no thoughts just Betty White during the roasting of William Shatner

LIVE RENE AUBERJONOIS REACTION

Odo’s line [in “Shadowplay”] “I don’t do faces faces very well,” triggers the eternal query, “Why not?” Since the writers hadn’t pinned down a definitive answer, Rene Auberjonois devised one of his own. “If there’s something for Odo to replicate that has a prototype, like a rat or a knapsack or a chair, he can replicate it exactly,” says the actor. “But because he is searching for his identity, even beyond the fact that by the third season he knows where he comes from, he cannot create a face for himself. It’s an identity problem for Odo, because he is a character who believes, in the strictest sense of the word, in telling the truth. And I believe he could make a face like Paul Newman or Quark, but he can’t create something that he doesn’t understand, and he doesn’t understand himself yet.”

— Terry J. Erdmann, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Companion (2000)

thinking about how rene auberjonois loved to just rip off the odo face prosthetic in funny ways after a day of filming (sometimes he’d end up actually ripping them, which is partly why they made so many for him) but specifically thinking about that behind the scenes shot of him after the very last day of filming, perched on the counter at vic’s lounge and ripping the face prosthetic off while everyone claps

(this is unfortunately the highest res version i can find of it, but have an even lower-res close up)

these are my other favorite examples of him (and terry farrell) doing this

(there’s at least another one or two pictures like this out there but they’re a bit horrifying lmao)