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As "Battlestar Galactica" executive producer Ron Moore said in this July interview, Sci Fi said the film will air after "Battlestar" ends its run in 2009. Other details that had leaked out about the movie -- that "Battlestar Galactica" co-executive producer Jane Espenson would write it and Edward James Olmos would direct it -- were also confirmed in the Thursday press release.
Sci Fi confirmed the participation of cast members Michael Trucco, who plays Sam Anders, Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol) and Dean Stockwell (the Cylon Brother Cavil).
Moore told me Olmos will appear in the film as well. The fan site Galactica Sitrep reported in July that Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck), Grace Park (Athena/Boomer) and Michael Hogan (Tigh) were also being pursued for the film, which begins production soon in Vancouver. Pictured at left are (clockwise from left) Douglas, Trucco, Hogan and Rehka Sharma. All play characters who discovered they were Cylons in the Season 3 finale of the show.
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July 28, 2008 (Sawf News) - Katee Sackhoff turned heads wearing a black cutaway dress at the 2008 Comic Con International Sci-Fi/Entertainment Weekly Party at Hotel Solamar in San Diego, CA on July 26, 2008.
She was one of the attendees on the panel for Battlestar Galactica that included Jamie Bamber, Michael Trucco, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, creator Ron Moore and producer David Eick.
Katee Sackhoff, 28, who plays Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on the Sci Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica, has been practicing Yoga since before it became trendy. She learnt it as part of the physiotherapy she underwent after she injured both her knees as a teenager.
She practices Bikram yoga which consists of 26 postures and two breathing exercises that are performed at sauna-room temperatures.
She believes the breathing techniques to go with the intense heat help her during her 10-mile run every Sunday, as also to perform her stunts for the TV show.
Yoga also helps her mentally.
"It forces you to center yourself and be present," she says. "I think that anything that helps people be more present in Hollywood is probably a good thing."
Sackhoff has three tattoos. The one on her right forearm, often seen on the show, reads "bona fiscalia," meaning "good qualities" (blessings) in legal Latin. One, on the back of her neck, is a Chinese symbol ('choice'). Another, a cross, is covered with bandages whenever her shoulder is uncovered during shooting because there is no Christianity in the Battlestar Galactica universe.
"She was very gracious to all her fans, energetically signing autographs, answering questions, and posing for photos," reports Pop reader terrastrana. "Once I got to the front of the line, I was a bit nervous, so I couldn't think of any interesting questions to ask her -- I think I muttered something about how I admire her acting ability on the show. Anyway, it was a fun, surreal experience to finally meet one of the actors from Battlestar Galactica!"
Katee Sackhoff has revealed her desire to distance herself from Battlestar Galactica once the show finishes filming in July.
"I'm ready to move on from Starbuck," Sackhoff told the Philadelphia Inquirer, "and that means all the things that go along with her... after July she is dead - so to speak."
The actress, who recently appeared in the doomed Bionic Woman revival, added that she has a strong desire to "break the sci-fi mould", which involves severing links with the fanbase and no longer appearing at conventions.
Sackhoff has recently secured a recurring role in the next season of plastic surgery drama Nip/Tuck.
Katee Sackhoff is no sentimentalist - the 28-year-old actress knows the end is at hand for Kara "Starbuck" Thrace.
"After July, she is dead - so to speak," Sackhoff says of her iconoclastic character on Sci-Fi Channel's celebrated show Battlestar Galactica, which is halfway through its fourth and final season.
As sci-fi fans begin the process of mourning the demise of BSG, Sackhoff will bid adieu to her fans with an appearance at the Convention Center from noon to 4 p.m. tomorrow as part of the three-day sci-fi confab, Wizard World Philadelphia.
"I'm ready to move on from Starbuck," Sackhoff says. "And that means all the things that go along with her" - including sci-fi conventions.
Don't misunderstand her; the Portland, Ore., native loved BSG. But she's ready to "break the sci-fi mold," she says by phone from the set of her new show, FX's medical melodrama Nip/Tuck.
Sackhoff will have a recurring guest-star role this fall in four Nip/Tuck episodes.
"I play the new anesthesiologist," Theodora "Teddy" Lowe. "She's very interesting - she drives a Harley . . . and she really challenges" Dr. Sean McNamara (Dylan Walsh), one of the show's two male leads.
The cast of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica spin-off prequel, keeps getting better and better. We previously announced that Paula Malcomson (Deadwood) and Esai Morales (Jericho) had joined the cast, and now Polly Walker (Cane, Rome) and veteran film actor Eric Stoltz have also signed on. Walker will play Sister Clarice Willow, a duplicitous headmistress of a private religious school, while Stoltz will play computer engineer Daniel Graystone, the husband of Malcomson's character and the man who helps create the first Cylon.
Before Caprica launches as a TV-movie in 2009, Battlestar Galactica will wrap up its fourth and final season. Now that shooting on the final episodes of BSG is nearly completed, TV Guide has announced that Katee Sackhoff will be scrubbing in on Nip/Tuck for at least four episodes.
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Anyone who watches Nip/Tuck knows that the female characters on the series tend to be a bit mentally unstable. This should be perfect for Sackhoff, who is used to playing a complicated, slightly unhinged woman on BSG. Her character on the FX drama, Theodora "Teddy" Lowe, will be a new doctor who challenges Sean (Dylan Walsh) at McNamara/Troy during the show's sixth season. I have a feeling that "challenging" him may include sleeping with him and/or going crazy and stalking him, as many of Sean's female companions have been known to do.
If the gloriously over-the-top world of Nip/Tuck doesn't interest you, you'll still be able to get plenty of sci-fi drama on Caprica. The TV-movie will peek into the history of the BSG universe and show how the first humanoid Cylon was created. If the movie is a success, the Sci Fi Channel will likely pick up Caprica as an ongoing series.
Whether or not you think Caprica sounds like a good idea, you have to admit that BSG mastermind Ronald D. Moore knows how to cast a series. This TV-movie is sounding more prestigious with every new casting announcement. Though I hate to see Battlestar Galactica come to an end, at least we'll have Caprica to look forward to.
The "Battlestar Galactica" star, who plays Starbuck on the Sci Fi network series, has signed on to a recurring role on FX's "Nip/Tuck."
She'll appear in four episodes of its forthcoming season, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Soap-opera vet Morgan Fairchild also will make a guest appearance.
Sackhoff will play Dr. Theodora "Teddy" Lowe, who offers a challenge to Sean (Dylan Walsh).
"Battlestar Galactica" is in the midst of its fourth and final season on Sci Fi.
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