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As Raffi Musiker on the final season of Star Trek: Picard, actress Michelle Hurd, 56, is on the trail of stolen weapons in an attempt to stop a terrorist attack. But back on Earth, the native New Yorker is busy on set in Sydney, where she’s processing the end of Picard and the loss of her Law & Order: Special Victims Unit castmate, Richard Belzer.
What are you doing in Australia?
I’m shooting a film. It’s a big Sony Studio movie with a release date in an actual theater and all that kind of stuff. I’m really excited. It’s a fun rom-com project, which I feel like we all need a little of right now — a little positive, a little love.
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Do you enjoy traveling for work?
I do love the travel part of getting to explore different countries and different states and I’ve done this many times. When I did [the TV series] Ash vs Evil Dead, I was in New Zealand for five months. I’ve had just a few days [in Australia]. I was celebrating my mother’s 90th birthday, and she wanted to do a Caribbean cruise, and there just happened to be a weekend cruise in Miami that worked out perfectly. I flew from Miami to California to Sydney, and the same day that I landed, I had fittings, hair and makeup and all that stuff. I am completely out of sorts right now. I don’t really know where I am yet.
When you get settled and have time to yourself, what will you do?
I’m a fitness person, so I will find a gym. Because that’s my most important thing — to be able to find where I’m going to work out. That’s my church. [My body is] my temple, and it’s the only one I’ve got, so I want to make sure I take care of her. So the first thing I’ll do is locate a gym, and then I’ll be calm. I just downloaded [Sydney’s] little bike app, so I’m just going to get on a bike and tool around.
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