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That blur in Vancouver? It's Katee Sackhoff, bouncing between Battlestar and Bionic Woman.
The blond dynamo who gained fame as fighter jock Starbuck on SciFi Channe's original series Battlestar Galactica returns for fourth and final season, which is currently is production in the the Canadian city. But she's also a new regular cast member on NBC's upcoming SF series Bionic Woman. an update and re-imaging of the popular 1970s series. The thing is, Bionic Woman is also gearing up production. On the same lot. At the same time.
"Yes, I will be one tired cookie for a year," Sackhoff says with a laugh during a rare break in filming, while sipping a Diet Coke. The two series will overlap for the entire season of both, she adds. (Battlestar returns to the air in November, with a two-hour event entitled "Razor". The show's additional 20 episodes return in early 2008. Bionic Woman premieres on NBS in the fall and will air Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT.)
"Battlestar has me, and Bionic gets me when I'm available," Sackhoff says. "And because they shoot on the same lot, and they are both shot in Vancouver, it's been made increasingly [easier] than it would be... if it was shot in Los Angeles. ...it probably wouldn't have happened. It just all seemed to work out perfectly. ...So basically, it's going to be running back and foth. I mean, I've done it before. I did White Noise 2 and Battlestar at the same time a year ago, and I did a Lifetime movie and [the] Bionic Woman [pilot] at the same time this year. So it is doable. ... I'm lucky I'm in my 20s. That's what everybody keeps saying: ...'You're lucky you're young.'"
Some days, Sackhoff may wish she had her Bionic Woman character's superpowers to manage the grueling schedule. "She's got two bionic arms," she says. "Two bionic legs. Two bionic eyes. Her ears are bionic. And a part of her chest is bionic. So she is .. slowly cutting away all the pieces of her that are weak."
Sackhoff co-stars with British actress Michelle Ryan, who plays Jaime Sommers, a young girl who is severly injured in a car accident and has her legs, arm, eye and ear replaced with "bionics," or souped-up military prostherics that give her superhuman strenght and sense: better, stronger, faster. (Lindsay Wagner famously played a version of the character in the original 1970s The Bionic Woman.) Sackhoff, for a change, gets to play the bad guy. Or one of them.
"My character's Sarah Corvis, and she's the first bionic woman," Sackhoff says. "She's ex-military. And she volunteered for the bionic program. And this is all speculation and kind of hearsay at this point, but the idea that I've gotten so far is that she volunteered for this and didn't really know what she was volunteering for, and it kind of turned her a little crazy. And then she didn't like being controlled, so she escaped. Now she works with the rogue bionics at this point. ... There's definitely more bionics. ... There's definitely more than just myself and Jaime."
The role marks a nice change for Sackhoff, who has become familiar to fans as the scrappy, tattooed, bobbed tomboy Starbuck. By contrast, Corvis is something of a femme fatale: In the pilot, she wears a lot of black and a lot of eyeliner and (gasp!) even has steamy sex. Sort of more Number Six, like her Battlestar co-star Tricia Helfer, she says.
"The difference are that Number Six is trying to be human," Sackhoff says. "And Sarah Corvis is trying to cut away all the parts of her that are human, because she sees them as weakness and vulnerabilities that can be taken advantage of. So she doesn't want to be human anymore. But there's a side to her that is desperately wishes she could go back."
As for the sexy clothes? "we'll see how it all works out in the series, but yeah, in the pilot, it was kind of nice, actually, to wear heels," she says. "I don't
envy Tricia at all. My feet hurt really bad [laughs]."
