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BATTLESTAR GALACTICA NEWS
Tricia Helfer on the many faces of Six
FRIDAY - MARCH 10, 2006
by Livi Dolgin
Tricia Helfer, who co-stars on Battlestar Galactica as Number Six, told Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine that hers is one of the most complex and complicated characters ever created for science fiction television. The character is at the same time a murderess, seductress, mental figment, spy, artificial life form, and God-worshipping fanatic.
"Six is the ultimate personification of male fantasy," she said. "She's a sexy figment of Baltar's mind and interacting only with his psyche."
For Helfer, the actress behind all incarnations of the Cylon temptress, it is the opportunities to reach outside the confines of Baltar's mind that she most enjoys. For the past two years, Helfer's challenge has been to push the character's boundaries.
"I've actually played four versions of Number Six," Helfer said, sitting in her trailer during a break in filming. "As an actor that's fantastic. The Six in Baltar's head can be limiting, in a way, because you can't interact with the other characters. There's a certain relationship that they have that doesn't let you branch out. For me, it's fun to have other Sixes, to be able to have scenes with [other characters]. [But] I love working with James. I don't want to change that!"
"But at the same time, it's really technically hard to do those scenes. It's not necessarily so much about interacting with other characters, it's just technically really hard. There's so much that you have to pay attention to -- half the time I'm chasing the camera around, so that at the exact moment where the camera pans, where it was empty a moment ago suddenly to be in the scene. It's hard to get there mentally when you've got so much to be thinking about. So for me as an actress, it's nice to be able to let that technical stuff go and really get into the scene and be interacting with everyone else."
With multiple characters in the same iteration, Helfer tries to approach each different Six in a way unique to that specific character. Each Six is a clone of the same original being, but Helfer explains that they are all different and distinct characters.
Read the full interview in Issue #3 of Battlestar Galactica: The Official Magazine, now on news stands! Galactica's second season concludes tonight, March 10, with a 90-minute season finale.
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