Katherine Janeway becomes Katharine Hepburn

[Sinclair]

For all you Kate Mulgrew fans:

Mulgrew as Hepburn

 

[Recoil]

It's funny, but if you watch that John Wayne movie "Rooster Cogburn" that has Katharine Hepburn in it, Kate Mulgrew DOES seem a lot like her.

 

[GKarsEye]

I almost got free tickets to this play. Almost.

 

[ElScorcho]

I always got the feeling that she was doing a Hepburn impression, even on Voyager.

It's funny, I saw her do an interview with Pat Sajak (for some reason) and she always pretended not to know the answers to the Star Trek questions. It's hard to conceive an actor knowing so little about a role she played for seven years. I guess she's too cool for that.

 

[Recoil]

Maybe she has the IQ of swamp root, and a memory that is like a teflon pan.

 

[Sinclair]

Other than Voyager and Nemesis, the only other thing I've ever seen Mulgrew in was a couple episodes of Cheers. It would be interesting to see her do Hepburn though.

 

[GKarsEye]

Not surprising at all. As an actor. Mulgrew would only care about the motivations and emotional state of the character, not about Cardassian politics.

Most of the Trek actors were never really into Trek.

 

[ElScorcho]

Cardassian politics

Not many Cardassians on Voyager, I'm afraid.

She also stated in the interview that she was really good friends with William Shatner.

 

[crofootski]

Actually, there were a couple of times in watching VOY where she reminded me of Capt. Kirk.

I thought Capt. Janeway was pretty cool and had a good sense of humor. Very good presence, too.