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Initially I objected to the Data makeup. I said, "Why do I need this makeup? Why can't I just look like me?" In fact, I said to Gene Roddenberry, "Don't you think that by this time in history, they would've figured out how to make skin look like skin?" And he said, "What makes you think that what you have isn't better than skin?" And I went, "Um, okay."

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Initially I objected to the Data makeup. I said, Why do I need this makeup? Why can't I just look like me? In fact, I said to Gene Roddenberry, Don't you think that by this time in history, they would've figured out how