Behr, recalling the expertise of working with Yulin, defined in a 2017 tweet: “[Yulin] b**ched and moaned about [his role] demanding that it endure a significant rewrite. Not a phrase was modified. Humorous outdated biz.”
This shocked me after I first learn it. The script for “Duet” is so elegant, as is Yulin’s efficiency. Performing as Kira’s foil, he helps carry out the perfect in Nana Customer too. The interaction between Kira and Marritza, a decided girl standing exterior a cell speaking to a person enjoying thoughts video games as he sits inside it, evokes “Silence of the Lambs.” Customer and Yulin are practically pretty much as good as Jodie Foster as Clarice and Sir Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter have been.
The a part of Marritza is a dramatic feast that day participant jobs on TV not often supply. When “Darhe’el” brags about his conflict crimes to Kira, Yulin is completely convincing as a power-drunk tyrant. From the way in which he describes his satisfaction in killing Bajorans, in having management over life and dying after which all the time selecting the latter, you are feeling such as you’re watching the Satan himself. Then, with hindsight, you notice Yulin is not enjoying a hammy villain, Marritza is. He is attempting to persuade Kira that she’s proper about him being a monster — similar to Yulin, in flip, convinces us in his ultimate scenes that he is a person who’d moderately die than carry on residing as one of many responsible.
Discover how his Darhe’el facade lastly collapses whereas denigrating himself and his cowardice, describing how (in third particular person) Maritza lined his ears and cried himself to sleep each evening, terrified by the screams he might hear from his bunk. Watching him, one feels that he by no means stopped listening to these screams after leaving Gallitep, so he stopped protecting his ears.
Listening to that Yulin appeared to “hate” the episode? It stung me with disappointment. Then I occurred on Conway’s earlier 2012 interview with Star Trek.com. His account nonetheless matches with Behr’s recollections of “b**ching and moaning,” however in keeping with Conway, it wasn’t as a result of Yulin hated “Duet” in any respect:
“[Yulin] did not just like the ending of [‘Duet’]. He received so invested in his character that he did not need his character to die on the finish. He was attempting to justify it and have him in some way survive, which just about by no means occurs on a tv present. The visitor star by no means begins attempting to vary a script. He did, however principally as a result of he was so invested within the character.”
Yulin’s complaining appears to have come from his ardour for the “Duet” script, not lack of it. I feel each Behr and Conway’s accounts are the reality, simply remembered in a different way. Yulin wanting the ending modified so Marritza lived does match the demanded “main rewrite” Behr recounts. Plus, since he was stepping out of line and above his rank to get the script modified, Behr may’ve remembered that as him being tough to work with. (Behr did make the tweet 24 years after “Duet” first aired.)
