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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I sort of made a deal with myself that if I was going to spend a year on a project, I wanted my kids to see it at the end so they know where Dad has been.
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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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In the theater, we were sort of happy to do what we could get.
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Very key to a good episode is to have something not work, and have our brilliant science team somehow fix it magically in the fifth act.
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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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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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While we were on the WB we were certainly not the number one show.
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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 always was - and still am - somehow able to use the amount of money that we have to make the project.
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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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To get that script as my first movie was just amazing.
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But nothing really felt like it was going to take off the way that Star Trek did, before that.
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It's pretty evident even when you're a guest actor on a show - you know where the power is.