В процессе разговора с чатиком рандомно пошла гуглить гендерные вопросы в Вавилоне 5, открыла сама себе бездну:

«Ideally, what you want to do when you create an alien character is to go for a look that's, well, *alien*, something that's not quite right about it. You can do this from the outside in, with really weird makeup, or from the inside out. We have some of the former, and Delenn is one of the latter.

What we have, basically, is a female actor playing a male character. Women simply *move* differently than men do; the gestures, the tilt of the head, the smile, it's just a shade different. So you now take that, and wrap it inside a male character, aided by prosthetics to make the face and body more masculine. Now, when you look at the finished product, you are looking at a male, but there's something wrong about it somewhere, and it makes you a little uncertain. The first time I saw Mira in full makeup, it looked great. And there was something very unusual about it, that sense that your eyes and your brain are in conflict somewhere about what you're seeing.» 8/9/1992

«As you know, it was our plan to go for a very androgynous Delenn - a male voice (which was to be computer/electronically altered), female mannerisms, and a very ambiguous makeup. We've now gone through about every possible electronic alteration, and frankly, none of them sound as convincing as I'd like. Many of them sound *okay*, but we've taken a hard and fast position on this show that "okay" is simply not sufficient.

So we've decided to leave Delenn female, with the performer's original voice intact and unaltered. Interestingly enough, when the performance was shown at Wishcon and LosCon, the audience responded very positively to her natural voice, urging that it be left alone. Which is now what we're going to do.» 12/14/1992

1992 год, между прочим.

И без связи с предыдущим, про 4/5 сезон, чтобы не потерять.

У меня как раз была неделя отпуска летом, которую нужно взять, но вряд ли я куда-то поеду. Вот это будет мой план на эту неделю: The J. Michael Straczynski Message Archive