We chat with gates_mcfadden about season 2 of her podcast, InvestiGates, her comeback as Dr. Beverly Crusher in StarTrekPicard season 3, and playing the first Cathy Ryan in the JackRyan movies:
Warning: The Following Interview Contains SPOILERS for Star Trek: Picard Season 3With her starring role in Star Trek: Picard season 3 and her podcast, InvestiGates: Who Do You Think You Are?, Gates McFadden is reconnecting with Star Trek fandom while winning over a new generation. McFadden reprises her iconic role of Dr. Beverly Crusher in Star Trek: Picard season 3 alongside the rest of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
And I think the one caveat I had was that I wanted to do the sound editing myself. I tried it sitting next to somebody in a studio, and it just didn't work for me. I have a director's mind. And I like to edit things and make them because the rhythm of something, and the flow, is very important to me. So I've learned a new skill. They refine what I've done. But basically, all of the editing is [by] me. And so, it's made it arduous [and] challenging, but also very interesting.
Stacey Abrams is actually part of Star Trek. She appeared at the end of Star Trek: Discovery season 4. She's the President of Earth. Gates McFadden: Yes, he's already done one. As has [Star Trek: Picard showrunner] Terry Matalas. I adore Teddy. He's great. And I adore Terry Matalas. I think he's a storyteller par excellence. He did a remarkable job with this season, I think. Gates McFadden: Maybe! Maybe that would be a really good idea. Does that sound interesting to you? Gates McFadden: Well, then I should try to do that. Because that really would be cool. They are both so wonderful as human beings.
I was also awestruck by your performance with Patrick Stewart at the end of episode 2, where you needed no words to convey the truth that Jack was his son. And then your scenes together in episode 3, which I thought were one of the greatest dramatic scenes ever performed in Star Trek. What it was like filming those scenes, and with Jonathan Frakes directing?
Picard, in this week's episode, told Jack that he'd have chosen the same name for his son. I'd love to hear your perspective on Beverly naming Jack after her dead husband. That we respected the junior officers as much as we respected the older officers. Both old and young make mistakes, and very often, and I am certainly living proof of this, the younger generation is smarter in many ways than the older generation. But then again, the younger generation lacks a certain amount of experience and the wisdom that comes from having made mistakes and how to correct them. So that's what I love. And I do not see that happening a lot on television.
Gates McFadden: She is amazing. And you know what? I had just met her. We were in the restroom at Las Vegas last year. I knew she just had her baby. And I said, "I think you're she's an astonishing actress, and I would love to have you on my podcast." She said, "Yes, I would love to do it." It's more about [timing], you know, if she was having two weeks off, what are you going to do? She's got her family.
Gates McFadden: Tawny was just great. It was one of the easiest ones I've ever done. As I say in the podcast's beginning, I said, if I could be anyone, I'd like to be her. I think there's something about her that just does it for me. She's great. She's so cool and down to Earth.
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