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EXCERPT:
Fans of 'Stargate SG-1' often cite the sixth season episode 'Abyss' among
their favourites. In it, Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) is captured by
Ba'al, who tortures O'Neill for information left behind by a Tok'ra implant.
Except, for most of the shooting, Simon was actually torturing a stand-in.
"It was very difficult, also because I was pretty new in the show and I hadn’
t worked with Rick [Richard Dean Anderson] before. Rick had to get out of town
- I think he was doing a ‘Discovery’ show or one of those kind of things. So
I worked with him for one day only and the rest of the time I worked with a
stand-in. It’s very very hard because as an actor you are reacting the whole
time, and to get a guy standing there - he looks like Rick, he’s a great guy,
but he’s reading off a script. It took about two weeks to shoot that episode
because there were a lot of special effects. But yeah, ninety percent of it was with the stand-in."
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EXCERPT:
Fans of 'Stargate SG-1' often cite the sixth season episode 'Abyss' among
their favourites. In it, Jack O'Neill (Richard Dean Anderson) is captured by
Ba'al, who tortures O'Neill for information left behind by a Tok'ra implant.
Except, for most of the shooting, Simon was actually torturing a stand-in.
"It was very difficult, also because I was pretty new in the show and I hadn’
t worked with Rick [Richard Dean Anderson] before. Rick had to get out of town
- I think he was doing a ‘Discovery’ show or one of those kind of things. So
I worked with him for one day only and the rest of the time I worked with a
stand-in. It’s very very hard because as an actor you are reacting the whole
time, and to get a guy standing there - he looks like Rick, he’s a great guy,
but he’s reading off a script. It took about two weeks to shoot that episode
because there were a lot of special effects. But yeah, ninety percent of it was with the stand-in."
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