News from Nan Dibble of the Helpers' Network US for fans of Beauty and the Beast...

Excerpt from a much longer article on "Star Trek: Nemesis" found on the Rotten Tomatoes film review site.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/StarTrekNemesis-1117268/preview.php

- Nan

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The process of turning Hardy into a Stewart lookalike took a couple of hours each day before shooting, but Hardy wasn't alone during those long makeup sessions. Veteran Star Trek cast members Brent Spiner and Michael Dorn, who were daily transformed into their respective characters, Data and Worf, spent hours having their makeup done just as they had during their seven seasons on the television series and the three previous feature films.

Also joining Hardy, Spiner and Dorn in the makeup chair was Ron Perlman, who was no stranger to prosthetics, having spent three seasons as the star of the popular television series "Beauty and the Beast." His transformation into the Reman Viceroy took two-and-a-half hours.

"My character is the power behind the power, a little like Shakespeare's character Iago," Perlman says. "The Reman Viceroy is shrouded in mystery, so the particular challenge was to portray him in a minimal, selective way, rooted in stillness. That's a cool thing for an actor to wrap his teeth around."

Because Perlman's character is an alien species audiences have never seen before, the actor had the luxury of taking risks with the role, and makeup designer Michael Westmore had unlimited possibilities in creating the look of the evil Reman Viceroy.

"Remans live on a planet that gets sunlight only a fraction of the time," Westmore notes, "so the filmmakers wanted them to have an almost Nosferatu look about them without making them into vampires."

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