BSG Cast & Crew interviews

[Sci-Fi]

From IGN:

Adorably Dangerous: An Interview with Nicki Clyne

Cute and confident are but a few words to describe Battlestar Galactica's Cally. Though, Sci-Fi Brain's Aeolus speaks with actress Nicki Clyne about why her character is adorably dangerous...

by aeolus
17-03-2006

Don’t let those darling doe-eyes fool you, Battlestar Galactica’s Specialist Cally can be quite deadly. Although a supporting character on the acclaimed space opera, this Viper deckhand—portrayed by actress Nicki Clyne—has had enough story involvement to be a series regular. In the third episode of season one, Bastille Day, Clyne’s character is taken hostage, nearly raped, and shot in the stomach by her attacker. Though, in a brazen act of defiance, she bites off his ear!

Click on the link to read the entire interview (2 pages)

[ShippyChick]

Thanks for the link! You always share the best interviews!

[Toll Verliebt]

That was great! I've alway's loved Cally and that interview really gave insight to her character.

[Ascended Times.2]

Interesting friends, they don't watch the show they're best friend is in....
Other than that, good find.

[SnoggingPicard]

Awww! Cally's a cutie!

[k8tbug1]

Great article!! Cally's one of those Characters thats slowly become a favorite of mine over the past 2 years

[Sci-Fi]

Sam's Sister over at the Pegasus Galaxy forums interviewed RDM at the Creation Entertainment's Grand Slam Scifi Summit convention in Pasadena, California. Click on the link to read the interview (Beware: some S3 spoilers):

Pegasus Galaxy Interviews RDM

also:

Ron Moore at Grand Slam Scifi Summit, Convention notes and photos

This link recaps the RDM Q&A with the audience and a few pictures.

[DOIKECARTER]

thanks for this one! I was craving for anything on season 2/3

[k8tbug1]

Thank you so much!!!! I feel lost without my galactica, and this has helped!!! Is it October yet?????

[Sci-Fi]

From iF Magazine:

Exclusive Profile: BATTLESTAR GALACTICA'S PRESIDENT - MARY MCDONNELL

The actress discusses the evolution of her character this season and why her husband makes the show "appointment" viewing

By: SEAN ELLIOTT
3/15/2006

BATTLESTAR GALACTICA actress Mary McDonnell is a unique, intelligent woman that speaks her mind, wants a female president in the White House, and takes her role as President Laura Roslin on one of television’s top-rated sci-fi series very seriously.

Click on the link to read the interview

[k8tbug1]

Thanks for the link!!! You always give us great articles and Mary McDonnell is my fav actress!!!!!! Many many thanks!!

[Sci-Fi]

From Starburst Magazine:

BSG Katee Sackhoff Falling Star

We meet Katee Sackhoff, the actress who has shot to fame as Viper pilot Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace

by Steven Eramo
Starburst Special #74

In the second season episode Resistance, Kara ‘Starbuck’ Thrace fell in love with Samuel Anders, a Cylon resistance fighter on the planet Caprica. She was forced to leave him behind when she returned to the Galactica, but promised Anders she’d be back to rescue him. Unfortunately, Kara has been unable to do so, and this is preying on her conscience. She’s subsequently turned to drinking in an effort to deal with her guilt and this, not surprisingly, has affected her job performance. It’s a real about-face for the character and one that took actress Katee Sackhoff, who plays Starbuck, a little time to wrap her head around.

“As the latter half of this season unfolds, Starbuck gets knocked off her superstar pedestal. In fact, I think she’s giving Colonel Tigh [Michael Hogan] a run for his money when it comes to the drinking,” notes Sackhoff. “You know how they say that you inevitably turn into the person you most despise if you don’t figure out the reasons why you despise that person. Well, that’s what my character is doing. We’re talking head-on, full speed ahead, which is fun because it’s a completely different side of her.

