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Star Trek actress – Chase Masterson interview

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Chase Masterson was an actress on Star Trek Deep Space Nine for five years and is currently an activist with the Pop Culture Hero Coalition anti-bullying organization. She and coalition member Raymond Litster spoke to me about their campaign and anti-bullying work in general.

1:02 – Chase talks about her anti-bullying non-profit coalition

1:42 – Raymond talks about how he got involved in the coalition. Chase also talks about how she was bullied when she was a child.

3:50 – Chase didn’t have resources to escape bullying when she was young.

5:28 – Raymond sees bullying every day. Bullies take out their angers on friends, family and so on.

8:32 – They’ve been promoting the coalition since 2013 and they do about 17 conventions a year. Their link is Popculturehero.org and they are @superheroirl on facebook, twitter and instragram. They also have t-shirts and baseball caps available.

10:12 – Chase Masterson is on twitter. Raymond is on twitter @rrlitster

Links of interest

Pop Culture Hero Coalition

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Guests: Chase Masterson and Raymond Litster

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, sci-fi, star trek, deep space nine, bullying, anti-bullying, conventions

X-Men actor – Shawn Ashmore interview

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Shawn Ashmore is a Canadian actor best know to comic book fans as iceman of the X-Men film series. He’s done horror, drama and animation work. I spoke with him at Shore Leave 2018.

0:57 – Shawn talks about he started acting as a hobby with his twin brother when they were kids. At age 14 he decided to take it seriously.

2:33 – He feels that a well-written script has done most of the work for an actor. He likes to break down scripts and create a personal history for the character if it’s not done already. He used music to inspire him in roles. Costumes also help him create the feel of the character.

4:38 – All the leather superhero costumes really adjust how he approaches a character. He also played Terry Fox who was a famous Canadian runner. Wearing his running outfit was emotional for Shawn.

6:49 – Shawn was an X-Men reader so he enjoyed being on the film. He felt a chill when he saw Patrick Stewart in the wheelchair and it felt like X-Men.

8:49 – Stand By Me was the film that made him want to be an actor. Lawrence of Arabia, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and lassic horror films have inspired him. He’s a fan of storytelling and great characters.

10:57 – He’s always found fans who’ve liked works of his that he might have felt didn’t reach the level he wanted it to.

11:39 – He watched a lot of Next Gen and wanted a transporter.

13:21 – He’s on twitter and instagram.

 

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Guests: Shawn Ashmore

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: X-Men, movies, marvel comics, horror,

Sci-fi actor – Aron Eisenberg interview

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Aron Eisenberg is an actor and filmmaker who is probably best known to sci-fi fans as Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He and I spoke at Shore Leave 2018 about acting.

1:01 – Aaron talks about how he first got into acting at the age of 17. He just did it for money at first then loved it. He had two auditions for Star Trek. His first big success was Horror Movie.

3:36 – Any role he takes on, he feels he needs to show the honesty of the role regardless of whether its genre or drama. He actually worked as Mickey Mouse at Disneyland in the past.

5:11 – Aaron talks about doing mask work. He mentions things he needed to do to work in prosthetics.

6:49 – He talks about his voice acting work on a Star Trek video game as Nog.

7:52 – He’s a big fan of Penn, Pacino, Rourke, and DeNiro. Those are his role models in acting. He got to work with Sean Penn in Colors.

9:51 – He loves Altered Carbon and Yellowstone. He also would love to be in Orville. He’s on twitter and facebook under his name, Aaron Eisenberg. He’s doing a webcast show with Garret Wong called the Alpha Quadrant. They talk about DS9 and Voyager.

 

Links of interest

TheAlphaQuadrant.com

https://www.facebook.com/aron.eisenberg

https://twitter.com/AronEisenberg

 

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Guests: Aron Eisenberg

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, actor, star trek, DS9, deep space nine, Colors, Horror, Movie, Disneyland