Mary Chieffo - The rise to prominence and power as a strong female leader, Part 3

Bryan and Lili conclude the 3rd part of their extended interview with the one and only powerful woman Mary Chieffo. In Mary Chieffo speaks to hear early days as a child of two successful actor parents in Hollywood then moving into a decision her father Michael Chieffo helped her with in the New York based Julliard school. Mary shares her affinity for Shakespeare tying this in full circle with the Klingon realm and her role as Chancellor L'Rell. Mary conveys she was lucky to play characters in school like Queen Elizabeth, to characters in Richard the III, Macbeth and how drawing out the Klingon Voq relationship with her character L'Rell was a very feminist style of character portrayal layers in Star Trek: Discovery. Mary touches on her film projects, "Every Morning", Plus, "Iago: The Green Eyed Monster", the Tribeca Festival musical prequel to a futuristic take on Shakespeare's Othello.

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