By Chris Snellgrove
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Katee Sackhoff is best known for the Battlestar Galactica Restart series in which she played an Ace Viper driver. The show has always stressed that her character was more comfortable in a cockpit than everywhere else because she was a gifted pilot whose personal and professional life was always in perpetual chaos. The fact that the character of Katee Sackhoff was so at home as a pilot is morbid, however, because the actor herself hated his viper scenes.
Katee Sackhoff and her viper
Looking back on her most famous scenes, Katee Sackhoff said very raw: “I am despised [the Viper cockpit scenes]. “One of the reasons for which she hated these scenes is because” it is very uncomfortable in this tight space “. It makes a lot of sense. Acting already to play in relatively small sets, and having to film a lot in a small Cockpit makes it difficult to work all the more difficult.
Apparently to evacuate her frustrations, Katee Sackhoff continued her diatribe passionate about viper scenes: “Suddenly, you are a claustrophobic, you are hot and sweaty, and then you are cold, you have to pee, you have Need water, but you can’t drink it because you will have to pee. These are very understandable concerns, and we now have much more respect for what the actor has endured to bring us his coolest scenes from the show.
Katee Sackhoff had focused on the purely mechanical concerns of filming the scenes of the cockpit, but she finally turned her attention to something the most Battlestar Galactica Fans love: the uniform of the Viper pilot. According to the actor, “you have these rubber space combinations and you are stuck at the seat … Gross!” Admittedly, it is something that most cosplayers who try to recreate this emblematic uniform does not think before preparing to go to Comic-Con.
It turns out that Katee Sackhoff also hated her viper scenes due to temperature problems in the cockpit. “Then there is wind in your face and you fall asleep because it is so hot,” she said. On the basis of this description, these scenes were the worst of the two worlds, the actors having faced the heat inducing sleep or the distracting wind, which both interfere with the actor’s ability to do their job.
Speaking of the actor’s work, Katee Sackhoff spoke of the fact that his viper scenes, combined with the technical terms used by writers, often made it difficult to prepare scenes. “You are trying to memorize all these pages of dialogue – 50 – All this Jumbo Mumbo Technique,” she said. There is a little irony here because the showrunner Ronald Moore started writing for Star Trek: The next generationA spectacle where the actors complained about the “technobabble” dialogue they had to say in order to make these intrigues in the 19th century plausible.
Ending his rant, Katee Sackhoff described her recurring thinking while turning these viper scenes: “Break my knee, please.” This refers to what her character is injured after having crushed his ship in the episode “You can’t retow again at home”, and she is on crutches for the rest of the season, something Sackhoff has Declared as “the best thing that has happened to me in season 1.” She only steals the second season, and although it disappointed many fans, it seems that the actor sucks on days when his character n ‘did not have to fly the not so friendly sky.
When we heard for the first time that Katee Sackhoff hated filming her viper scenes, it was a disappointment. After all, Starbuck was our favorite Battlestar Galactica The character and its pilot bustodies were particularly memorable. Hearing her rant on filming conditions, we cannot help but sympathize with everything she has lived to give life to our favorite scenes. And all this is just a more proof (not that we need it) that Sackhoff is just as much a hard and tenacious woman as her most famous character.
