Relendo essa resposta e esta entrevista com o Spiner , soa como Spiner não era apenas um dos atores que foram as primeiras escolhas sugeridas pelos criadores / agências de elenco antes de começarem as audições.
Brent Spiner, no entanto, passou pelo que parece ter sido um processo normal de audição.
Let’s go back to your TNG days. How quickly, or not, did you get a handle on Data and how to play him?
Spiner: I think fairly quickly because I realized pretty early on that there was really no precedent for it, that I could do pretty much anything I wanted and the audience would either accept it or they wouldn’t. But there was nobody to say, “Oh, that’s not what an android would do” or “That’s not how an android would behave,” because there weren’t any other androids at that point on weekly television. Even in the audition process, there was the question of, “Should we play this character like a machine, like a robot, or should we make him closer to being a person?” And we all agreed, finally, that it would be really tedious if I played him like a machine and a robot for seven years, if we went that long. So we decided to make him much more of a person who was growing in his humanity as time went on.
Parece que, apesar das escolhas iniciais do criador, Spiner simplesmente ganhou o papel com sua audição.
