Nana Customer explains what occurred with Darkish Angel, Fox’s cyberpunk sci-fi collection produced by James Cameron and starring Jessica Alba. After starring as Main Kira Nerys for all seven seasons of Star Trek: Deep House 9, Customer joined Darkish Angel because the villainous Dr. Elizabeth Renfro in direction of the tip of season 1.
Set in post-apocalyptic Seattle, Darkish Angel centered on Max Guevara (Jessica Alba), a genetically engineered teenager hiding from the federal government forces she escaped from as a toddler. Max companions with crusading cyberjournalist Logan Cale (Michael Weatherly) and helps folks in want whereas trying to find her siblings, who additionally fled the federal government’s X-5 program.
In an unique interview with ScreenRant’s John Orquiola about her time on Star Trek: Deep House 9 and her upcoming look at Creation Leisure’s ST: CHI – Trek to Chicago conference, Nana Customer appeared again on her transient time on Darkish Angel and revealed what occurred to her villain. Take a look at Nana’s quote beneath:
ScreenRant: One of many exhibits I actually cherished after DS9 ended was Darkish Angel. You got here on on the finish of season one because the villain, Dr. Elizabeth Renfro. Do you have got reminiscences of your time on that present?
Nana Customer: It was a wild time for me as a result of I used to be doing Chicago on Broadway, and they’d fly me to Vancouver and do all my scenes without delay in two days. Chicago would give me an extra day without work, after which I’d fly again and do the present. And I did that for some time. I had two younger [kids], I had an eight-year-old and a four-year-old. So it was like I used to be out of my thoughts, exhausted. I bear in mind attending to Vancouver one time, and I used to be getting a therapeutic massage pondering, ‘This may assist me,’ however the minute she touched me, I had a panic assault simply from being so drained, and I used to be like, ‘Do not contact me’. And the poor lady, I do know she in all probability thought, ‘What did I do?’ However I could not clarify to her, I am actually so sleep disadvantaged and out of my head, making an attempt to attain each jobs, plus be there as a lot as I might for my kids that I used to be simply gone. That is an enormous reminiscence for me.
Jessica [Alba] was candy and great to work with. After I met James Cameron, wow. He instructed me about my character, instructed me what they wished, and stated she’s in all probability 100 or extra years previous, so that is what she’s doing with the kids. She’s getting the DNA to maintain herself younger, and that is why she’s chasing them. So it was so fascinating.
However then, I can not bear in mind who was making the present on the time [showrunner Charles H. Eglee]… they determined it was going to be all younger folks. They removed everyone who was over 40. Cameron left, and it turned a really totally different present. So I used to be gone, we have been all gone, sadly. However I do imagine [that] if James Cameron’s model had been allowed to develop, it will have been a really fascinating present.
Darkish Angel aired for two seasons on Fox from 2000-2002. As the primary TV collection created by and government produced by James Cameron, Darkish Angel arrived with nice fanfare. Nonetheless, the formidable sci-fi collection was costly to supply, and rankings fell all through season 1. By the point Nana Customer was revealed as Darkish Angel‘s huge unhealthy, the present was on the bubble for cancellation.
Fox renewed Darkish Angel for season 2, however the present was retooled to focus extra on the younger X-5 characters, with Max receiving a foil in Joshua (Jensen Ackles), her troublemaking ‘brother.’ Darkish Angel dropped most of season 1’s story in favor of a brand new thriller about why the X-5s have been created. As Nana Customer stated, most of season 1’s antagonists, like Renfro and Donald Lydecker (John Savage), have been dropped or turned recurring characters.
Nana Customer appeared in Darkish Angel for six episodes, and Dr. Elizabeth Renfro was killed off early in season 2. Darkish Angel deliberate to return for season 3, however on the final minute, Fox canceled the present. The community’s try to retool the collection and concentrate on Max and the younger X-5 characters, in addition to extra mutant-style villains, failed to spice up rankings.
James Cameron wasn’t as hands-on for Darkish Angel season 2, however the Academy Award-winning director returned to direct the 90-minute season 2 finale, “Freak Nation.” Darkish Angel ended on a cliffhanger, however final yr, Jessica Alba acknowledged she would return for a Darkish Angel reboot if Cameron additionally got here again.
Darkish Angel‘s ship has sailed for Nana Customer, nevertheless it appears like a chaotic however memorable expertise for her after her iconic run as Main Kira on Star Trek: Deep House 9. Virtually 25 years later, Nana Customer’s revelation about Dr. Renfro is a cool and welcome tidbit for Darkish Angel followers.