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OFFICIAL BABYLON 5 MAGAZINES
Vol.2 #6 & 7

FROM THE SET: Joe Nazarro on Day 2 of 7 of shooting "Sleeping In Light"

While Sheridan himself is absent, Bruce Boxleitner is certainly around to watch the scene from the sidelines. "Kind of sad, closing up the old bucket," he muses to director of photography John Flinn. Boxleitner is still sporting the beard from the final episodes of season four; now silver like his hair; needless to say, 'grandpa' jokes are very much the order of the day, but Boxleitner takes it all with good humour.
Vol. 2 #6, January 1999

TO SLEEP, PERCHANCE TO DREAM - A Report From the Set of Sleeping In Light -- by Joe Nazzaro & Sheelagh Wells

In terms of the character's age, Boxleitner tried to play Sheridan as though he was in his early 60s but had been through a great deal. "I tried not to move as fast, just in the physicality of it. I kept thinking of Sean Connery: that's who I'd want Sheridan to be played by if I wasn't doing it. I looked at him, and you don't play old, because that's not an old age. We've already pushed our life spans into our 80s, and I've got a feeling in a couple of hundred years, that will improve even more. I just tried to play him a little crustier all around, especially the scene where I return to the station. It's a very nostalgic scene, all by himself, and there's some maintenance guy there who's trying to put on the military airs and so on, but I tried to be a little crustier, and also a little more loving and a little more patient."

"Anyway, that's what I did; I just tried to move a little slower, a little more deliberate and I tried to watch the physicality of older men. We have some guys on the set who are in their late 50s and early 60s, so I was able to watch them at work. I still think he's a vital man and still moved around, he wasn't physically impaired or anything like that, although I gave him a little limp, a little something from the old days, more of a rock to his walk, a game leg. My right knee is starting to go on me, so I took my own feeling of how my knee feels sometimes when I get up in the morning and I sort of gimp, so I was able to use that more. Other than that, I just ried to rely on the beard and the white hair to sell it more than me trying to act like an old man. I gruffed up my voice a little more too, but that's about it."

Not surprisingly, the most emotional scene for Boxleitner was Sheridan's final goodbye to Delenn, which had most of the crew sniffling while it wa being shot. "We really looked at each other and said good-bye," he remembers. "If it is the end, it's sad the way the show ended for all ofu ad for the charactes as well [at the end of the 4th season]. It was really difficult, but I thought the moment was very emotional and full. I do know there was one humros hing, and if you talk to Mira, she'll admit this I'm sure, she walked off and said, 'Oh my God, I hope we don't have to do that again!' and I guess I had squeezed her so tightly that there was an indentation from the pin she wears in her costume. She was actually in pain and I didn't know it. I apologised to her later on, but I guess love hurts too."

Mira Furlan

"There was some really emotional, draining stuff to perform, but on the other hand, I love oing ta kind of material..."

In playing the older version of Delenn, Furlan tried to play her as though some of the incredibly rich experiences the character had experienced in life would give her some kind of emotional weight. "Ididn't show that so much externally, but it's there as I was playing those scenes, and I have to say. Bruce was an enormous support and help in that episode and we really reached a wonderful level."

Jerry Doyle

"Looking at all the people out there, it's what will be 20 years from now; we'll all be sittig run a the Old Actors' Home -- 'Hey, pull up your wheelchair, Bruce, I've got another story!'"

TURNING BACK THE CLOCK ­ Bruce Boxleitner -- By Lou Anders & Eric Frederickson

Bruce is in excellent spirits, given that the worry and stress he's carried for weeks now over Babylon 5's future has just broken with the announcement of the green light for season five during the shoot. "I was absolutely sure that this was going to turn around and bite me in the back end, and what a powerless place to be in," he says, speaking of his recent mental state. By contrast, today he is feeling grateful and lucky. "Very relieved and thankful," he says. "I'm not cocky about it at all. For me, this has been sort of a personal triumph as well, because I've done another television series, and it doesn't make you feel more confident. It only shakes you more, because you realise how lucky you are that it's still going.

"I'm very humbled that I can still do a show. I know so many guys, my contemporaries that I started with, who are in very hard times right now, lean times, I feel very good ­ knock on wood ­ that this show has given me my career."
Vol. 2 #2 August 1998

THE LAST REEL - Day 1 shooting "Objects At Rest" (uncredited)

Stepping onto Stage B, it's immediately obvious that this isn't just another day on set, but a momentous and sombre occasion. A mournful quiet has descended upon the cast and crew, their eyes drinking in the sights and sounds, gathering memories, possibly for the last time. Painful though it may be to acknowledge, one of the realities of television is that people move on. Word has filtered down that Objects at Rest marks the end of John C. Flinn III's tenure as Director of Photography at Babylonian Productions. It's evident from the faces of those present that his loss will be deeply felt.

The strangeness is further compounded at lunch. "I'm outta here," says Bruce Boxleitner, casually dropping this bombshell in an off-hand manner at the line for the catering truck. It seems that he too will be moving on. After helming this station and this show for four years, Bruce says that "this is it for me." One thing is certain: he will be sorely missed. The action of the day mirrors the mood, as the shooting includes Emperor Mollari's final strained goodbye to Sheridan and Delenn. Throughtout the day, oscillating back and forth between the fiction and the reality, a dark cloud seems to hang over all.

Sheridan: "... My job was to keep this place going, make it stable. With everyone going away, I have to wonder... have I failed?" As he exits the stage for a break between takes, Bruce confides that Sheridan's feelings are "My feelings too. How did he [Joe] know?"

The final day - ... Chants of "Bruce, Bruce, Bruce" deprive Babylon 5's leading man of any chance of a quiet exit. "I just finished the scene. Get off my mark!" he jokes to Bill, as he takes his jplace before the crowd to say his final words. "What am I going to do after John Flinn's speech this afternoon and Andreas the other day? They've taken all the words. I don't know what to say, but I love all of you, and it's been the greatest time for four years, so before I start crying... Come on now, this is cutting into my drinking time. It really is. Be a man of action, few words, right? Joe, write me a speech, will you? Anyway, I just want to say thank you to everybody, and I love you all, and B5 forever!"
From Vol. 2 #7 February 1999