There is a lot of excitement around Star Trek: Picard Season 3, and one of the main aspects of the new season that fans are looking forward to is the reunion of several characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes), Deanna Troy (Marina Sirti), Data (Brent Spiner), Geordi La Forge (LeVar Burton) and Worf (Michael Dorn) will join Picard (Patrick Stewart) in his latest dangerous adventure, which could cost him his life.
Burton’s Geordi La Forge has always been one of my favorite characters in Star Trek franchise and the fact that he will be back at least one more time after all these years is great! During a recent interview with /Film, the actor was asked about Geordi’s backstory and Burton talked about playing the character and how satisfying it was:
“When I’m playing a character, I always start with who they are and discover those things that we have in common. And I think over time, I’ve been able to infuse more and more LeVar into Geordi, and there’s been a lot of Geordi that has flowed into in LeVar. I won’t say they blended completely, but I know this guy very well, Geordi La Forge. And the bow that [showrunner Terry Matalas] he proposed to me was absolutely fine”.
Burton went on to describe the opportunity to return to the role of the character after all these years, saying:
“You have to remember, we didn’t think this was ever going to happen. This is like, ‘Wow.’ It’s been a couple of decades since we’ve put on these costumes and played these characters again and the opportunity to do that with the additional 20 years of growth and development and the wealth that we’ve mined in our personal lives, to be able to bring that to this experience, to these characters in this season of ‘Picard’ is a rather rare gift.”
The actor then went on to tease what Geordi brings to the story by saying the Star Trek: New Generation the veterans “obviously have a lot of love and respect for each other, but now they’re living different lives.” He added, “I think part of what Geordi’s character brings is that reminder that we have a lot of history, but my priorities have changed.”
Star Trek: Picard The third season will debut on Paramount+ on February 16, 2023.
by Joey Paur
Source: Geek Tyrant
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