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Richard also said playing Apollo could be frustrating because it's hard to write good lines for such a clean-cut hero. Villains have it much easier when it comes to dialogue. He had many meetings with Glen Larson about this. (I agree. In the first half of [[Greetings From Earth]], Apollo's "Do The Right Thing" attitude starts to get overbearing. Starbuck was much more interesting as the reluctant hero.) | Richard also said playing Apollo could be frustrating because it's hard to write good lines for such a clean-cut hero. Villains have it much easier when it comes to dialogue. He had many meetings with Glen Larson about this. (I agree. In the first half of [[Greetings From Earth]], Apollo's "Do The Right Thing" attitude starts to get overbearing. Starbuck was much more interesting as the reluctant hero.) | ||
John Colicos was asked what he did on that pedestal when he wasn't busy, and he said, "I would read Marvel comics." He said that he had to climb a rickety ladder to get up there, and | John Colicos was asked what he did on that pedestal when he wasn't busy, and he said, "I would read Marvel comics." He said that he had to climb a rickety ladder to get up there, and on one occasion the crew went to lunch and left him stuck up there. It was lonely because neither Lucifer nor any of the other Cylons actually talked, so he was always talking to himself. It wasn't until a few months after the series ended that he got to meet Jonathan Harris, who provided the voice of Lucifer. Anne mentioned that she and John only had one scene together in the entire series (in [[Baltar's Escape]]). | ||
They said the last time all six of them had been together was back in 1979! Dirk told a story about [[The Young Lords]] where the Cylons had to walk down a stairway, and the Cylon in front fell down and then rest fell down like Cylon dominoes. Anne mentioned her scene in [[War of the Gods]] with [[Count Iblis]] (Patrick MacNee) on the Agro ship where he kisses her. She felt nervous beforehand because it was her first screen kiss and it was with this older man. During the shooting of the scene Iblis says, "You have nothing to fear as long as I am inside you." Anne kept bursting into laughter because of the obvious double entrendre meaning of that. Eventually, they got it right, but the censors excised the line from the final cut. When MacNee signed an autograph for her years later, take a guess what he wrote! Anne also mentioned that footage was shot of what Starbuck and Apollo saw inside the [[Iblis' ship|crashed ship]] - a demon with a cloven hoof - but it wasn't used because the demon "looked like a dead sheep." She remembered how they were supposed to be all horrified when they saw this thing, but it just didn't look scary at all. She also talked about how she and Laurette gave Richard and Dirk wedgies when they were in their triad uniforms at the end of [[Murder on the Rising Star]]. She said, "They looked so cute!" | They said the last time all six of them had been together was back in 1979! Dirk told a story about [[The Young Lords]] where the Cylons had to walk down a stairway, and the Cylon in front fell down and then rest fell down like Cylon dominoes. Anne mentioned her scene in [[War of the Gods]] with [[Count Iblis]] (Patrick MacNee) on the Agro ship where he kisses her. She felt nervous beforehand because it was her first screen kiss and it was with this older man. During the shooting of the scene Iblis says, "You have nothing to fear as long as I am inside you." Anne kept bursting into laughter because of the obvious double entrendre meaning of that. Eventually, they got it right, but the censors excised the line from the final cut. When MacNee signed an autograph for her years later, take a guess what he wrote! Anne also mentioned that footage was shot of what Starbuck and Apollo saw inside the [[Iblis' ship|crashed ship]] - a demon with a cloven hoof - but it wasn't used because the demon "looked like a dead sheep." She remembered how they were supposed to be all horrified when they saw this thing, but it just didn't look scary at all. She also talked about how she and Laurette gave Richard and Dirk wedgies when they were in their triad uniforms at the end of [[Murder on the Rising Star]]. She said, "They looked so cute!" | ||