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Updated 12:28pm ET on 11-June-2002
9:00am ET, 10-June-02

Perlman Talks Nemesis Makeup

Ron Perlman, who plays the villainous Reman Viceroy in the upcoming Star Trek: Nemesis film, told the Star Trek Monthly magazine that he had to wear a latex mask and headpiece for the alien role, according to a report on the Sci Fi Pulse Web site. "It doesn't seem to let much oxygen in a pinch, so I'm breathing out of my mouth and nose," Perlman said. "I can't take it off until the end of the day. It takes a couple of hours to put on, and the days have been anywhere between 12 and 17 hours - less than 12 and probably close to 15 on average."

As for his costume, Perlman added, "I have almost no mobility in it. Almost everything I do, I'm fighting the costume. This is a very unique exercise in pacing yourself, and I come up short every day. Every night
I go home just whipped, really whipped."

But Perlman added that the makeup helps his performance. "There's no way you can create a character like this until you're actually in the getup and look at yourself in the mirror," he said. "That basically is the first clue as to what he walks like, talks like and what his mindset is, and that dictates everything else. So you do some generalized homework about the guy's circumstances, but you really have to wait until everybody puts on you what it is they're putting on you to create what is not human, but an abstraction." Nemesis opens in December.

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