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CS: She's: a) adorable, just adorable, and b) what surprised me was that she's a stand-up comic. Her upbringing, her background is stand-up comedy. Improv comedy. She comes from an improv comedy group and sort of found herself as this iconic science fiction heroine in this terrific show.
But she's hysterically funny and she comes from a Canadian ... like a Groundling, a comedy improv group, she's hysterical. She couldn't have been sweeter and nicer to work with. A terrific actress. The whole thing was just really one of those fortunate experiences you have as an actor. You never know what you're going to get into when you go off to do a show somewhere. Sometimes it's just like you have to get through it and do the job. And sometimes they just turn out to be a delight, and this was one, from every aspect, turned out to be delightful.
GW: That's great. It's just magic, right? Well, the show lasts for twelve years in three different forms. They've got to be doing something right. [Laughter]
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" Every morning you wake up there a bazillion things to be anxious about. And we've learned to cope with those anxieties."
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CS: Yes, exactly. A lot of it was this amazing fan base that just devoured every morsel of it.
GW: Oh, yes. And from Season Eight, "Covenant" is certainly one of my favorite episodes. It did something different but it was close to home, it was on Earth. It's not off in the galaxy worrying about some alien race whose about to be blown away by another other alien race. It was even more about us, so it was really good.
So what are you currently working on that we should keep a look-out for?
CS: Right now I just did the last couple of episodes of Mad Men, a season of Mad Men, which is a very successful AMC show. It's about advertising on Madison Avenue in the 1960's. And it just finished its second season. My character, his company merged with the main company, so there's always a possibility that he might pop up again, which would be great.
I also just did sometime ago, I did a play at the Pasadena Playhouse, which was great to get back on stage. I did a voice for an animation movie that's coming out around the holiday time with Dustin Hoffman called "The Tale of Despereaux, which is a cute kid's movie. Kind of like "Ratatouille," that sort of thing, animation movie.
What else? I'm doing on a job on Friday, I'm doing a couple of days on a movie. I'm keeping busy, no regular gig as they say, not a series as such. But it's pilot season right now, so you never know.
There's a very interesting pilot doing the rounds, which I'm going to try and get myself in on. It's kind of a TV version of "Galaxy Quest."
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GW: Oh, really!
CS: It's called, "To Boldly Go," and it's hysterically funny. It's a farce. It's very, very funny. It's a starship crew, it's basically a comedy, and it's very funny. And it takes a lot of archetypal characters from those sorts of shows. It's really like if you took "Galaxy Quest" and mixed it with -- what is that - [I>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia] -- one of those quirky comedies they have now, and put it on TV as a series. That's what you'd get. I'm just trying to get myself in front of them for that.
Otherwise, just bits and pieces, just whatever comes along.
GW: Well, best of luck, Charles. You sure sound like you're staying busy.
CS: Yeah, trying to keep busy. Doing some other stuff with my brother. We've got a couple of internet ventures that we're into. There's so much moving onto the Internet now. Like a lot of actors, we're kind of producing our own material and investigating ways of being our own studios and networks.
So that's something else that's keeping us busy. So yeah, keeping busy, keeping afloat, keeping healthy, enjoying life and that's kind of it, really.
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