Brent Spiner Recounts A Terrifying Star Trek: First Contact Stunt | First Contact Day | Paramount+
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- Petrified of heights, Brent Spiner (Data) shares how director Jonathan Frakes asked him to perform a particularly daunting stunt while filming a scene for the movie Star Trek: First Contact. Stream full episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation and other series in the Star Trek Universe on Paramount+.
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I could honestly listen to the cast of TNG sit around telling stories about backstage shenanigans all day, every day, and I don't think I've ever get bored.
as long as frakes, brent, and michael dorn are in the room, i'd happily sit and listen to them speak for as long as they wanted
"I had to be focus and be Data,... because if I was being me I would scream" - Brent Spiner
Classic method acting! 🤣
There's something psycho about being an actor...Going around acting like other people.
There's quite a difference between Data and Brent Spiner.I still love data but I have met Brent Spiner in real life and I'm not crazy about him.
Hahahahaha this is great. And to do all that in cream makeup and yellow contact lenses? Amazing.
I've heard it called pancake makeup but I think you're right, there's a whole milkshake on his face
Hey you're still around? How ya been?
So it WAS a real silo... I knew it! Big respect for the crew and for Brent Spiner for pulling this stunt.
The Titan Missile Museum. Recommend the tour if your ever in the area.
You can tell they’re tight because Patrick and Jonathan think Brent’s fear is hilarious.
I bet Brent regrets getting Patrick to "loosen up" during the shooting of TNG now, huh? :p
I met Brent Spiner in person..they guy was really funny and made me and the fans like friends backstage for pics. A class act!!!!
Did he give you any Mister Data dolls?
Brian John Williams is a stuntman and stunt actor who was the main stunt double for Brent Spiner
He was credited.
Thanks for stunt doubling Data's data about his stunt man's last name ! B-)
Because his memory banks glitched on it,
he was extra ebullient in his praise for him.
Brent is very funny in his interviews. Constantly making his castmates laugh.
"Two-takes" Frakes has such a perfect ring to it; great name.
What a kick-ass movie FIrst Contact was. Regarding the stunt, I'm remembering Richard Kiel, the gentle giant who played Jaws in the James Bond films: when his mother saw Jaws fighting 007 on top of the cable car gondola, she told her son how brave she thought he son was, and he said, "Mom, they used a stunt double....I'm so afraid of heights, I don't even like being this tall."
Great quote!
Never before realized just how lucky I am to be 5'4!
@@charlesshreeve319 Not only that, but think of low-hanging wires, from an evolutionary perspective!
They also used some pretty terrible blue screen for that scene! But there are actually a few good shots of the stunt men doing the real thing.
Met Richard Kiel once, such a lovely man. A true gentle giant.
They all have ways of messing with each other 😂
I LOVE How Brent calls John Frakes "TWO TAKES"! THAT is DAMNED FUNNY! And You can SEE John and Patrick CRACKING UP Remembering it all! LOL
Haha 😅. He was known as Two Takes Frakes on set during the TNG years
Man, Alice Krige seems so pleasant. I'm really having a hard time reconciling her as the SAME person who plays the Borg Queen.
Shes old man
@@robd1329 I'm 62 and she doesn't look old to me! I remember her in a movie I saw years ago where she and her son (I think) could become invisible. Some kind of vampires IIRC. Something involving cats... I could be mistaken...
@@PhilG999 You're thinking of the Stephen King work Sleepwalkers. A story about these shape-shifters that prey on virgin girls and are deathly afraid of cats. Because cats can see through their illusions and can inflict fatal to near fatal damage with just a scratch.
@@jonathanwingate1901 I guess the movie might have been based on the Stephen King book but I'll look into it...
Gawd daaayymm her stuff must be like an old dried up leather wallet!! FUGLY!!!
Brent Spiner looks like he is prepping for the starring role in a biopic about Stephen Spielberg.
I was thinking that as well.
That's not Brent Spiner. He just looks like him. That's Dr. Okun from Area 51.
Lore versus Jaws
Two-takes Frakes, I love it!
Hehe, I was going to say at the start of the story when Brent says it was a stunt double. I remember that scene and it certainly looked like Brent sailing through the air.
Lots of respect for him taking his fear head on like that for the shot. He could have just said nope, not doing it, CGI my head on there or reframe the shot so the stunt double can do it, whatever. (head replacement probably wasn't a thing back then though) But no, he did the shot and it looked really good. I always appreciated those moments when they would highlight Data's strength or other superhuman attributes.
What a fantastic insider back story, Brent Spiner.
Really makes me appreciate what you did, all the more.
In the thumbnail, I thought for a moment that it was Steven Spielberg with his hair pulled back before I realized it was Spiner.
I just posted something like that and then read your comment.
“ I don’t like standing if I can help it.” 😂
Frakes is clearly in the cabin they used for Riker and Troi's home in Picard there.
