SCI FI Wire caught up with Katee Sackhoff, a perennial favourite from her days at Battlestar Galactica (and a new favourite of yours truly’s after falling in love with her character Kara “Starbuck” Thrace during my recent BSG Virgin Viewing Experience), to chat about her new role as top analyst Dana Walsh in the newly resurrected Counter Terrorist Unit of Season 8. The article also includes a few pictures from the new CTU set (looking cool).  Highlights:

On Dana’s relationship with Chloe:

“Dana is permanently happy [...] I think that also pisses Chloe off, because Dana’s like, ‘Oh, no, it’s totally fine that you don’t get it. Let me help you. It’s great. I’ll do that. It’s fine. You don’t need to figure it out, because I’m good enough to do both our jobs.’ So that really pisses Chloe off.”

On continuity in the real-time concept:

“It’s one of those things where the continuity as far as your wardrobe doesn’t change, so it’s like, ‘Something’s [off]… my watch isn’t here.’ Because you’re so used to wearing it that it becomes kind of like the gunbelt from Battlestar. It would seem very odd to not have it on. You have to remind yourself what room you were in last, not what happened last episode, because it all is taking you to the exact same place at the end of the day, kind of. So I found that easier.”

On former co-star Edward James Olmos “zooming in on the cock” while filming The Plan:

“There’s a scene in the Head where everyone’s just naked, and Eddie on the day is going, ‘Zoom in on the c–k. Zoom in on the c–k,’” Sackhoff recalled. “The camera guy’s like, ‘I can’t zoom in the c–k. He keeps covering up the c–k.’ They’re like, ‘Zoom in the c–k. Get him to do something else with his hands. Make him shave.’ So then he’s shaving, and he’s like, ‘Now, zoom in on the c–k.’ That’s on the daily. That is so Eddie. It’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever heard. ‘Zoom in on the c–k’ in Eddie’s voice. I think I told that story my first day here, and the crew was like, ‘We like you.’”