Welcome to episode 30 of the Thursdeighties podcast! In this episode I continue my conversation with Academy Award winning make-up artist and Star Trek super-fan Doug Drexler, whose career has moved at warp speed since the day he decided to pursue his dream of working in movies and television.
Doug's story begins where so many great eighties stories do — with passion, hustle, and a dream that everyone else probably thought was crazy. Trained under makeup master Dick Smith, Drexler worked his way through some of the decade's most iconic films, from The Hunger and Starman to Manhunter and Fatal Attraction. Then came Dick Tracy, and with it, an Oscar, a BAFTA, and a Saturn Award for his jaw-dropping character makeup on the film's rogues' gallery.
But for Doug, the real dream was always Star Trek. From letter-writing superfan in the late 60s to designing the iconic Enterprise NX-01 herself in the early 2000s - and on to the reimagined Battlestar Galactica, as well as Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek homage series The Orville - Doug has proven time and time again that he is an artist who has literally never stopped dreaming.
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