest reply I can say is Janeway (Kate Mulgrew). Kate has been so welcoming and so heat and so enjoyable to study from and be round. Whenever I get to see her, it’s at all times an excellent time. You know, I’ve gotten to do just a few Star Trek Days and some comedian cons, and there’s been folks sprinkled right here and there.
I at all times get a really heat welcome each time there’s one thing to do with Star Trek. It’s a lot enjoyable.
I acquired to fulfill LeVar Burton, which is loopy, as a result of you realize, on my sick days residence from college, I might watch Reading Rainbow, and it was such a vibe. It’s actually cool to be part of it.
AVERY KAPLAN with The Beat: If you had entry to a meals replicator, what meal would you ask it for first?
PURNELL: My favourite query.
Does it must be only one meal? It could be a bizarre one – don’t choose me. It could be Yorkshire puddings mixed with cacao e pepe. And if I get to decide on a drink it will be Diet Coke. Don’t choose me, I’m like a six-year-old in a girl’s physique. I don’t perceive both. And the dessert could be apple crumble.
GRAY: Wow. I would like, like, corn bread, collard greens, and, baked —
You know what? I might additionally ask the meals replicator if the meals might simply style like the stuff I would like, and may very well be stuffed with protein and vitamins and goodness. I’d get candy potatoes, perhaps snow crab legs with butter, and once more, apple pie to complete all of it off.
And perhaps a vanilla milkshake, however non-dairy – simply all love and vitamin C and all these issues.
ERIC SEUTHE II with Nerd News Social: When enjoying as a toddler, it may be troublesome to get in the mindset. How do current these youthful voices in the grownup conditions?
PURNELL: Like I stated, I’m a six-year-old trapped in a girl’s physique, so it’s not that onerous to – no, I’m kidding.
Gwyn is seventeen, and I really feel like after I was seventeen, I’m type of simply the identical as I’m now, only a bit extra naïve. Without having had the classes.
I really suppose that Gwyn is the reverse, as a result of once we meet her, she’s approach older than her years. She’s been stored beneath The Diviner (John Noble)’s thumb and made to do all these horrible issues, however she has to placed on this very chilly, exhausting exterior with a purpose to survive on Tars Lamora and acquire her father’s respect.
I feel for her, it’s really about ageing her down as the season progresses. Making her act her actual age, and let her hair down and have enjoyable. I’m very infantile and playful in actual life, anyway, so simply tapping into that aspect of myself. The naivety of studying for issues for the first time, which you overlook as you change into outdated and weathered.
GRAY: And jaded!
I might say the identical factor. I’m just about a toddler. So it’s simply tapping into these playful, high-energy moments of your self. And I might say, massive credit score to the writers and producers of the present, as a result of they do such a fantastic job crafting and creating the arcs for us, and the strains for us, so we are able to simply attempt to carry life to the moments and issues which are already written for us.
But yeah, it’s actually exhausting to be in the studio typically and picture your first time seeing the Delta Quadrant. But you simply must have enjoyable with it. I feel Ella and I are very related in that we do loopy issues and rise up and make faces and all the issues to get good efficiency. Just having enjoyable.
SEUTHE II: Would you be fascinated by enjoying an older model of your characters in reside motion in a future Star Trek undertaking?
GRAY: 100%. Paint me purple!
ELLA: Absolutely, that might be enjoyable.
GRAY: Lots of prosthetics, and I’m right here for it.
THE TOM C. from The Hashtag Show: Obviously you’re coming in with some veteran voice actors. What’s it like so that you can understand you’re enjoying with these phenomenal actors?
PURNELL: It’s wonderful. It’s an honor. But I feel I’ve most likely met John as soon as… I’ve met Kate just a few instances in press. But we file it on our personal in the sales space, so we don’t get to play reverse one another.
On the uncommon event, typically they’d have pre-recorded [Noble’s] strains, and I’d get to play off him. But earlier than I’d executed any voice over, I although we’d all simply be standing in a line in a single room. But apparently, that’s not the way it works.
But it’s nonetheless fairly wonderful while you watch the present, to listen to all the items come collectively, and every little thing slots in. It feels very overwhelming.
GRAY: Yeah, completely.
I’d say it’s at all times going to be an honor and a privilege while you get to work with people who find themselves so, so, so enormous. For me, it’s nearly studying at any time when I can. I get to do some actually enjoyable stuff, when it comes to enjoying with different characters and voices and different iterations of my character. I’m simply making an attempt to ensure that when they hear the present, and after they see the present, they really feel okay with us being there.
The first ten episodes of Prodigy season 1 are presently obtainable for streaming on Paramount+. The season 1 midseason premiere might be launched on October 27th.
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