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Wednesday, August 29, 2007
Michael Shanks Visits Eureka and Returns to the Stargate
by Ileane Rudolph
For those who missed Michael Shanks battling a ginormous man-eating serpent last weekend in MegaSnake, Sci Fi's latest cheese-filled movie, not to worry. The actor who played Stargate SG-1's hunky brainiac Daniel Carter for a decade is now paying a visit to the genius town Eureka on Sept. 25 (Tuesdays at 9 pm/ET, Sci Fi). TVGuide.com caught the Canadian actor at the tail end of his vacation "playing dad” to his three kids, and invited him to share with us tidbits about that gig, the upcoming SG-1 DVD movies, and more.
TVGuide.com: Both you and your wife, SG-1 colleague Lexa Doig, have Eureka gigs. Hers is the week before. How did that come about?
Michael Shanks: She auditioned first. She knew the director from Andromeda — Michael Robison — so it was a bit of a shoo-in for her. She came back from a couple days' work and was raving about the experience and the cast. Then we flew off to Toronto for a vacation and while I was there, they offered me a role for the following episode. It just worked out bang-bang, in that kind of way.
**snippage**
TVGuide.com: Share some tidbits about both upcoming SG-1 movies.
Shanks: We had a way bigger budget than we ever did for the series, so the action scenes will be that much better. And the fans will definitely be happy with the way we wrap up the series in The Ark of Truth. It reintroduces our villains that we created during the last two years, and we deal with them in a very climactic way. It's a good payoff.
**snippage**
TVGuide.com: What's happening with the Rage of Angels pilot you and Judge were developing?
Shanks: We have a verbal greenlight from MGM, but we're waiting for Brad Turner, who worked with us for years on SG-1, and who's now a supervising producer on 24, to have a window of opportunity to direct. That may not be until next year.
TVGuide.com: So which angels do you play?
Shanks: He's Gabriel, the archangel, and I will be playing Lucifer.
TVGuide.com: Lucifer. That's juicy. How do you prep for that evildoer?
Shanks: You know, that's the $10,000 question. I think Lucifer is just a guy with daddy issues.
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