Jul
11
2010
Alaina Huffman has suggested that her Stargate Universe character TJ is becoming more mature.
Speaking to SFX, Huffman explained that TJ is starting to be more comfortable with her role on board Destiny.
“I think TJ is, particularly towards the end of the first season and actually into the second season, she’s really maturing into her role,” Huffman said.
“And I think like a lot of women and men her age and in the circumstance that they’re in, not quite as dire the circumstances that they’re in on the ship, but in life you go through this sort of quarter-life crisis where you’re figuring out what your purpose is and what your strengths are.”
She added: “I think TJ’s sort of come to terms with her role in the ship and her role in life and she’s maturing into her role.”
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Jul
11
2010
Stargate Universe actor Lou Diamond Phillips has revealed that he is pleased to be able to work in both films and television.
Phillips has previously appeared in a number of high-profile movies, including the 1988 Western Young Guns opposite Kiefer Sutherland and Charlie Sheen.
He told SFX: “A lot of the guys that I started with, whether it’s Kiefer or Charlie Sheen… have made the transition to television, and they’re doing quite well.
“Some of my favourite work over the last few years, whether it was in the first season of 24 or on Numbers or on Stargate Universe… has been very satisfying to me because the writing has got so much better in television. A number of actors these days have the ability to go back and forth, so I feel fortunate about that.”
Phillips’s Stargate Universe co-star Robert Carlyle also recently revealed that he enjoys working in television and does not see it as a “step back”.
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Jul
11
2010
Scottish actor ROBERT CARLYLE has defended his decision to take on a new TV project, insisting the move isn’t a “journey back” from his starring roles in movies.
The actor made his name on the small screen before catapulting to fame after appearing in hit films including Trainspotting and The Full Monty.
He’s currently starring in U.S. sci-fi series Stargate Universe – and admits he loves being a part of a TV cast.
Carlyle tells The Sun, “I started off doing TV, so it didn’t ever seem to me to be like a journey back in any way.
“I had continued to do bits of TV through the years – some stuff that I’d really enjoyed. I particularly enjoyed Hitler: The Rise of Evil with CBS and also Human Trafficking.
“Those two things were really the steps on the way to Stargate Universe.”
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Jul
11
2010
Brian J. Smith has revealed that his Stargate Universe character Matthew Scott will start to question his environment.
In an interview with SFX, Smith explained that Scott will become increasingly uncomfortable with the power held by Colonel Young (Justin Louis).
“The way my grandma would say, he’s got a good heart,” Smith said. “He’s really got a really good heart. But you kind of saw at the end of season one, he starts arguing. Not arguing, but questioning Colonel Young.”
Smith explained that Scott will feel obligated to address Colonel Young about his behaviour.
He said: “Not because he’s trying to be contrary, but merely because you’re seeing this man who’s got everyone’s lives in his hands and he’s doing some things, engaging in what looks like torture, and making some pretty unilateral decisions that affect everybody’s lives and put a lot of people in danger.
“And I think Scott, as much as he doesn’t want to, feels he has to confront him for that.”
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Jul
05
2010
Stargate Universe creator Brad Wright has revealed details of how the second season will progress.
The series follows an exploration team unable to return to Earth after an evacuation to the Ancient spaceship Destiny. Wright reportedly confirmed that there is more to the ship than meets the eye.
According to the Sci Fi Australia blog, the Destiny “has a destination of cosmic importance, so important that it overshadows the desire for the crew to get home, and that by fulfilling this new mission, it may in fact allow them to get home”.
The second season will also apparently include “a gigantic battle in space featuring an armada of alien spaceships, and possibly a planet-based battle”. The programme’s mid-season finale meanwhile is said to feature a “sea of wrecked ships”. Wright previously revealed that the next season will be “dark” in tone.
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