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[Note: I consider direct quotes the property of the speaker and not Warner Brothers. Every word below is Bruce Boxleitner's.]

Babylon 5 Official Magazine #9

I didn't have to carry the burden of the amount of dialogue; Raye Birk did, so my job was very different. Raye had all these marvelous little quirky mannerisms that he gave the character: the fastidiousness, like the mustard tingling the sides of his mouth when he eats the sandwich. I don't often get the chance to really bounce off of somebody else, so even though I didn't have to talk that much, I still had to react and envision myself under the control of the mind drugs, the electric collars: I had to invent all those things. At this point, Sheridan was in a hell of a fix, and his whole thing was this standard prisoner of war thing, not to give in. They were throwing everything at him and I wanted to find some way somewhere, and this is where we may have disagreed, where it looks like he was about to break, but I think it was altered in the editing. I wanted to suggest that he was losing it and then pulled himself back from the brink, but the final product was pretty much resistance right from the beginning.

During the lighting, I did one thing that would probably be considered 'methody': when we lit and they brought in the second team, I stayed in the chair. It was a hard metal chair with corrugations in it, and it would really start to hurt after a while, but I would stay in there. There were no real clasps, those were CGI-ed in, but I really concentrated on staying in that chair as long as possible, even during the lighting set-ups when I could have got up and gone to my trailer or sat in my director's chair. I preferred to stay there so it would give me a sense of being locked in that chair. At some points in the story, I was supposed to be sitting there all night.

Well, [in Babylon 5 blooper reel] I was doing Billy Bob Thornton [from the movie Sling Blade], and when I looked up, there was Joe, who'd just walked in and was watching, so I said 'I like that Joe Straczynski feller; that young man writes good!' and he turned around and walked out. Maybe I was going a little batty by then!