Besides Spock from the original series, data was my favorite character
"i don't like standing if i can help it" lmfao!
not just that but then the interviewer goes, "I know" so defiantly like it's something he's personally had to deal with lolol
See, I don't believe in the word "fearless." Because it means just that - devoid of fear. The word shouldn't even exist. Because everybody is afraid of something. Case in point. This was bravery, in every respect of the word. And you don't even have to slow anything down or enhance the scene at all to know that, yes, it was really Mr. Spiner doing that jump. Amazing work, Mr. Spiner! Well done!
My favourite TNG movie was "Insurrection". The score was its own character even.
The film is underrated... it's another worthy adventure from the crew. Too bad they never got around and make a fifth to end on a good note, because Nemesis felt a bit lacking. Goldsmith wrote a good exciting score with Insurrection, if not the most inspired of all the Trek music he has written.
listening to that, I thought that frakes was yanking his chain when he said in the shot that people wouldn't believe it was spiner, i thought that he thought"oh, yeah, let's play a practical joke on brent" LOL. He looks great with a beard & mo/goatie.
Brent is awesome. Awesome man beyond Trek.
Why? He comes off as a snarky jerk in many interviews.
He is..i met him in person
@@robd1329 awesome or a jerk?
@@mem1701movies yeah he's kind of a douche
Now I have to re-watch the movie ^^
Wow Will you have lost some wait! Thanks for doing this recap of all my favorite shows of all time. FYI I'm such and old nerd. I watch Star Trek every night on HI TV with my antenna in Apopka Florida. Thanks for the show. Great seeing everyone.
Brent really tells great stories.
He did it and we love him for it!! Way to take one for the team Brent!!
Literally looked up the silo scene. He's a phenomenal actor. I did not notice one iota of panic or fear.
"Two Takes Frakes" 🤣
Nice to get a look at what that place Brent Spiner owns in Malibu looks like.
Brent now sounds like his voice performance of his creator. The great actor that he was knew what an older version of himself would sound like.
My chest got tight just listening to him tell that. *shivers*
It is really great watching and listening to these great actors. 😘♥️
As I listened to that description Brent, the story was great. I know about the fear of heights and I'm chuckling as you describe it. Then it brought me to tears laughing as I'm watching Sir Patrick, Jonathan, and Alice's faces laughing about it. Yeah, theeeeeeyyy knew what they were doing! You folks are excellent at what you do and thank you for taking that challenge. Waiting for the new "Picard" and "Discovery" episodes..And Wil, congratulations on being made "Acting Ensign" on last nights episode of TNG! LOL....
Star Trek: First Contact is easily my favorite Star Trek movie, period. I think it’s also my favorite space/sci-fi movie as well. It’s such a magnificent movie, and the entire cast is phenomenal in it.
Hi Brent spiner my name is Bridget and from Pontiac Michigan and I would like to say that you are amazing and hilarious movie actor wonderful musician musician and my family and I are your biggest fans of you wish you love 💕 and stay safe
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Great video always loved Brent as data
Well that make so many people that have a fear of high more settled, KNOWING THAT A GREATLY LOVE ACTOR has the same fear. Thanks for sharing.
LMAO "Two Takes" Frakes... LOVE IT!!
I am rewatching next generation at the moment and my first thought, when I saw Brent Spiner was “wait a minute. Something is wrong with his eyes”
What a great actor he is to not scream loud, but being the same cool android as always.
So awesome!
This is great, I love first contact. Wasn’t super keen on it when I first watched it but has become a favourite of mine.
It was better than Generations. Even the cast said the script for the TNG finale All Good Things would have made a better movie.
@@jamesscully529 I like generations, has some great music and special effects
4:29 two-takes is an A-hole!!! hahahah great story
Cudos to Brent Spiner. So committed and talented he can put aside sheer terror and put on a face of nonchalance! Not something many others could do, I'm sure - certainly not me! 😳
This...
is...
PRICELESS...!!!
You go Wil! Love you!!! Also, can we all pitch in and buy Brent Spiner some furnishings?
Androids don't need furnishings.
First Contact was a great movie.
“Whoaaa”
Oh, look, the guy who blocked me after I said how Picard series would be terrible and I nailed to the core. RIP Star Trek.
I visited the Titan Missile Museum in AZ and had no idea that it was the silo used in First Contact, that's something that they should tell people on the tour.
Such a cool video. Wesley Crusher all grown up interviewing the adults. I have to say, I prefer Brent Spiner's "Data" voice over his real one. He's easily one of my favorite Star Trek characters.
Best Star Trek movie ever made.
The Wrath of Khan in second place.
