New SciFi Wire Article

Sorry about the lack of updates once again. Hopefully the new episodes are going well, I can't wait to see them. The SciFi Wire has just posted up a new article on Starbuck and a potential love interest:


Galactica's Starbuck Finds Love
Katee Sackhoff, who plays Lt. Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the SCI FI Channel original series Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that she asked the producers to expand a storyline in which her character finds romance. "I have a love interest that comes in in episode four and five, and he left," Sackhoff said in an interview. "He was gone. And I thought to bring him back, and it's a big deal to have to bring him back, because basically you have to go back to Caprica again. ... It's a huge thing. It's a couple of episodes, if not more than that, to bring his character back, and I fought for that because we have great chemistry and I enjoy him."
Sackhoff said that the producers took her suggestion and are writing the character, played by Michael Trucco, back into the show. His return may end a streak of brief trysts for Starbuck, which Sackhoff believes are a product of her character's insecurities. "She is extremely vulnerable, and extremely fragile," she said. "And she wants so badly to be loved. And she doesn't know how to do that. She's been hurt so many times in her life. The easiest way for her to feel loved is to have sex with somebody, to feel that immediate connection. And I think that when she [did] do that and realized that wasn't what [she] wanted, again, she leaves them. So that's why it's a string of men and it's only one time or two times. But I think with the man that she met on Caprica, she finally gave her heart to someone. And it's a big thing for her, and we've been seeing the emotional toll it has taken for her, because she misses him a lot." In a separate interview, producer David Eick (whom Sackhoff calls an "actors' producer"), told SCI FI Wire that it was Sackhoff's performance that inspired a more three-dimensional take on the character. "You really find yourself writing Kara Thrace as the most vulnerable character, because Katee has that vulnerability, and she has that sort of tough exterior," Eick said. "And that balance, that sort of contradiction, really, is what's so interesting about the character. If she was just Han Solo with a haircut, you'd say, 'Okay, nice.' But it starts to feel a little bit cute; it starts to feel a little bit contrived. And the truth is, she's the most emotional. And yet she's the one who's the best shot, and she's probably the one that will pull the trigger first. And that's an interesting contradiction to us, and that contradiction was really provided by Katee."
Battlestar Galactica airs Fridays at 10 p.m. ET/PT.