I remember watching him work and thinking of all the prep work he must’ve done beforehand, in order to have things work out impeccably on set.
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He knows what he wants and how to achieve it quickly. How was it to work with Director Joe Menendez? The whole thing felt like a dream! My ten-year-old self would never believe he would get to play a Vulcan on Star Trek later in life. We were both having a truly amazing time on an imagination playground, so to speak. I also remember looking at actress and friend Chuti Tiu, who plays my Vulcan partner in the scene, and talking about never wanting to leave the set. Eduardo Roman and Chuti Tui on the set of “Mercy” (Eduardo Roman)
That’s how you know everyone is working on the same page. They immediately turned to me in astonishment and said that that was what they were going for. While on set in the woods, I was standing next to Director Joe Menendez and Director of Photography Crescenzo Notarile, right before our first takes, and I mentioned to them that the whole atmosphere they had come up with the lights and the darkness in the woods felt like that scene with Elliot and E.T.
It’s refreshing to work with people who know exactly what they want and how to achieve it.
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The Star Trek: Picard production team is one of the most professional groups of people I’ve ever worked with. I was surprised to see that the covering of my real eyebrows was what took the longest (I do have thick/dark eyebrows). I also watched scenes that featured Sarek.Īround two hours. I went with his mind-meld hand position, too. Leonard Nimoy’s work is just on another level! So, I went and watched plenty of Spock. I couldn’t get Spock out of my mind the whole time during my process of preparation. So, were any previous portrayals of Vulcans inspirational to your performance? Some parallels can be drawn between this group of Vulcans and those in the Enterprise episode “Carbon Creek”, and Vulcans have been appearing on Star Trek ever since the 1960s. Many times, this information is limited, so yes, we have to come up with a backstory to help us be real with our performance the moment we hear “action!”… and which I will keep private to keep my options open for the future. Have you thought up a backstory to who the Vulcan you played was?Īs an actor, sometimes all the information you’re given is whatever is in the script and what the Director gives you right there on set. Eduardo Roman with Star Trek: Discovery actor Doug Jones (Eduardo Roman) He is a very kind, humble and extremely talented artist. He is as nice in real life as he is in interviews. Doug Jones was 2018’s recipient, so I had the honor of presenting the award to him that year.
Previous recipients are Guillermo del Toro, Matthew Modine, and John Lasseter, among others. The Visionary Award is given to artists who have contributed to the world of short filmmaking. In 2017, I was the recipient of the Visionary Award from the ShortsTV channel, which is a channel dedicated to showcasing short films 24/7/365, on DirecTV. I believe there was a time you presented Doug Jones with an award. I was always drawn to Spock the most, of course. However, we did get the first Star Trek movies, which I watched as a young child and later made me want to go back and watch The Original Series. What are your earliest memories of Star Trek?īack in Mexico, at least in my hometown, we didn’t get The Original Series. It did help that Joe Menendez (Director for episodes 7 & 8) is my friend and knows my previous work. I obtained the role of the Vulcan the old fashioned way: I auditioned for it. I graduated from law school in my hometown in Mexico and right away moved to Mexico City to study and pursue acting. The course of my career changed after that. I started doing theatre workshops and then plays. I discovered the wonderful world of acting while in college/law school. How did you start acting, and how did you obtain that particular role? First, congratulations on being cast as the Vulcan melder. This Vulcan’s mind meld with a young human boy (Wells) is interrupted when he is beamed back to his ship. I recently chatted with actor Eduardo Roman, who played a mysterious Vulcan in the Star Trek: Picard episode “Mercy”, the eighth episode of the show’s second season.
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