I just Watched The Wrath of Khan for the Very first Time, just last night, as an Adult. & I'm about to be 40. I can't Remember the Shatner Movies from my Childhood, so it's only now, I've taken the Time to go back, & watch them. I still think it's a shame the way Star Trek Enterprise Didn't get a fair shake. So many Elements were right, but the Timing for it was off. DS9 was still on Air, & doing OKAY, Voyager was Floundering, & it meant most people never gave Enterprise a Chance. PLUS they got BONED on the intro Music, a complete bamboozle.
"I don't like standing if I can help it"
Brent Spiner
Brent is a great actor and an all round good bean 🙏
Brent and I share a similar fear, we both have a terrible fear of heights! 😱
I always thought that jump was CGI. I mean... it looks completely fake. I remember watching it in the cinema, thinking "oh, they messed up the CGI" but shrugging it off since it was such a short moment.
They filmed him in front of a bluescreen thats why it looks fake
@@NitpickingNerd they did not. As per the video, that's him on a "descender", actually falling through a real missile silo.
Yea I would have been screaming all the way down
Spiner sounds like Noonien Soong more than Data
Said the same thing
The actor does sound more like a human than an android.
Devlin Bowman really hasn't aged a day
Ha ha "Two Takes"..... Priceless nickname...
where can i see the whole video
Brent
I can relate
🤯
I know how he feels!
Brian John Williams is the stunt double.
Where can we see this full interview?
Data is not indestructible. Recall that episode where Troi accidentally shot him with an arrow?
Rappelling is a blast, especially in a cave.
'' blue skies... ''
I got your back Mr Spiner. Stuntman Brian J Williams.
Where are the full panels?
On Paramount Plus.
sign up for the free trial, then cancel right away. Or keep it. for me personally it does not have enough content right now to justify spending more than 4.99 a month on it, but you have to make that call for yourself. If you just want the panels, do the free trial and cancel
He said it was a sound stage where it was shot not the missile silo?
Frakes nodding in the background.
Picard was the most death defying series. I am surprised anyone survived it.
@@Jose_Hunters_EWF_Remixes I shill for God and the kingdom of heaven.
STP is a disgrace to Star Trek and Picard's character.
@@fatarsemonkey
I haven't seen that movie yet. I read the book though, and it sucks.
@@tabularasa0606 Well that's probably because to you it is not given.
Matthew 13
11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
@@fatarsemonkey
Like I said, the book sucks. I've read better fiction.
Yeah, that sounded dreadful. I was practically sweating myself. There is no way I'd trust a machine to stop my fall, they'd be forced to use a double.
Wasn't it in Blade Runner 2049 that it was said that to be human was to sacrifice yourself for a larger cause, which is what the hero did in the end.
It's also nonsense. Ants do it. It's an example of how the the selfish gene works.
I will get Paramount Plus.... if they pick up Fresh Hell.
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That's so cruel to Brent you wouldn't get me doing that at all lol
Alice Krige , Borg Queen , Data Also Delayed HiveMindQueen+Her Lore`$Embracing ; Si ?
well now i feel more validated in my extreme fear of heights lol people always make fun of me for being scared of heights because i'm so tall (5'11") as if that has anything to do with being scared of heights or not
Was that Patrick Stewart laughing or was that Jean-Luc Picard laughing???
Oh geez. I suffer vertigo at height so there's no way I would have been able to do it. 😳
Why the shot couldn't have been achieved with Brent jumping from the 3-4ft mark then lengthened with special effects even back in the 1990s, I'll never understand.
Spiner looks and talks like a human Zuckerberg might
lOVE TNG. I really think Paramount missed an opportunity to have Vegas build a full scale replica of the enterprise in old down town Vegas... :(
Brent, if I'd been in your place, after you landed and everyboy cheered and Jonathan said, "Do it again" = I would have thrown up on him.
I think mcfadden beside brent spiner, because i didn’t know at first
"Two takes"? what a name...
Two Takes Frakes
Poor Brent, all that for a scene that looked like it was sped up anyways
Who's that in the bottom right?
Franks still looks good.👍🏻
Wheaton gets douchier and douchier.
Wait.... is THAT wheaton?
Why yes. WHEATON!!!
Today he is the age Patrick Stewart was when TNG first started.
Alice Krige still looks fabulous as does then entire crew.
LOL? I just watched that jump on TH-cam. You can’t even really see his face clearly so it could be also the stuntmen. No need for Brent to jump himself 🤣
Ants and bees sacrifice themselves for the group. That doesn't make them human.
They are drones and are not sentient. A sentient being doing that is very human.
@@Paulafan5 Hmmm. Not sentient would mean they have no senses, I'm thinking. But ants and bees can see. Maybe another concept, like, "do not possess a human sense of morality."
Brent Spiner is amazing. He’s looking a bit rough though.
He looks ok to me. Just age. Happens to all of us
@@volvo1971 he’s got that disheveled look I see in people during these lockdowns. Not enough human interaction taking its toll. He doesn’t look bad, just rough.
He's probably doing a role that requires him to have the facial hair.