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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: Howie2000slc (Odo's file, contact) @ 19:56:45 on Nov 07, 2005

Baltrar became the VP not because Laura is stupid, but because laura saw that the only way she was going to win the VP election for her side was to drop the guy she already had running and put Baltar (someone who made a huge speech and proved that he can spin a alful lot of shit off the cuff) in the running, he was publicly liked, and she knew that he was the "safe" bet.

the Bet paid off..

not moments after she chose baltar for the running she said "better the devil you know", she knew that he was unstable, hell a day after he's VP he yells at her.. she is well aware but like you said they are in a time of war.. sometimes you just have to make do with what you have, and with a flawed crew (tigh) that they already have its no suprise that Baltar's oddities can go unnoticed, or at least not have too much attention paid to them.

if i wanted to watch a show in which the main characters where all perfect and had no flaws and could solve every problem by hitting a reset or pulling some new ability out of there ass then i would go back to watching Voyager..



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RE: LOL! I love this woman. :) | Report this post to moderator
By: sectari (Odo's file, contact) @ 16:51:43 on Nov 04, 2005

Yeah, I've noticed that they haven't shown Baltar doing much vice-presidential, and have indeed wondered what would happen if he's on camera, giving a speech to the fleet, and has a "Number Six episode." I think the average colonial would be very concerned, to say the least.


-sectari

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