Note: This is a snippet
of an interview with JAMIE BAMBER where he mentions AARON DOUGLAS.
To read the full interview, click
HERE.
At
the end of Season 3, we find out four of the final Cylons and they wind
up being cast members we’ve seen before. How did that affect everyone on
the set?
BAMBER: We tend to see scripts an episode or two episodes in advance, and
before that, occasionally the actors will get hold of a breakdown of a
story which we’re not really meant to see, but we do. That’s how the news
spread and I think that all four actors that were revealed as Cylons—certainly
Michael Hogan and Aaron
Douglas, who were the sort
of longstanding members of the cast—were absolutely shocked and angry.
They felt a sense of betrayal by the writers that they’d been portraying
all this stuff that was nothing, but empty lies in their eyes. They really
did feel a sense of the rug being pulled from underneath them.
I think the other two felt more excited.
Michael Trucco and Rekha Sharma had been slightly more on the margins of
the show and this was a real indication that they’d now be at the core
of where the show was going. That gradually became the opinion, too, of
Michael and Aaron,
who have had some amazing stuff to do in Season 4 and they’re living
this existential angst every second of every day of who they are and
what they’re responsible for and whether their actions were preordained
in some way—they always have to make these decisions. Are their lives
worth anything as a result? Are they traitors or are they heroes?
