Kate Mulgrew

GameSpy: So how did you get involved with Lords of EverQuest?

Claudia Black: I got a phone call from my agent saying, "You wanna get paid?" (laughs) But I tell you what. Art is about truth. If you're in the presence of a true artist, then what you get is the doggone truth. And they said "We're gonna cut you off our books unless you take this job." So I said, "Alrighty! I love Lords of EverQuest! Lords of EverQuest, get me some of that!" (laughs)

Dwight Schultz

GameSpy: Did you get to see much of Lords Of EverQuest before you signed on?

Dwight Schultz: Naw, you don't see anything. You never do. When I did the Battlestar Galactica game, they had a whole script, but I didn't get to see any of it. I just saw my lines.

Michael T. Weiss: But it's fun to come down and do these games because you never know what to expect, and it always kind of throws you into some kind of dark underworld that was created by some brainiac with a twisted imagination.

GameSpy: Kate, you're no stranger to video games. As someone who's done a few, what do you think of the medium itself, is it fun for you?

Kate Mulgrew: Oh, I thoroughly enjoy them because I like using my voice as an instrument to capture people's imaginations. Especially since it falls into a genre of which I am quite fond, science fiction.

GameSpy: So what did you think about playing a 182-year-old woman? I mean, she looks like's she's only about 30...

Kate Mulgrew: ...but that's the most important part, if they look 30. If they look 30, I will go as old as 500 years, that's the payoff. The voice is old, but the physicality is young. I think that's part of the magic of this game.

GameSpy: Dwight, you've done voice work on a number of games. How was this experience different than the work you did on such games as Final Fantasy X, Blood Wake, and Tenchu 2?

Dwight Schultz: Well, it's different in that the dialogue is a lot better than Final Fantasy. Most of the time, the satisfaction you get has to do with the dialogue and the character. And sometimes they're very generic and there's nothing there to play, and then other times they're written very well.

Claudia Black

GameSpy: Claudia and Dwight, you've both done games in which you did the voice of a character you had originally played on TV. How was this experience different?

Claudia Black: Oh, I suppose it's easier in this. Well, there's pressure both ways because in Farscape there's a certain level of expectation because the fans know the character. But then, maybe they're more forgiving. Whereas with EverQuest, there's an expectation for the fans of EverQuest who may not know me, and they expect me to do what other actors have done before on these games.

Dwight Schultz: For me, doing Barkley's voice in Star Trek: Elite Force was much easier. With Barkley, they would ask me, "How would Barkley say this?" and would let me improvise how I thought the character would say the line.

Claudia Black: If it's possible, I think I overacted more on this than I did on the Farscape game. It's weird working in a vacuum and not having interaction from other performers. God knows I could have completely missed the mark. But at least with Farscape I knew the character. With this one, I just sort of took a stab in the dark.

GameSpy: Was there anything in the sessions that surprised you guys?

Michael T. Weiss: No. These worlds are so much fun to play in. You really get your imagination going, and it's just fun to bring to life to a world that doesn't really exist because then anything goes.

GameSpy: So are you guys into video games yourselves?

Dwight Schultz: I've been into video games all my life. I had the original Atari, and now we've got a PlayStation. My first computer was a Commodore 64, and I had all the games for that, but now I only allow myself one game: Medal of Honor. I can't play games that I'm involved with, though I do like to watch my daughter play Spider-Man. We used to play against each other but we had too many fights. But yeah, Medal of Honor is the only game that I allow myself.

Claudia Black: I actually learned how to shoot guns for Farscape by playing Time Crisis, though I'm such a wimp that it was hard to keep the gun up all the time. I also dug House Of The Dead. Anthony Simcoe [Ka D'Argo on Farscape], he was a big gamer, and he and Ben [Browder, Commander John Robert Crichton, Jr. on Farscape] would play this James Bond one that was actually really cool, Goldeneye, and I would play that with them sometimes.

GameSpy: How about you, Kate?

Kate Mulgrew: I cannot tell a lie ... no I don't. You won't hold that against me will you?

Michael T. Weiss

Kate Mulgrew: I raised three kids, and I lived in a world of video games, and all I could do at night was to pray to god for a big martini and a break from the whole mess....

GameSpy: Ha!

Kate Mulgrew: Yes. But that's the truth: I am technologically a midget.

GameSpy: So I think it's safe to say Kate's kids will be proud of their mom. How about the rest of you? Who's going to be most excited when they find out you're a character in Lords of EverQuest?

Michael T. Weiss: Oh man, I got a nephew that is just going to go nuts. It's just cool when you say to someone who's into this stuff, "Hey, I was Lord Kadian in Lords of EverQuest." "No way, dude!"

Dwight Schultz: My daughter is already asking me, "When are you getting the game, Dad?" "Are they sending you the game?" She just loves games if I have a voice in it. She likes taking them over to her friends' house and making them figure out which character is me.