Sackhoff and Hogan talk about the end of Battlestar Galactica

Friday, July 13, 2007

So after Battlestar Galactica’s third season, Col. Saul Tigh (Michael Hogan) had his eye popped out, killed his wife for helping the Cylons and then found out he was a Cylon sleeper. Capt. Kara ”Starbuck” Thrace (Katee Sackhoff) died (I almost stopped watching the show) and yet showed up in the last couple minutes to say she’s found Earth.

I almost can’t take it. It’s like they took a really great show and went crazy killing people and then “oops, you’re all bad guys now.” They’ve announce that this next season is the end and I’ll still end up watching it, because I’m hooked. Check out some of the tid-bits the actors mentioned during a recent interview.

This past season was such a pivotal one for Tigh and Starbuck, but your characters didn’t have much time together.
HOGAN: No, but we’ve never really had much time together.
SACKHOFF: I was disappointed that they didn’t dive deeper into the friendship that they developed down on New Caprica.
HOGAN: Yeah, exactly. It was interesting that I grew to have an immense amount of respect for Starbuck over that time. She was definitely a thorn in my shoe, but I had to respect her. Because if there’s anybody I want beside me when we get into the thick of things, it’s Starbuck. She’s my first choice, for anything — not that we would get along.
SACKHOFF: [Pause] When you said that, I felt flattered. I was like, ”Oh, that’s so sweet.” And then I was like, ”Wait a minute, he’s talking about Starbuck.” [Laughing]
HOGAN: Oh, I was talking about Sackhoff too.
SACKHOFF: Oh yeah, uh-huh. [Laughing]
HOGAN: Because you never know what the hell she’s going to do! Some of the rest of [the actors] are predictable, but oh my God, no acting required when you’re with Sackhoff, right?
SACKHOFF: Right, exactly. Because everyone knows I wake up and I am Starbuck, right?
HOGAN: Exactly.

And

Katee, at the end of last season, we’re definitely left with impression that Starbuck could very well be the final unknown Cylon. Any resolution to that question?
SACKHOFF: No. I think there’s better choices out there for the final Cylon, to be honest. Even if she was, I don’t think she’d ever believe it. I just don’t think that she would ever wrap her brain around that. It will be very interesting to find out.

It does appear that she’s the Keanu Reeves of the Battlestar universe, the savior. Does that role sit well with you as an actor?
SACKHOFF: I don’t know. I think Starbuck’s used to carrying around a heavy load, and she can handle a lot of responsibilities. She may do it with a chip on her shoulder and she may not do it the most reasonable way, but she always seems to get things done.
HOGAN: There is no escape from this. There’s only 30-something-thousand of us left. In any other walk of life, you’d kind of go somewhere else, but none of us have anywhere else to go. So that tempers your acceptance of things. We haven’t hugged anybody in a long time. We’re just in a battleship.
SACKHOFF: I’m going to tell [the producers] that I’m hugging you in the next episode. [Laughing] I’m just going to walk up to you in the [command center] and give you a big frakkin’ hug!
HOGAN: And I’ll say, ”Gee, I needed that!”

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