“At the same time I was a little worried because I wanted to make it believable. I thought, ‘How can Starbuck suddenly go from being so capable and on top of her game – at least where her job is concerned – to someone who is everything she despises’. The whole thing starts in the episode Scar, and it was one of the biggest challenges I’ve faced yet on this show, mainly because my ego as Starbuck got in the way. I kept saying to our producers, ‘Starbuck would never do this,’ and they’d say, ‘Yes, she would. At some point if she can’t solve her problems on her own, she’s going to turn to drink, drugs, something to numb the pain.’

“I just feel Starbuck has lost hope. Everyone has turned down her request to go back to Caprica to get Anders. Here’s another man whose death she’s going to feel responsible for because she promised to return and save him. Funnily enough, some fans have a problem with Starbuck wanting to go back to Caprica. If you read the Galactica message boards, some of them believe I’m romantically involved with Michael Trucco, who plays Anders, which isn’t true. He already has the most beautiful, talented, lovely fiancée in the world. Yes, Michael is a great actor and person and we have wonderful on-screen chemistry together, but my main reason for wanting his character to return is that it would be another problem for Starbuck. She’d be caught up in a triangle where she loves Lee, and is also in love with Anders. It would be another fibre of Starbuck’s being to pick away at and unravel. That’s why I want Anders to come back, and he is coming back,” reveals the actress with a smile.

Read the full interview in Starburst Special #74

[ShippyChick]

There is a podcast interview with Jamie Bamber at http://www.sliceofscifi.com

It is #49 and Jamie's part starts at about 31 or 32 minutes in. It is also available is a MP3 and at iTunes.

[DOIKECARTER]

http://blog.scifi.com/battlestar/arc...006/03/#000410


Spoilers implied. Those who don´t want to know about the season finale shouldn´t read this one. Those who felt intrigued and want to know more about it...enjoy!
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"What happened to Adama in the season finale to change him so much? Why would a man who spent decades of his adult life standing watch for the Cylon return suddenly give in and allow the military to stand down? How could he convince himself that the Cylons weren't coming back after 1 year when the last time they waited 40 years? He knew settlement was wrong so why didn't he offer any resistance? "

I think people have a remarkable ability to convince themselves of just about anything. Adama, like everyone else in the fleet, had been constantly on the run, constantly under stress, and constantly in danger of losing his life for months on end, with virtually no break from the metal walls surrounding him day in and day out. When, finally, the people decided to end the long sojourn and settle on New Caprica, he had little choice but to comply with the results of a democratic election which hinged on that very question. And as the days turned into weeks, and the weeks into months, people began to relax, to believe that maybe they had really turned a corner, had really found a place to lay down their burdens and start a new life. Adama was just as vulnerable to that attractive idea as anyone else, and as the men and women under him began to clamor for a new life, as the political leadership of New Caprica began to demand more and more military resources to support the civilian population, there came the point where Adama began to believe in the mirage too. He's not perfect. He never was. He couldn't bring himself to leave his ship, but as age and fatigue began to set in, he started to let down his guard just a little -- not all at once and never completely, but just enough.

There were also practical considerations. He was entirely alone out here. No Admiralty to call for reinforcements or intelligence, no Justice Ministry to prosecute soldiers who simply never came back from the surface of New Caprica, and no friendly ear in the office of the president to get needed resources for the military ships maintaining their lonely vigil up in orbit. He was alone and he was tired. It's almost as simple as that.

I remember one of my most vivid memories from the immediate post 9/11 period was opening up the newspaper and reading about a physical confrontation in the streets between members of the New York police department and the New York fire department. It was heartbreaking, it was infuriating and it was illuminating. People are people. Enormous events happen, history pivots around us and we tell ourselves that everything has changed, that we're irrevocably different from this day forward -- until the next time everything changes. Adama made a mistake. They all did. And as he is wont to say, they will all have to live with it.


"What is up with the pudgified Apollo? Too much chunky munky B&J? "

We're going to hint at some of the reasons for Lee's physical, er... changes in the first few episodes, then deal with it in more detail later. Overall, we're going to be hinting at a lot of things that happened in the intervening year over the first few episodes, then do more stuff with it later, as the season progresses.


