Isa has had to pretend to hide her character’s true identity for months (Picture: Amazon)

***Warning: Major Star Trek: Picard Spoilers Ahead***

Star Trek: Picard threw us straight into the action from the first episode on by setting us up with Dahj (Isa Briones) and her mission to find the retired former Starfleet captain, Jean-Luc Picard.

But no sooner had she found him, and he revealed to the young woman her heritage as his best friend Data’s daughter, things went from bad to worse when she was caught by those chasing her, and brutally killed.

Like, fully exploded into pieces so there’s no way she’s coming back, dead.


It was a major plot twist that no one saw coming – not even actress Isa Briones herself, who has revealed that she was even sold and auditioned for Dahj, not knowing she would actually then become Soji, Dahj’s twins who could be in mortal danger.



Speaking to Metro.co.uk, she said: ‘I didn’t find out that I was going to be playing multiple characters until my final callback, because someone let it slip.

‘They’re like “Yeah, so the story is gonna be about you and like your twin” and I was like, what?’

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‘I want double the pay, two meals a day and two trailers!,’ she laughed. ‘One for me and for my big personality.’

While that’s definitely a bit of a thrill for her as viewer of the show, as an actress she suddenly had to think fast on her feet to get into the headset of someone entirely new.

Dahj’s arrival at Chateau Picard gave him a new lease of life (Picture: Amazon)

Isa will now continue on in the story as the wise Soji (Picture: PA)

Isa explained: ‘I kind of, last-minute, had to figure out that dynamic and story, this is how the two of them are different how they’re the same, but as you can see, you’re not really going to see them together.

‘So that makes it a little difficult to be like, “Oh, this is how I would play this part in this, she would play this part”. It’s really just like, time to start a new character.’

So what’s it been like keeping this major secret from everyone?

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‘It’s been driving me crazy! Because no one knows who actually that is that they’re watching in that trailer,’ she laughed.

‘But I’m so excited I finally get to talk about it.’

Star Trek: Picard continues Friday on Amazon Prime Video in the UK.

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