Anonymous asked:

Hey there! Do you know whether or not the actors shipped Garak x Bashir? I heard that apparently in an interview they were talking about how it could have became canon ( and i've been scrambling to find the source ever since )

Well, Andy Robinson sure did:

Amazon.co.uk: Some fans have speculated about Garak’s private life.

Robinson: Yes, and his sexuality. I started out playing Garak as someone who doesn’t have a defined sexuality. He’s not gay, he’s not straight, it’s a non-issue for him. Basically his sexuality is inclusive. But—it’s Star Trek and there were a couple of things working against that. One is that Americans really are very nervous about sexual ambiguity. Also, this is a family show, they have to keep it on the “straight and narrow”, so then I backed off from it. Originally, in that very first episode, I loved the man’s absolute fearlessness about presenting himself to an attractive human being. The fact that the attractive human being is a man (Bashir) doesn’t make any difference to him, but that was a little too sophisticated I think. For the most part, the writers supported the character beautifully, but in that area they just made a choice they didn’t want to go there, and if they don’t want to go there I can’t, because the writing doesn’t support it.

(from this post)

Plus many many other things he’s said/done which I have posted about but can’t find right now, darn it all–

And as for Siddig, he may not have intended it, but he certainly went along with it, and he grins/giggles when Andy brings it up… If he doesn’t actively ship it, he appears to be willing to entertain the concept!

Everybody, I know there’s more stuff. Can you add on, please?

QUESTION: When your character, Julian, turned 30 on the show, it really hit home wtih me, because I turned 30 this year…
SIDDIG: Did you? I’m so sorry.
QUESTION: Did you go through anything like that on your 30th birthday?
SIDDIG: …I’m 29.

Alexander Siddig at a 1995 convention, from this video posted by mkkstartrek

sidcity.net

Alexander Siddig writes about Cairo Time, Miral, dildos, cricket | SidCity.net | The official fansite for Alexander Siddig.

Apparently Sid writes letters to his fan club. They include the above, as well as exchanges such as:

“Pothos? You need to burn that spam recipe.
Now.
You really can. You can go to the kitchen, open the window, disable the smoke alarm and just set fire to that highly dubious piece of paper.”

Fun read!

• Interviewer: How much of yourself did you put into that character (Dr Bashir), because they altered the script somewhat when you got the role?
• Alexander Siddig: It's too exhausting not to put all yourself in it. You have to use "you" and work from there. It's just day in day out for seven years, you just can't pretend to be someone else for very long.

Wow, does “Un Homme Perdu” ever not look like my sort of movie.
That said, the bit that starts at 2:22 and lasts, mmm, about 8 seconds is very much my type of movie indeed.

ladydrace.dreamwidth.org

ladydrace | Un Homme Perdu. Review and HUGE picspam! NSFW!

Look. I’m just gonna leave this link here, all right?

The fact that it goes to ladydrace’s dreamwidth picspam of Alexander Siddig’s “Un Homme Perdu” isn’t really relevant, nor is the fact that in several of those pictures he is in flagrante delicto and in at least one case has no pants on.

None of that is relevant.

I just need a place to put this link. You don’t mind, do you?

(Advance warning: offhand mention of rape in the link.)

[Interviewer:] Does [the Reboot Star Trek movie] put to bed any DS9 film?

Siddig: Oh. I think almost beyond a shadow of a doubt. And I’m very proud of DS9. But I think that it lived and I think people quite weirdly enjoy it almost more now, that it’s not showing any more than they did at the time.

[Interviewer:] In which way?

Siddig: At the time, they were forced into making choices. I think Paramount made a few mistakes about putting, like, two or three Star Trek shows up against each other and on different channels, so that you literally were appealing to different constituencies. And that was probably, I think, an error of judgment. I think it hurt the very end of The Next Generation and it hurt the beginning of Deep Space Nine and then Voyager came along and Deep Space Nine was just a kind of flailing kid in the background that was just “Ah, and we’re here too. We’re doing another show.” Now, people actually get a chance to stand back and actually choose which ones they like from the whole array of this vast franchise. Deep Space has become really quite popular and people are really, really passionate or fond of it. I’m fond of the whole franchise, really. A couple of the later series were maybe a bit cynical, but, you know, they’ve gotta make money and-

[Interviewer:] The genetic– (Siddig recently voiced his strong objections to the storyline in the season 5 episode Dr. Bashir, I Presume which showed Dr. Bashir’s parents had him genetically modified as a child to counter learning disabilities).

Siddig: That’s totally fine. But (Abrams’ film) definitely put Deep Space Nine to bed. And I think that’s not a bad thing.

Alexander Siddig Exclusive Interview; CAIRO TIME, DEEP SPACE NINE, MIRAL

During this time of financial struggle Sid was offered the part of Emir Feisal in A Dangerous Man: Lawrence After Arabia, the sequel to Lawrence of Arabia. Sid co-starred with Ralph Fiennes (more recently of Schindler’s List and The English Patient) who played T. E. Lawrence. His screen test with Fiennes landed him the part against five actors with a lot more experience.

In an interview that Sid gave at the time, Sid related how he got the part: “I sent in my photo and a CV (curriculum vitae) hoping I might get a small part as one of Feisal’s aides or henchmen. The first picture, of me without a beard, got no response. So I sent in one of me with a beard and got called in for a screen test. I wasn’t planning to get full time. I was directing fringe theater in London and I plan to go back to it. I don’t trust acting–not for an exotic actor like me. I could be flavor of the month for awhile, then burn out like a little shooting star.” (Los Angeles Times, October 20, 1991).

Sid’s Biography | SidCity.net | The official fansite for Alexander Siddig.