The SFX Stalker asks the
questions that really make the stars go ... "Freak!"
AARON DOUGLAS
The 34 year-old Canadian actor plays Chief Tyrol
in the excellent Battlestar Galactica TV series, and we cornered him at
the Memorabilia event to uncover the truth about his secret history in
Canadian logging and illegal egg-throwing.
SFX: What's the most illegal thing you've
ever done?
Aaron Douglas: That I got caught for? I
threw an egg when I was in my teens. Well, a couple of eggs. One after the
other, in rapid succession. And they seemed to find their way to an
officer of the law. I got in a lot of trouble for that, deservedly so.
SFX: What makes you
angry day-to-day?
Aaron Douglas: Rude
people. Bad refereeing. Slow drivers. My putter. My three-iron. My
four-iron. My five-iron. Sometimes my nine-iron - actually I broke my
nine iron so it's dead to me now.
SFX: If you were
invisible for a day what would you do?
Aaron Douglas: I
would go sit in on meetings held in and around the white house and see
just what is really going on there, and just who really is running that
place.
SFX: And if you
could have another superpower too?
Aaron Douglas: I'd
want the ability to change into anything. And change other things into
anything. Like a shape-shifter. But also to turn a chair into a rock or
something.
SFX: What sort of
thing do you get sent by fans?
Aaron Douglas:
There's a woman, probably my biggest fan - she's absolutely delightful.
She posts all over the web, talks about me incessantly. She sent me this
massive, massive scrapbook that must have taken her literally months to
make. It's clippings and pictures and poems and it's absolutely fantastic,
and I'm stunned by the effort that went into this thing.
SFX: What's the dumbest
job you ever had to do?
Aaron Douglas:
Everything I did before this was dumb! Nothing I'd want to go back to.
There was a braindead job, working for a guy who built docks, you know,
for boats. I had to go and pick up the logs for the wood.
SFX: You were a
lumberjack!
Aaron Douglas:
Basically I was a log mover.
SFX: What's the most
difficult line you've had to say on tv?
Aaron Douglas:
Probably the lines where it's written in the script that Tyrol turns and
see his man slipping away and has to yell "Noooooooooooo!" Those lines are
the worst, I hate that stuff.
SFX: What are you most
hoping will happen to your character?
Aaron Douglas: That
he'll have an affair with every girl on the show! And I want Tyrol to save
the universe and have his own spin-off show. Yeah, Adama gets killed and
Tyrol now runs the Battlestar. He turns it into a giant floating bar! They
call it The Tyrol Show.
SFX: Where do you
hide your pornography?
Aaron Douglas: I
don't hide it.
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