It turned out to be a role that I was actually able to stretch a bit. "I got to play his brother, his father, his uncle, his ancestors.
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"But also, because I also got to play so many different things on the show as him, I got to try on the skin of all kinds of different types of humanity," he said. Spiner remained thankful that Star Trek has allowed him to be flexible as an actor, not only playing his own ancestors but also allowing Data to be his vessel for acting in other roles too. There is a feeling of trust people have in the character that he's incapable of hurting them." Brent Spiner in Star Trek: Picard. But all that being said with relation to character, if I had to have one character that I had to be typecast as, it would be this character. I, frankly, like to think I've been typecast as the reason when I don't get jobs, because the alternative is that I'm just lousy. I think there are times maybe I haven't gotten a job because I am so identified with the character. Soongs previous, and less successful attempt at an artificial life form, Lore, who. On the other hand, what I was trained to do was to play as many different things as possible, so it has been limiting sort of in that way. Data beams down to the planet and is reactivated to his normal self by an old scientist. "The larger part of that sword has been very positive. Image courtesy of CBS All Access/ViacomCBS The actor /writer recalled the problems often associated with typecasting from playing such an iconic character in the sci-fi genre affecting his acting career. Spiner's wife and cast members like Jonathan Frakes (William Riker) lend their voices as fictionalized versions of themselves. It would be that ghostwriter, Jeanne Darst, who suggested tweaking the story of his time on TNG providing a fictional account reimagined as a mystery story wherein he was being pursued by a fictional stalker. His parents, Sylvia (Schwartz) and Jack Spiner, owned and operated a furniture store, and were both from Jewish immigrant families (from Austria, Hungary, and Russia).
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"I was going to tell a quick story, have a couple glasses of wine and reap the benefits," he said. Mini Bio (1) Brent Spiner, whose primary claim to fame is his portrayal of the beloved android Data on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Suck it, Picard.While promoting his upcoming fictional biography Fan Fiction: A Mem-Noir – Inspired by True Events, Spiner spoke with The Washington Post (via /Film) about his original plans for the memoir contributing the bare minimum until it took a life of its own. “If you were to compare the videos made in 2020 with those made in 2018, I think you would notice that the resolution of the face is better, and the level of detail is higher - especially in the skin and the eyes.” “Deepfake technology is evolving and getting better, and creative people are taking the lead in using it,” Deep Homage said. technology was used to create a de-aged Mark Hamill as Luke Skywalker for the Disney+ show The Mandalorian.
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Increasingly, they’re finding their ways into regular movies and TV shows, too. “It takes at least a week to train the model to re-create the face, and then the footage is converted with the model and edited.”ĭeepfakes have been used for a variety of creative, filmic applications - whether it’s swapping out Arnie Schwarzenegger for Sly Stallone in Terminator 2 or creating an alternative speech by former President Richard Nixon regarding the moon landing. “The process involves training a computer model with thousands of example images of both faces, derived from video footage,” Deep Homage said. The results provide a tantalizing alternative to the Data seen in Picard.
Deep Homage therefore set about creating a digitally de-aged Data deepfake (try saying that 10 times quickly) using deep learning-based face-swap technology. Since Data appears in dream sequences in Picard, Deep Homage felt that it would make far more sense for Jean-Luc to remember Data’s younger self from their days together on the Enterprise. “I like the Star Trek: Picard series very much, but I found Data’s ‘makeover’ a little jarring, having seen Next Generation Data for so many years.” “I’m a lifelong Star Trek fan, and have been making these videos for more than two years,” Deep Homage, a U.S.-based deepfake creator who requested to remain anonymous, told Digital Trends. However, Star Trek fans are a tech-savvy bunch, and it didn’t take long for one of them to spring into action to right this particular wrong - with the aid of some cutting-edge deepfake technology. Data fans remember from his Star Trek: The Next Generation heyday. Data for the 2020 CBS All Access series Star Trek: Picard, and while it was certainly a nice touch to see Spiner play the iconic synthetic life form for the first time in years, there was no getting around the fact that the character didn’t look entirely like the Mr. Star Trek Picard: Fixing Data's Face with Deepfakeīrent Spiner reprised his role as Lt.
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