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Helo speaks: Chatting with 'Battlestar Galactica's' Tahmoh Penikett
By Rick Porter
January 15 '09
Tahmoh Penikett plays the stoic Helo on Battlestar Galactica, and as such he's not going to give away many specifics about the show's final episodes. (Nor, frankly, would I deign to ask, because he's a big guy.)
Penikett, however, was more than willing to discuss more general things about the final Battlestar arc, which starts Friday on Sci Fi. The actor, who also stars in FOX's upcoming Dollhouse (we'll have more on that as the show gets closer to air), says more than once that the story will "blow people away."
We discussed his thoughts on the show coming to an end, where Helo's head is now that the fleet has found Earth and one not very big spoiler. Here's what he had to say:
A brief excerpt:
Helo has always been the good soldier. How's he dealing with getting to Earth and finding it so devastated?
I think it's probably as hard on him as on a lot of people, but the thing about Helo -- so much was riding on this ... this was the last hope. Everything was about this, it was about discovering Earth. To come and discover it's been nuked, and whatever is left is ... pretty much uninhabitable and it's not what they were hoping, it would break a lot of people -- and it does. You discover that it will break more than a few people.
But ultimately, he's a father. He's a father and a husband, and that's his mission. He has to mourn like everyone else, but really what it comes down to is he's got a daughter to take care of and a wife to take care of. They're still alive and there's still hope, as little as it is.
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