We chat with StarTrekStrangeNewWorlds director Dermott Downs about directing the StrangeNewWorlds 'Subspace Rhapsody' episode, the first-ever StarTrek musical episode:
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Summary Dermott Downs boldly goes where no director has gone before by helming the first-ever Star Trek: Strange New Worlds musical episode. Downs' impressive list of credits includes "Duet," The Flash and Supergirl musical crossover, which made him imminently qualified to direct "Subspace Rhapsody."
Dermott Downs: Thank you. It's definitely a career highlight for me. I got into this business at seven [years old] because I had seen Oliver Twist and memorized the songbook. And I ran with that as a child actor until I became a cinematographer in the golden era of MTV. The real music video era, not the reality shows. And then I was fortunate when I moved into narrative and television. I've done a few musical episodes, probably most notably, The Flash and Supergirl "Duet.
Season one hadn't even aired, but it was already in the can. And they had episodes in season two left, and one they described as a sitcom. I don't have any sitcom experience. And the other was a musical. And I said, "Well, wait there." I said, "Here's my story." That first meeting was just as an intro, so I didn't know that I had it.
Dermott Downs: I saw probably half of season 1 just as prep. So I kind of understood the landscape of the ship, [because] it all takes place on the ship. Sometimes that feels it'd be limiting. It's like "Gosh, I don't get those big exteriors." But they do the giant space exteriors, and then the sets are really huge. I was fortunate in that I got two weeks of extra prep.
Dermott Downs: I was aware of Celia's background, and so I knew she was going to [bring] it. [Uhura's song] was such a huge power ballad, and we had so much room in [the scene] that I didn't want the camera to be distracting. But I also knew that in that power ballad when she pushes those notes out, there's gonna be room to push the camera out on those crane moves.
Dermott Downs: Yeah, Bruce! Obviously, this was my first episode, so I was only told about Bruce and was happy to accommodate that casting suggestion. He's awesome in the canon of this show. And yeah, going K-Pop was fun at the height of the craziness.
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