skip to main |
skip to sidebar
This is interesting:
Exclusive: Inside CSI's Battle for Katee Sackhoff
This is seriously frakked up.
Sources confirm to me exclusively that Battlestar Galactica's ass-kicking Katee Sackhoff was thisclose to becoming Jorja Fox's pseudo-replacement next season on CSI. In fact, she was considered to be such a lock for the new series-regular role of Bryce Adams that exec producers Carol Mendelsohn and Naren Shankar, both huge fans of the actress, were practically rolling a red carpet all the way to her trailer.
But...
Oh, come on, you knew there was a "but" coming. After seeing Sackhoff read for the part of the sexy new CSI on the graveyard shift, executives at both CBS (who declined to comment for this story) and Jerry Bruckheimer Television remained unconvinced that they had found their Bryce. And, unfortunately, their opinion won out.
Told you it was a frakked-up story.
Source
Lot of news as we get closer and closer to BSG-Day. This in from the TV Squad:
Possible Spoilers
Katee Sackhoff talks Battlestar Galactica
Early this afternoon (at least for me here on the east coast), Katee Sackhoff participated in a conference call with reporters, discussing her part as Starbuck in Battlestar Galactica, both in seasons past and the upcoming final season of the series.
A few highlights:
* Katee was asked about the significance of the last supper image promo for season four. She mentions how so many people try to interpret the photo, but she says, at least the way she saw it, the cast would have all had to have been in on it for it to really mean something.
* She was asked if, like Michael Hogan (and other recently-revealed Cylons), her reaction would be negative if she were revealed to be a Cylon. She said she was probably indifferent to the thought. She also said that she thinks Michael's still in disbelief.
* They're currently shooting episode 14, and she is no closer to having answers now (at least with regards to her relationship with Anders) than she was at the end of the third season.
* Director Ron Moore was the first director she can recall that has ever said "thank you" after every take.
* If she could take one item with her from the show when it's over it would be her flight suit, helmet and gun belt. "Drive right off the set and go have the things bronzed."
* She said the cast has been told who the final Cylon is but she still can't believe it. She thinks the final Cylon should be revealed in the final episode, but she's not sure exactly who it really is for certain. She's also not sure if this final Cylon will be revealed in the first run of episodes or not, as she doesn't read through each entire script to know that.
* She agrees with Ron Moore that there shouldn't be a Battlestar Galactica movie after the series is over. She also says that, as of now, she has no interest in being in one if it does happen.
* She said if she had total control over what happens to her character, she'd have her die. She wants Starbuck to find some form of peace, and if that means death or something else, as long as she ends up happy somehow.
* She said she's learned not to hang around online reading about how she's doing on the show, as it would take 100 positive remarks to make her feel better from reading one negative one.
* She said this seasons definitely going to shock people and probably ruffle some peoples' feathers. Be prepared to see things not all wrapped up nicely with a bow at the end of the series.
* Originally Starbuck was being cast as being a 35 year-old woman, but then they went with her.
* Maybe I heard this wrong, but I'm pretty sure she said she could best see Starbuck winding up with Leoben when all's said and done.
* She was asked if she'd have interest in David Eick's upcoming Children of Men TV project, and she says she'd follow Eick to the end of the Earth. So ... Maybe?
This in from the SciFi Wire:
Katee Sackhoff, who plays Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on SCI FI Channel's Battlestar Galactica, told SCI FI Wire that she's concerned about finding parts as challenging, formidable and powerful once the show ends after its upcoming fourth and final season.
"It's extremely difficult," Sackhoff said in an interview at SCI FI Channel's upfront presentation to advertisers in New York last week. "It's a definite worry. People ask me if I'm worried about being pigeonholed in science fiction, and definitely not. That's not a fear of mine at all."
Sackhoff has had a few other roles during breaks from Battlestar, notably as the murderous Sarah Corvus in NBC's Bionic Woman (created by Battlestar executive producer David Eick) and as a doomed woman in the 2007 straight-to-DVD sequel film White Noise 2: The Light.
"What I'm worried about is finding strong, fun, exciting, inspirational characters, because Kara is," Sackhoff said. "With all of her flaws and drama, she's still an extremely strong woman first and foremost. And I think that's what I'm most worried about, is if I'm ever going to find that again."
But Sackhoff doubted that she'll play Starbuck again. "I do not think that we'll be back" in a film or subsequent series, she said. "I think there's something to be said for just ending. But then again, I don't think anyone thought Sex and the City would do a movie, and we're kind of following suit with them in ending how they ended."
