Katee Sackhoff
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Sci-fi was a place because I โ so I was a huge fan of strong women and genre work.
And I found myself gravitating toward sci-fi because that's where women existed that I identified with and I saw myself.
Like, you know, I didn't see myself as like this, you know โ
well, the characters I played when I moved to California.
It didn't feel like me, you know?
found sort of my calling I guess when I started watching those women and I loved Sarah Michelle Gellar and I loved Lucy Lawless and I loved Linda Hamilton and Carrie Fisher and like a lot of these women that were just really really great characters and they were written as great characters and
Starbuck was, and if you talk to Ron more about it, the reason why he made Starbuck and Boomer women, he didn't think about it.
He just said, OK, we've got these are the characters from the original.
These are the characters we're going to put in my version.
Women are in the military.
Women do exist in combat roles now.
And we are making this for, you know, the early aughts.
We have to be representative of what the military looks like.
We need to make a couple of these characters women.
And he just said this one and this one.
He didn't even give it any thought, you know?
And so I think part of the reason why they were so great, the characters were so great, was that they were just great characters.
The writing was so great.