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ABOUT SCIFI: Katee on Starbuck & Battlestar Galactica
Me: How much is it destiny that a gal from the Portland/Seattle area is playing a Starbuck? KS: You picked up on that. You're really classy. Me: Thank you. KS: Actually, I'm hoping get free coffee for the rest of my life.
(Personally, I could have talked coffee all day, but we needed to get down to business.)
Me: What makes up the core of Starbuck's character? KS: Before the Cylon attack, I don't think she knew herself too well. The military is all she really knows. Then there's the attack, and I know this sounds odd, but she thinks, "Oh, thank God, I finally have something to do." If they decommissioned the Battlestar, she wouldn't have anything left.
Me: A few days ago, Donald Rumsfeld spoke about sending reservists into Iraq and stressed that they would be happy to see some action. Do you see Starbuck that way, happy to be getting the call? KS: Well, it's a lot easier to say that when it's imaginary. If Eddie Olmos turned to me and told me to go to Iraq, I'd be on the first bus to Canada. But, yeah, maybe that's kind of how Starbuck feels.
Me: I don't want to spend our time harping on the differences between the original BG and yours, but I am somewhat concerned about Starbuck as a woman, since the "original" character was not just a man, but a Ladies Man with a big old phallic cigar and all that. What about now? Does Starbuck have something to replace the cigar? KS: She still has the cigar. God, I must have smoked about 30 of the things. I've talked with [scriptwriter] Ron [Moore] and others about what they thought, and she really needs to be a player. Me: She still plays cards? KS: Oh, yes. She's got to be in there.
Me: Starbuck has lots of interesting angles, though. One thing stressed in the original series is Starbuck's "orphan" status that separates him slightly - at least in his own mind - from the nobles and commanders he hangs out with. Were you able to use any of that in this version? KS: Yes. We don't know where Starbuck's parents are from. The military is her family. Everyone else is talking about their parents, and you see in her that she doesn't have anybody else.
Me: What about Apollo? KS: Apollo has been gone for two years, and there's a tension between because they are really good friends, but they haven't spoken. And - Me: Ack! No spoilers!
(Actually, my supposed desire to avoid spoilers didn't keep me from asking other questions, through which I learned that if the show makes it to series, there's talk of bringing back some more characters seen in the original episodes who didn't make it into the movie. Sackhoff also said something about how [Edward James] "Eddie" Olmos is pushing to have her dog put into the script to make up for the missing Muffit, and how she'd love to have a flying motorcycle (a la Galactica 1980).)
Me: A problem I have with some sci-fi out there that features strong female characters is that while the women are smart and good fighters, and all that, there's a decided lack of female-to-female friendships. KS: Well, Starbuck and Boomer are friends. There's a scene where I'm playing cards. Originally, it was written that it was going to be several background players and Colonel Tigh, but at this point in the shooting the camaraderie had become so strong that I felt Starbuck needed to have her friends there. That's part of what makes her human. She does have friends. And the producers agreed, so that's how the scene was shot.
Me: How about as an actress? Do you feel your ability to develop the character as a woman is stunted by not having other women characters to work with? KS: You know, when it comes to Starbuck, she is such a strong woman that if you put her around men it makes sense, if you put her around women she might be overpowering. When she's with men, she looks feminine; when she's with women, she looks like she's going to kill them. But with the friendship - and how great it is to work with Grace Park -- it makes her more feminine to be with Boomer. If the show goes to a series, I think that will be a constant struggle for me, because I'm very feminine, and it was kind of hard for me -- if I were Starbuck I'd be flirting with all of them. Starbuck doesn't flirt. Me: No? KS: Not yet, anyway.
Me: What is it about space that all the men out there are such lookers? KS: Really! You know, it's something I said on the set, that everybody gets action except Starbuck. Me: (somewhat appalled) Adama has sex? KS: Okay, two of us don't get any action. Me: Speaking of such things. In the original series, there were buckets of love and affection between Apollo and Starbuck, enough that even now we've got fanficers exploring that more sexual side. I love Ron Moore's work, particularly because he's the best writer for Picard and Q, one of my all-time favorite duos. Moore said that he envisions Q as being in love with Picard, and certainly the way he writes them together creates a lot of sparks. Do you think perhaps Moore saw some of that in Apollo and Starbuck and sort of resolved it by making Starbuck a woman?
