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Katee Sackhoff Criticizes Dirk Benedict

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By GustavoLeao / 01:45, 3 November 2005 / General Genre/SciFi

The new issue of TV Zone Special features an interview with actress Katee Sackhoff, who plays the new, female Starbuck in Ronald D. Moore's version of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. Here are a few excerpts in which she defends her version of the hotshot space pilot.

While actor Richard Hatch, who played Apollo in the original GALACTICA series, has become a regular in the new cast, original Starbuck Dirk Benedict has been openly critical of GALACTICA's new incarnation, and Sackhoff positively bristles when she talks about her predecessor.

"If Dirk pitched up to work on the show I'd probably quit," she says. "I met him in Los Angeles and I thought we'd really hit it off, he was a great guy, he was very complimentary and very un-Hollywood. Then he turned around a month later and talked complete crap about the show and the actors on it. He wrote an article saying the network sold out and my character was more brash than his character.

"I felt like he'd stabbed me in the back. I know that sounds like me being very sensitive but I felt very befriended by him, then I read that about a month later.

"If you add up the amount of time Dirk Benedict spent playing the character, not the years obviously but the number of episodes, I'm more Starbuck than he is, so put that in your pipe and smoke it."

More from Katee can be found at the TV Zone website

To read the full article, get TV Zone Special #66 at your local newsstand or subscribe today.


BATTLESTAR GALACTICA: "The Official Companion" from Titan Books is available in the U.S.A., Canada, United Kingdom, and Deutschland.



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RE: LOL! I love this woman. :) | Report this post to moderator
By: kzoodata (Odo's file, contact) @ 03:36:34 on Nov 06, 2005

I love this woman, too. Cute, hot, and brash; you gotta respect her, no matter how silly the whole thing is. Her character on the show is one of the best (I'd say after Olmos and McDonnell).

On the whole, it sounds like she's reacting to headlines, to which we all succumb too easily. Put Dirk on the show as, say, Count Iblis, and the whole thing will change; everybody gets along. Still, I hope she keeps it up and keeps speaking out. Nice to know there are real people doing these roles.

Go Galactica!

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RE: LOL! I love this woman. :) | Report this post to moderator
By: TRexx (Odo's file, contact) @ 22:00:39 on Nov 03, 2005

Quote from Ensign Ro-Your-Boat:
The new BSG is a proverbial godsend;


As was ENT, to about the same number of core fans.

Baltar, like T'Pol, is an example of how one bad apple can spoil the bunch -- when all other characters are written to be oblivious toward an obvious fruitcake. It can be entertainment for a specialty (sci-fi) audience, but it bombs as sensible mainstream drama. No surprise that BSG was a flop at its recent visit to NBC (see "Where Sci-Fi Need Not Apply").


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