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Stargate Magazine Exclusive!
April 25, 2008 (Products)
Read an exclusive extract from this month's issue of Stargate Magazine! In this issue, actor Chris Heyerdahl talks about his transformation on Atlantis.
A brief excerpt:
Chris Heyerdahl is like the Jekyll and Hyde of Stargate: Atlantis. The Vancouver native kicked off season one as the benevolent Athosian Halling, but later shifted gears by transforming into the conniving and deadly Wraith known as Todd. However, long before Heyerdahl even stepped into the Pegasus Galaxy, he encountered the Stargate SG-1 team as the misguided Pallan in the episode "Revisions."
“It was interesting because I was never sure whether Pallan was actually a family man or married with no children,” recalls Heyerdahl about his character’s plight. “It starts off with them having dinner together, Pallan and his wife, and the next thing you know, he no longer has a wife. Did he have children once upon a time? Who knows what his history was. Did his father, brothers, mother, and sisters go before his wife? How long had this been going on? How much influence did he knowingly or unknowingly have in the deaths of so many people? He was ultimately responsible for keeping this machine working. He was the ignorant technician of evil, even though he was perhaps one of the most kind, gentle, and generous people you would want to meet. There was the transition of going from his own ignorance to his enlightenment, realizing he had been helping this machine help everyone survive but at the same time, killing so many people that he loved. To carry that burden is a heavy one. On the surface, he was a technician with a very intelligent scientific mind, but eventually he was indirectly responsible for the lives of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people. It was an interesting angle there – he was so much more than he thought he was, and so much more than he appeared. That was a big challenge on a human level.”
**snippage**
Read the full interview in The Official Stargate SG1/Atlantis Magazine #22 on sale now.
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Chris Heyerdahl as Todd the Wraith
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