Yahoo News Picard star Michael Dorn explains surprising change made to Worf in season 3
Star Trek: Picard star Michael Dorn has explained the surprising changes to Worf for the third season of the sci-fi show.
The character will sport a new look in the upcoming season, with his hairstyle changing to grey. In an exclusive chat with Digital Spy, Dorn and co-star Michelle Hurd spoke about the latest season, which premiered earlier this week (February 16).
“When I had the Zoom meeting with the producers, with Terry [Matalas] and Akiva [Goldsman], they said, 'Well, I said, I want Worf to be this'. And he said, 'Well, we want Worf to be that’” Dorn began.
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“They said we want Worf to have grey hair. Like, everything's grey. And my little ego went, 'I don't want to be old',” he continued. “And then I thought of Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill, and that character Pai Mei, with the white hair... I mean, he could kill anybody.
“And so that was my sort of thinking, you know. That's what they did and we agreed on that. And I think it worked perfectly.”
Michelle Hurd, who plays Raffi Musiker on the show, echoed the sentiments of her co-star, revealing that she had a similar discussion with producers ahead of the first season.
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"When the very first season, when we did a Zoom consult to talk about what we wanted to do for Raffi. One of the things that I really wanted to make sure was that she had a huge silhouette of unruly curls," she began.
"I wanted to make sure that all those delicious brown and Black creatures can see themselves and can see that their fabulous crown of natural curls is alive and well in 2400 – that we're still here, we're still proud and still loud.
"It's important because optics matter," she continued. "And, you know, this is my crown. It doesn't need to be straightened. It doesn't need to be trying to fit into some kind of homogenised concept of beauty."
Star Trek: Picard airs on Paramount+ in the US and on Prime Video in the UK.
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