Meaney, like many actors, preferred to maintain busy. He wasn’t content material to merely be the star of successful “Star Trek” present. He wanted to ply his commerce elsewhere on the identical time. It must also be famous that “The Snapper” and “The Van” talked about above, each directed by Stephen Frears, are the second and third installments within the Barrytown franchise, a collection of diversifications of the novels of Roddy Doyle kicked off by Alan Parker with 1991’s “The Commitments,” which additionally featured Meaney. He was loyal to that collection as nicely. Moreover, he preferred Hollywood motion, intense dramas, and absolutely anything else he may work his approach into. Trekkies could ven be stunned to search out how prolific Meaney actually was.
He instructed StarTrek.com that he was permitted to look in as many movies as he needed, offered he talked to Rick Berman first. Berman, he recollects, was very accommodating. He stated:
“I took a little bit of persuading, however Rick Berman could be very persuasive. He stated to me, ‘If there’s one thing you actually need to do, deliver me the script.’ My concern was that I would not be capable to do the flicks I needed to do. Rick mainly stated, ‘If it is a script you actually need to do, I will discover a option to make it give you the results you want.’ And he was nearly as good as his phrase.”
The interviewer requested Meaney if he was ever exhausted, showing on successful primetime TV collection whereas usually splitting off to go shoot motion pictures midway across the globe. Meaney wasn’t enervated by the excess of labor, however energized. For Meaney, stepping away from “Deep Area 9” gave him a change of surroundings. He stated:
“[I]t was essential to do the flicks as a result of that sort of refreshed you. Somewhat than doing the identical factor again and again, you have been doing a wide range of stuff.”
