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Starbuck may be bionic but there is no way she's a frackin' toaster
While starring as Captain Kara "Starbuck" Thrace on Ronald Moore's re-imagining of Battlestar Galactica the last three seasons, Sackhoff joins the cast of what NBC hopes is this years Heroes - Bionic Woman - as Jaime Sommers' arch nemesis Sarah Corvus.
But just wait. Rumours are rampant and forums are all a fury with the notion that Starbuck will be revealed as the last of the Final Five Cylons in the upcoming, fourth and final season of the award-winning Sci Fi Channel series.
Sackhoff says there's no way Moore and co-creator David Eick (who also serves as executive producer on Bionic Woman) would do that to the Colonial Fleet's Top Gun, especially when you consider Starbuck was not only killed off in the episode "Maelstrom", but pulled a Lazarus in the Season 3 finale.
"No way would they let that happen", says Sackhoff. "I mean, come on, they already killed her, they're not that cruel. A person can only handle so much". Like playing strong female leads on two of the top Geek-friendly shows on TV today.
The 27-year old Portland, Oregon native said counting the pilot, she will appear in seven or eight episodes of Bionic Woman this season. And if the show returns in 2008-09, she is under contract to join the cast as a series regular. Geographically, both shows film in Vancouver, Canada. That's the easy part. The hard part, according to Sackhoff, is the fact that while she now embodies, in both spirit and mind, the cocky pilot from BSG, her role as the rogue killing machine on Bionic Woman is a bit more of a stretch.
"What's funny is when I got Starbuck, the character was nothing like me. And still, there are aspects of her that are nothing like me. I like to get down and dirty like nobody else. I love to be in the mud. And go dirt biking and just get stupid and dirty, but I like wearing stiletto heals and dresses like nobody's business. I like wearing makeup and I get upset when I break a nail so that's a part of me, as well. But playing Starbuck for five years, there is a confidence and a way that I carry myself that I didn't have before, at all. And part of that could just be attributed to growing up. I got the role when I was 22 and I am 27 now and it's who I am. And so is Starbuck. I definitely have a lot more confidence and I speak my mind more. I didn't do that before, at all. I used to let people walk all over me and now I don't", explains Sakhoff.
"It's a lot harder to play Sarah Corvus than it is to play Starbuck", she continues. "At this point, I don't even memorize my dialogue for Starbuck. I just show up for work and I know what she is going to say. It takes me two seconds to memorize two pages. And as a character, Starbuck wears her emotions on her sleeve. You can always tell what she is thinking. Sarah Corvus is a character that doesn't want to let you know what she is thinking and if you have seen emotion, it is a different one than she is actually thinking because she is just trying to screw you up. It's hard to play that subtlety of a woman who would give anything to have her humanity back but is also someone who is cutting away her humanity because she views it as a weakness. It's two completely different sides of the coin in one person and it's really very difficult to play".
Sackhoff did manage to come up with one challenge she faces serving as one of Caprica's finest: "The flight suit sucks", cries Sackhoff. Not to say she doesn't fantasize about her daily maverick makeovers. "I can say that on my last day of shooting, I am putting that flight suit on with my gun belt and my helmet and driving home. I'm taking it with me. I would love to get pulled over. However, with those fake guns I might get shot so I might take those off and put them in a bag. For as much pain as that suit has caused for me for five years, I am bronzing that goddamn thing and putting it in my bedroom back home in Oregon. It's staying at my parents' house".
Sorry Smithsonian, better call Apollo.
Speaking of the good major, Sackhoff says their rivalry from BSG continues off-air, as well. But in some aspects, she admits, it's all her fault. "I honestly wish that I would just try flying. Playing Starbuck, the connections I have now in the aviation industry are really, really strong. But I don't really have a desire to fly a plane by myself because I drive a car like a crazy person so the last thing I need is to fly a plane like a crazy person. I am also scared of heights and flying. For me, playing a pilot is very ironic. I do, however, love being in small planes. I would love to go. Jaime Bamber (who plays Major Lee "Apollo" Adama) got to go up with the Blue Angels and I am so jelous, I just want to kill him".
