Star Trek Voyager Genevieve Bujold revisited
This is kind of a revisit. I talked about this years ago in another blog post, but the VOY recasting of Janeway really intrigues me to no end. Voyager received a lot of bad press because Genevieve Bujold left the show during shooting. For me, I think Genevieve was too frail and weak delivering her lines. It wasn't a good fit. And, supposedly they cast her without even giving her a screen test or casting test due to her famous body of work. From Syfy Wire , (( Rick Berman told TV Guide back in 1994 about the Canadian veteran movie actress that "It was immediately obvious it was not a good fit." Then in 2006 Berman tried to share a bit more light about Bujold's departure from the series, saying: "This was a woman who, in no way, was going to be able to deal with the rigors of episodic television." )) Allegedly, Genevieve broke down during a scene and said, “I can't do this.” The director got frustrated with her and sort of went off ...