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"Stargate is a fun, smart show..."
"There's a lot of potential in Woolsey, and I hope the fans will check it out."
PYSCH TEST
By PAT JANKIEWICZ
Sitting in a Pasadena coffee shop, Robert Picardo runs through a gamut of emotions as he talks on his cell phone: happy, concerned, laughing. Is he doing a scene?
“No,” he replies, “just arranging to pick up my daughter after school!”
A longtime STARLOG favorite, the versatile character actor with the expressive eyebrows and rubbery face is immediately recognizable from numerous roles: Eddie Quist in THE HOWLING, Coach Cutlip of THE WONDER YEARS, Dr. Richard on CHINA BEACH, the holographic Doctor on board STAR TREK: VOYAGER and Richard Woolsey, STARGATE SG-1’s panicky government bureaucrat.
“I’ve been acting professionally for 32 years,” he says. “I got my first job in 1976, an Off-Broadway play with Diane Keaton. That was a kick, to work with a talented pro my first time out. But, yeah, people seem to really love me in science fiction.”
That love continues today, with his work on SG-1 and its spin-off, STARGATE ATLANTIS.
“Richard Woolsey is a government administrator—a think tank type of personality,” Picardo begins. “I like to think of him as a neoconservative who plans the best way to do something, but then when you put him in the field, in the actual situation of real danger, he immediately falls apart!
He’s the guy who’s good at intimidating other people in the conference room, but in the real world, he just doesn’t have it. Richard is my tribute to people who plan military conflicts, but have never been in one.”
**snippage**
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