Battlestar Galactica Cast Interviews
By: Jenna Bensoussan
Date: November 24, 2007
Source: ACED Magazine
Note: This is a snippet of an interview with some of the cast of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA. I have only included the parts of the interview with AARON DOUGLAS below. To read the full interview, click HERE.
Now that this series is coming to an end, some of the actors tend to look at things a little differently when they come in to work.
“There was life before BSG and there will be life after BSG, so things will go back to normal,” says Hogan.
“I’d like to be the next guest host on the VIEW (after BSG),” laughs actor Aaron Douglas, who plays another human-to-Cylon newbie, Gaelin Tyrol.
Douglas goes on to talk about his off-screen involvement with the fans of the show. “I love going to conventions. This year alone I’ve gone to Italy, Australia, New Zealand, London, Miami, New York, LA., San Francisco..I love going to conventions. I absolutely love the fans. I genuinely…it’s a cliche…but I genuinely mean it when I say that the sci-fi fans are the best fans in the world. They are so much fun.
“The fans really embrace us and we in turn really embrace the fans. Every convention is a wonderful experience. The cool thing is meeting the other actors from the other shows…and there are doctors and lawyers, and the guy from Starbucks…the complete spectrum of society. These people come from all over the world and they are as passionate about it as we are, and I think it’s wonderful. I am very fortunate that I get to go and talk about it and give spoilers…” Douglas muses.
Because the series’ story will soon come to its close in 2008, the actors reminisce about some of their favorite moments, scenes and episodes experienced thus far.
Douglas pipes up, “‘Dirty Hands’, Season Three—I spent the whole day working with Mary (Mary McDonnell). I had never gotten the chance to work with Mary without a whole bunch of other people around and the last scene of that episode is her and I seated in a dark room across from each other just talking about the union stuff.
“We shot that thing for about four or five hours and I have never worked with someone more engaged, engaging, looking through your eyes, deep into your soul, more prepared, more caring, loving…I just felt like I was in a mother’s embrace all day long…it was the most spectacular moment in my acting career. She is an absolute angel on earth and I will take that memory from the show for the rest of my life,” he sighs.