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KH: Who knows what I would do in the actual situation? I'd probably be out of there so fast. I don't know. But in my ideal world, if I was the person I hope I am I would have stayed, I think. I understand that. I felt a lot of sympathy for Henry Wallace, and again, maybe that's because Steven Culp has those sad blue eyes. But I think there's a lot of pain in that character. He didn't seem like a bad guy. He seemed like a good guy. He was going about things the wrong way.
GW: Well he lost his wife, and now he's losing his child. At his wits end! The resolution to that episode was a stirring one for many Atlantis fans. Sheppard guilts himself into sacrificing himself to a Wraith by using pictures of Jean's family. Many fans have different opinions to this. What's yours?
KH: I thought it was great. It was dark and it was surprising. It was vibrant.
GW: Yeah, it was very different.
KH: Oh yeah. And I think he wasn't necessarily guilting him into it. My take on it was Henry Wallace wouldn't have lived very long anyway. He was completely broken and he lost everything that was important to him.
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I think there was a connection between Jeannie and Wallace. I think there was a definite connection there. The only thing he could do to make his life worth something was to give something back. So I felt it was actually very clever. Sheppard barely even had to mention it, and he agreed. So I really liked that. I thought that was nice. I like those darker moments on Atlantis.
GW: What can you tell us about your return in "The Last Man?" We know Sheppard returns to Atlantis to find the city deserted in the middle of a desert, but as far as Jean's character is concerned, what can you tell us?
KH: Well it's sort of a "blink and you'll miss me." There's a little montage and I'm in it. That's basically it. But it's a great episode. Very exciting episode. And David's got lots to do, and he's really good.
GW: Cool. This montage, does it connect into Season Five? Is there a chance that you'll be in the premiere?
KH: I hope so? I don't think so. It's more about -- that depends, actually. I don't know. I hope so. Let's plant that seed!
GW: OK! There's a chance? I don't know what your scene in this episode involves, if it's just a flashback or whatever.
KH: Yeah, it's more of a flashback. But it could relate to other episodes. I'm being mysterious. Am I not mysterious enough?
GW: Yes, you've got it down, girl.
KH: Three weeks ago I did an interview and it was before the episode aired. Every question she asked me I was like, "Well, something happens and then someone reacts." It was the worst interview because I thought I couldn't say anything. And at the end of the interview she said, "Oh, no, this will come out after the episode airs." I just came across like the most boring person! Terrible!
GW: Well, you want to come back!
KH: Yeah, yeah. I certainly do.
GW: It's been a year since we last spoke with you. Is there anything new going on? You told me before we got started a couple of things happening.
KH: Yeah! I've been moving a lot. For some reason I move all the time. I was in Vancouver for five months, and then I was in New York for five weeks, and I just got back to Toronto two weeks ago. Been moving around. It's been exciting.
GW: Now do you have homes in all of those places or are you just moving from place to place, and after that just not going back?
KH: I have homes in none of those places, actually! [Laughter] I'm eternally homeless. I don't know why I do that. I was actually renting a place in Vancouver from my dad, which was very reasonable rent. It was beautiful, beautiful house in Kitsilano.
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Then in New York I was there doing a show, so I was there for five weeks and I moved pretty much every few days. I was staying somewhere different because I was staying with friends, or in hotels, or in short sublets. That kind of thing.
GW: Oh, OK. Did that have something to do with your play?
KH: Yes, Humans Anonymous, that I wrote for their Fringe Festival a couple years ago, or I guess a year and a half ago. A woman from New York came to see it. She really liked it and was interested in producing it there. The Bridge Theater Company. They're amazing.
GW: Yes, I've heard of them. The Stargate people speak very highly of them.
KH: They're really, really good, and their mandate is to do Canadian plays in New York. To move the two cultures together. They do both American and Canadian work, but there's always some element of both. It's great.
Yeah, she saw it and she liked it. So she took it there. We did a reading of it last year, and that went over well. They talked to me about the possibility of expanding it into a 90-minute play. I worked on that while I was in Vancouver, and I now have a two-act version of it. And that's what we did there.
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