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Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Galactica (SCI FI Channel)
Exclusive Interview by Daniel Robert Epstein, contributing editor
Tricia Helfer first caught the attention (and then some) of genre fans in the 2003 Battlestar Galactica miniseries as Number 6, the villainess who was the first in the wave of Cylons destroying humanity. Now she is back as multiple versions of her character in the new Battlestar Galactica series, which airs every Friday night at 9PM on SCI FI Channel.
UGO: How much will we be seeing you on the new Battlestar Galactica?
TRICIA HELFER: My character is in every episode, although with a large cast there will be some episodes that I am hardly in. I think in the fourth episode I have one scene and hardly any dialogue. Then some episodes I am practically in every scene.
UGO: Are you as evil as you were in the miniseries?
TRICIA: I am, if not even more so.
UGO: How could you get more evil than killing a baby?
TRICIA: Well, I think of that baby killing as a mercy killing. I discussed it with the director, Michael Rymer. We didn't want her to be a cold killing machine. We tried to give her a few vulnerabilities to make it different from the stereotypical hot robot chick. In essence I think that makes her scarier because at times it makes you feel for her and other times she does something completely off the deep end. I think that's more threatening. One of my first acting teachers told me when you play someone that's evil, you can't look at it that way, so I don't view her as evil. You have to look at it from the perspective you are playing.
Boomer: Just keep it up, old buddy, you're going to get us into real trouble.
Starbuck: Ten thousand light years from nowhere, our planet shot to pieces, people starving, and *I'm* gonna get us in trouble?
Tricia Helfer of Battlestar Galactica (SCI FI Channel)
Exclusive Interview by Daniel Robert Epstein, contributing editor
Tricia Helfer first caught the attention (and then some) of genre fans in the 2003 Battlestar Galactica miniseries as Number 6, the villainess who was the first in the wave of Cylons destroying humanity. Now she is back as multiple versions of her character in the new Battlestar Galactica series, which airs every Friday night at 9PM on SCI FI Channel.
UGO: How much will we be seeing you on the new Battlestar Galactica?
TRICIA HELFER: My character is in every episode, although with a large cast there will be some episodes that I am hardly in. I think in the fourth episode I have one scene and hardly any dialogue. Then some episodes I am practically in every scene.
UGO: Are you as evil as you were in the miniseries?
TRICIA: I am, if not even more so.
UGO: How could you get more evil than killing a baby?
TRICIA: Well, I think of that baby killing as a mercy killing. I discussed it with the director, Michael Rymer. We didn't want her to be a cold killing machine. We tried to give her a few vulnerabilities to make it different from the stereotypical hot robot chick. In essence I think that makes her scarier because at times it makes you feel for her and other times she does something completely off the deep end. I think that's more threatening. One of my first acting teachers told me when you play someone that's evil, you can't look at it that way, so I don't view her as evil. You have to look at it from the perspective you are playing.
Boomer: Just keep it up, old buddy, you're going to get us into real trouble.
Starbuck: Ten thousand light years from nowhere, our planet shot to pieces, people starving, and *I'm* gonna get us in trouble?
