Sunday, May 04, 2008

Interviews

Forgive me for being a tad behind with keeping up on the frakkin’ scrillions of interviews floating around these days. Here is a major clippage dump…leisure reading/listening to keep you busy for a while.

Nicki “Cally” Clyne did her first post-you-know-what interview on the TV Talk with Shaun Omac radio show. You can listen to this detailed and fun interview (45 minutes long!) here starting at 11:20, or download the show from this page. One of my favorite parts of this is a hilarious story about some BSG fans who work for homeland security trying to use the face recognition software at their office, to figure out who the final five were based on this photo! ROFLMAO. Lots of fun. For the TL;DR crowd, Media Blvd Magazine has posted a written excerpt.

Shaun Omac did another meaty interview with Rekha “Tory” Sharma this past week. The direct stream link is here, or go to the home page for the downoad.

At the FedCon in Germany, German BSG fansite Caprica City interviewed Mary McDonnell and has given Galactica.TV the OK to run the English version.

Edward James Olmos spoke to The Boston Globe and it is slightly spoilerish, although vague.

At the NY Comic Con, IGN videotaped this interview with Rekha Sharma, and Access Hollywood interviewed all three of the actors who did that day’s BSG panel. FYI the entire panel video is now on SciFi.com and Hulu.

While attending the Pittsburgh Comic Con two weeks ago, Aaron Douglas did an interview with Comic Geekspeak, which The Chief’s Deck has been kind enough to extract (see here), and also did a bit of karaoke.

Scifi blogger Morjana noted that there is a Katee Sackhoff interview in a recent Hypaspace podcast. ETA: the latest podcast features a talk with Rekha Sharma (thanks pxl).

Aint It Cool News has a review of Bear McCreary’s recent LA concerts that includes an interview with Bear and concert host James Callis.

Total SciFi talked to Ron Moore, David Eick, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Tricia Helfer and Lucy Lawless.

Tahmoh Penikett spoke with Dose Canada about BSG, DOLLHOUSE, and his love of sci-fi. There’s a slightly different version published here as well. BTW E! Online has a spoilery tidbit at the bottom of this post about Tahmoh shooting some DOLLHOUSE scenes in Los Angeles recently.

Victoria News interviewed Alessandro Juliani.

Time Out Chicago discussed lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender issues in sci-fi and fantasy storytelling with BSG writer Jane Espenson.

Hugh Hart posted the audio interview he did with Tricia Helfer, that resulted in a written piece for Wired Magazine last month.

Katee Sackhoff talked to PopCandy in a recent podcast.

David Weddle was on Syfy Radio the week season 4 premiered. A great interview I highly recommend.

The TV Addict invited fans to submit questions for their Jamie Bamber interview - and now that inty is posted here. As usual, Bamber is great at giving detailed, meaty answers without spoilers. Also of note is the lockdown situation TPTB seem to be employing this season to prevent a repeat of any of the massive leakage of plot points that happened last year. My spirginal self hopes they can succeed - especially if the back ten are delayed till NEXT YEAR. Ugh. Nevertheless, another superb Bamber interview.

It also appears that he has joined our small fold of IN TREATMENT fans. If some of you still want to catch up with this great show (featuring Michelle “Admiral Cain” Forbes), and you don’t have HBO, the DVD release has just been announced for September.

7 comments:

Drache said...

I just finished listening to the interview with Nicky Clyne. Was anyone able to understand what she said her business was called?

Did anyone else see a mouse cursor move across the IGN video with Rekha Sharma, or was I seeing things?

Thanks for that flood of info. :P Too bad I don't have time to look at all of it.

morjana said...

Thank you so much for the link to my blog!

Also...thank you for the terrific links on your web site. Off to do some more reading.

Best wishes,

Morjana

radii said...

If it's true that the US Homeland Security people are using face-recognition software on that image of the Final Five then I hope non-union Canadian extras are in their database and they also prove that they're not particularly adept at using their brains. Even at that small size it is clear that extras are in the robes - 4 men, one woman - all caucasion, and the guy on the right has a beard. All are over 50, none has dark skin, none has the portly body of Aaron Douglas.

Drache said...

@radii That's what I was thinking too. I figured they were going to be extras before I even looked at the image. At that point, I thought even the writers didn't know who the final five were yet. Right?

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ProgGrrl said...

Thanks pxl...isn't it true that there have been BSG cast in almost every one of your podcasts this spring?

@radii: yeah that's what Nicki said.

@morjana: you are welcome.

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