 
GW: Fans have dubbed him in the past, previously, with his first name as Marcus. I know we talked about that with you a little bit about that before (in a previous interview).
KS: Mmm-hmm.
GW: But in "The Last Man", we see that his first initial is "E". And it's been confirmed by some of the production staff and writers since -- that it was cut out of the episode -- but that his first name is Evan. Did you have a preference as to what you preferred it would have been?
KS: The only thing -- I know the fans kind of had this thing about some bizarro names. And I was fine with anything that wasn't bizarro. One was "Spanski." And I don't understand what the hell that was supposed to mean. But anything would have been fine. I think "Evan" is great. I know an Evan. He's a nice guy.
GW: What do you think are some of the reasons that fans identify so much with Lorne? What makes him real?
KS: I think he's that sort of faithful, loyal guy that everybody kind of knows. You don't know too much about him, but you kind of like him. You want to know more about him. He sort of represents the "everyman", I think. A lot of times, not being one of the key guys on the show, or the leads of the show, it's nice to be able to have some guy that is just sort of the steady constant. And I think he represents that.
" It's nice to be able to have some guy that is just sort of the steady constant."
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I think it's a bit more approachable sometimes for people. Even though they want to deify some of the leads. Like "Oh, man, I'd love to be ‘so-and-so.'" But I think it's more realistic sometimes to say "Yeah, you know that Lorne guy. I understand that. I sort of live that life myself." So, he's a very approachable kind of guy, I think.
GW: Season Five. Filming recently commenced a few weeks ago.
KS: Mmm-hmm.
GW: We know we're going to see you in the premiere, "Search and Rescue." Have you been confirmed for any more episodes as of yet?
KS: I think we've done, what, six now? Moving on to six. And I've done three or four. Three I think, maybe. Prepping six right now. I think I've done three so far. The first one was a lot of fun. A lot of rubble. The continuation obviously. "Search and Rescue" was a lot of fun. I can't say anything about that. I can't say anything about any of them. But I've been in them. The truth is I don't remember what happened in them anyway [Laughter]. I shoot it, I go home, I get drunk. [Laughter]
GW: Without going into spoilers, do you know how much of a role Lorne will play in them? Does anything increase?
KS: I think in this past season, he's sort of taking over as the second-in-command, militarily speaking. They sort of defined that a little bit more in detail. So I think anytime that Sheppard's off doing something, I think that there's an opportunity to have Lorne commanding a second team somewhere. And I hope they give that some definition, and give it some depth.
GW: The character has really come a long way since the first time we saw you back in Season Seven of SG-1.
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The character of Lorne was introduced in the SG-1 episode "Enemy Mine." |
KS: He really has, yeah. So we'll see what happens. They haven't killed me yet, which is surprising as hell. I'm still around.
GW: You're not a doctor.
KS: Not a doctor. You know no one dies on the show unless you're a doctor. So if I end up going to med school in the next episode or something like that then I'm dead.
GW: Yeah, be careful.
KS: Yeah.
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