By Chris Snellgrove | Published
Star Trek: The next generation helped to transform Jonathan Frakes into something of a sexual symbol. After all, his Riker has always threw a commanding silhouette, and his beard gave him a bad boy’s charm after a season 1 of the treat. While fans certainly liked to look at Riker’s beautiful face, the actor did not realize how easy he had until he had to put a different face completely. The episode of season 3 “Who Watchs The Watchers” put Jonathan Frakes in an extraterrestrial makeup, and he later admitted that it made him appreciate what Michael Dorn (who played the Klingon Worf) crossed every day.
Jonathan Frakes gets treatment Michael Dorn
If you wonder why Jonathan Frakes suddenly admire Michael Dorn after that, just look at the elaborate makeup of the latter in each episode. Dorn looks properly foreign as a Klingon warrior, but to make this look, he had to spend long hours on the makeup chair every morning. Compared to speaking, Frakes and the other human actors had to spend much less time preparing because they simply needed to worry about hair and makeup and not … giant foreheads.
According to Jonathan Frakes, “my experience with being a Mintakan gave me a great appreciation for what [Michael] Dorn spends every morning. In “Who Watchs The Watchers”, Starfleet Defective Tech and a wiping of memory hurt a primitive foreigner tell his people that Picard was a god. At one point, Riker is modified to look like one of these natives and radiated on the surface in order to gather information, and to make the actor properly foreign allowed him to have a taste of what his Costar has regularly endured.
Jonathan Frakes later estimated that “makeup took something like two and a half hours”, which still does not do what Michael Dorn has regularly crossed (more about this soon). But part of the reason why Riker’s actor hated it was not the moment himself, but the fact that he is not always seated “very well” and becomes “very agitated” during the siege . It makes sense, really … Flakes, like the character he plays, is used to acting rather than sitting and waiting for something to happen.
But how half the two and a half hours of Jonathan Frakes put in extraterrestrial makeup to what Michael Dorn lived? Originally, it took Dorn seven hours a day to put his game of Klingon, a process which was then shortened at about three hours, which was just a little more time than we had to do resemble frakages to an extraterrestrial. Later, the Star Trek makeup artists arrived at a point where they could put everything on Dorn in about an hour, which made his own New deep space shooting days a lot easier than they would be otherwise.
Star Trek episodes often end with our favorite lessons learning characters, and with “Who Watchs The Watchers”, Frakes himself learned something behind the scenes. After praising the quality of the makeup team, he made him look like a Mintaka III resident, he concluded “I will occasionally Mintakan, but I am very grateful to have my own face. »» Since Frakes has remained a sexual icon for fans after all these decades, it is just to say that they are just as grateful for your face as
