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Prevue: |
What was your favorite aspect of Babylon 5?
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Mira: |
Joe wrote this really extraordinary complex and complicated character.
The other secondary thing was the cast and crew. At the end there
was a lot of tears. These two aspects were important.
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Prevue: |
Do you still get together?
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Mira: |
Some of us do, yes.
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Prevue: |
What was your least favorite aspect of Babylon 5?
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Mira: |
It was hard to deal with the makeup on several different levels.
I developed a problem with my eye that is not going away. There
were things like that, that I had to conquer everyday.
In terms of the future, the whole science fiction genre is restricting.
Then on top of that, with the makeup on your face, since the whole
American culture is a very visual one, it's very restricting in
terms of your professional future. When you do your job incognito
with the makeup on, I'm still not known to the outside world. The
makeup worked against me in that respect. Although I think I did
some okay work in those five years.
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Prevue: |
You did some wonderful work, at least I think so and I'm sure a
lot of others do too. What was the funniest thing that happened
to you on the set?
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Mira: |
I can't pin it down to one thing, we were always laughing. I
can't answer that.
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Prevue: |
How about one of the most dramatic moments?
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Mira: |
That's kind of impossible too, over the five years there were
so many things. When we were shooting the last episode of the fourth
season, which we thought, was going to be the last episode of the
whole series. The drama of that overlaid with the drama of everyone
saying goodbye was very emotional.
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Prevue: |
Tell us about what it was like to take Delenn through so many changes.
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Mira: |
She went through so many changes. All of the characters that
Joe wrote went through changes. I think that is the beauty of Babylon
5 that nothing is what it seems. That good guys become bad guys
and visa versa. Delenn even went through a physical change. She
was changing all the time. I was 130 years, I went into the rubber
thing. She's vulnerable, but she's strong. She dignified, but she's
emotional. You give me one characteristic and she had it and the
opposite. It was never boring.
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Prevue: |
Now that you don't have the early morning makeup calls, what's in
the future for Mira?
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Mira: |
I need to calm down and get to get into another mindset. Live
for a while. Rest in the garden like I'm doing and read, read, read.
Which I will be doing for a short while, then I will see what's
is out there.
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Prevue: |
Tell us about your new CD.
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Mira: |
Yes, it's out there. It's a conceptual CD-Rom work that I did
with my husband called Songs from Movies
That Have Never Been Made. It can be ordered from Infinite
Visions at 1-800-755-8735.
(Note: Unfortunately the CD is no longer
available, best bet is to check ebay)
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Prevue: |
Have you have any contact with any former associates from your former
country?
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Mira: |
No, I think about them all the time, but you have to draw the
line somewhere and decide to go forward with your life. That's something
I had to do for myself.
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Prevue: |
Any words for your fans?
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Mira: |
I'd like to thank for five years of respect and affection and
support. We wouldn't have had a show without them.
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