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Katee Sackhoff

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1615 total appearances

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The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

Sci-fi was a place because I โ€“ so I was a huge fan of strong women and genre work.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

And I found myself gravitating toward sci-fi because that's where women existed that I identified with and I saw myself.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

Like, you know, I didn't see myself as like this, you know โ€“

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

well, the characters I played when I moved to California.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

It didn't feel like me, you know?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

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

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

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.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

He just said, OK, we've got these are the characters from the original.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

These are the characters we're going to put in my version.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

Women are in the military.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

Women do exist in combat roles now.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

And we are making this for, you know, the early aughts.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

We have to be representative of what the military looks like.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

We need to make a couple of these characters women.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

And he just said this one and this one.

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

He didn't even give it any thought, you know?

The Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

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 Joe Rogan Experience
#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

The writing was so great.