"You have giant, steel balls. My head is still spinning from being smacked in the head with them in the form of Lay Down Your Burdens Part 2. It seems like you are operating under the philosophy that if the audience could possibly come up with a plot idea then it isn't good enough for BSG. Am I reading that right? I know I never would have guessed that we would suddenly jump 380 days ahead, but I love it. Will we get to see Tigh and Starbuck put all past hostility behind them and become a super bad ass resistance fighting duo with Anders, the chief, and Cally as their sidekicks? I'd like this not only because of the Tigh/Stabuck dynamic, but also because it would be nice to see Tigh do some good again. I loved the arc at the beginning of season two where all he could do was [censored] up while in command. However, since that point it seems that Tigh's only purpose for existing is to expose to the audience the wrong opinion or bad idea. Everything that comes out of his mouth is obviously the stupid or shortsighted answer which is invariable and immediately undercut by one of the wiser characters. He didn't like the documentary, the blackbird project... Have you noticed this theme? Personally I love Tigh and want him to be good for something again. Oh, and that first shot of him on New Caprica in that old man hat was priceless. Thanks. "

They're teflon, actually.

Anyway, I think you'll be happy to know that we've got some real meaty stuff planned for the Colonel in the first few episodes. I also felt that we didn't use Tigh as effectively in the later part of Season Two, and I was eager to get him back into the thick of things. He's got a sizable role in the initial episodes, and there are some enormous changes and shocks coming for his character next season.


"What happened to Zarek? Given his help getting Baltar elected, I would have expected him to have recieved a pretty nice 'reward', perhaps as VP? Did Baltar even have a VP? We never see Zarek post-election or a year later on New Caprica. Given Zarak's penchant for political mayhem, I would think that his fate would be one of significant interest. Perhaps we will see this early in Season 3? "

You will be seeing Zarek again and early in the season. He was the Vice President, but his relationship with Baltar went south relatively quickly, and he simply refused to cooperate once the Cylon occupation began.



There are some permanent buildings in the settlement, but it seemed plausible that to start an entire city from scratch would be a massive undertaking to say the least. It also seemed that without a strong leader like Laura Roslin to helm this kind of effort, that the organizational problems would add up and that the project could easily get stalled or delayed. Now, add to that various unknowns like disease and unfamiliar weather patterns as well as the difficulties in exploiting the natural resources in a completely new environment, it didn't seem implausible that there'd still be a lot of people living in tents.


"Why is the fleet so concerned [about] elections? They are running for their lives, so I would think holding elections would be the least of their problems."

I felt right from the beginning that question of who was in charge and how a democratic society would deal with this situation was one of the fundamental questions of the show. If democracy means anything, it means that people get to decide who their leaders are and what kind of life they choose to lead. And the operative word is "choose." Democracies are about choices, some made intelligently and thoughtfully, and some not so much. Adama and the Galactica were faced with an immediate question as to the role of the military in this surviving population: were they still the servants of the people, or were they the overseers? Adama's choice was to preserve the idea of their society, indeed of their entire civilization while still striving to protect them from their enemies both within and without. It was, and continues to be a difficult balancing act, but as he said in "Resurrection Ship": it's not enough to survive, you have to worthy of suriving.

If the military simply took choice away from the people of the fleet, if it simply decided that the senior commanders knew best and that was that, then the people out there in those ships become irrelevant. They're cargo. It's a military world and a military society and everything else is secondary. Down that road lies the cautionary tale of Admiral Cain and the battlestar Pegasus. One Adama and Galactica decided not to go down that road, then the entire panoply of democracy was in play -- representation by consent and elections to determine those representatives.


Posted by Ron at 08:29 PM

[Lady Snow]

You will be seeing Zarek again and early in the season. He was the Vice President, but his relationship with Baltar went south relatively quickly, and he simply refused to cooperate once the Cylon occupation began.

YES! Fantastic! I knew there was a reason I absolutely adore Tommy boy.