Is Caprica Six the hardest women in science fiction? Could she have, say, the Bionic Woman or Sarah Connor?
Oh, totally. Seeing as the Bionic Woman is actually bionic, she might be able to outlast my body. But I’d be able to download to a new body. I don’t think she could kill me for good. I think I could outdo Sarah Connor as well. Even with a huge gun. After all [puts on sinister character voice] she’s only a human.
How did you prepare for the audition? Watch Terminator over and over again?
My take on it was not to make her Terminator cold, more human than that. She was still living amongst the humans for two years, undetected, so I thought that she had to be fairly… she had to fit in. She had to stand out, and yet fit in, if that makes sense.
Sci-fi fans are notoriously fickle – how have you found them?
I do a couple of conventions a year and during the Q&A session there are questions that I can’t answer because I don’t know. I mean, even to this day I don’t know why Number Six can only be seen by Gaius Baltar [slimey, super intelligent human traitor]. It’s the last season so a lot of questions are being answered.
So do you know the fate of Six yet? Does she kill Starbuck?
Ha! If it wasn’t for that lucky fall over the edge, I would’ve had her! I hope I’ll get a rematch. I love doing stunt fights. I get a little bit from what we’ve shot so far, but not full-on fights. I can’t really tell you what happens, but you know, I get shot, I shoot people. But I’m hoping for another big drag-down fight before the end of the season.