Friday, January 16, 2009

Battlestar Galactica - TV Guide Online: Jamie Bamber Interview

At TV Guide Online:

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Jamie Bamber Promises Answers on Battlestar Galactica

Jan 16, 2009 - by Erin Fox

Jamie Bamber's run as the handsome fighter pilot, and now vice president, on Battlestar Galactica (Friday, 10 pm/ET, Sci Fi) will be coming to an end in a few months as the show draws to a conclusion. TVGuide.com spoke to the sexy Brit, now back in the UK filming Law & Order: London, about the questions that will be answered throughout the last season of BSG, how he reacted to the final script and why he stole his flight suit from set.

A brief excerpt:

... TVGuide.com: Was the end of the show satisfying to you, and was it emotional?
Bamber: Yeah, it really was. The way that scripts are delivered, people read them at different times, and I think I was one of the last people to read [the finale] — just because I was working all day. Other cast members had had time to read it, and I looked up at Aaron Douglas wandering around with his iPod in his ears and tears in his eyes holding the script. Different people were falling down [crying] as it were and you think, "What's up with everyone? Oh they're reading the final thing." So, I sat down and read it and the same thing happened to me, you know, you tear up. It was an extraordinary piece of work on the page. ... And, [it] was so character driven. It was like a piece of music, with repetitive themes and suddenly the whole five seasons of these individual's journeys was kind of all present on the same time onscreen. You felt the entirety of their experience. And that's really the climax of the show; it was about who the final Cylon is ... and we've already found Earth. All those things happen and then you're left with actually what the story's really been about. Which is: what is it to be human in a big old universe which is empty and cold and scary? What life is about and what consciousness is about? They're left at the end with these big questions on their mind. And, wondering what they should do with themselves having reached a place of finality. It was really profound.

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