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CC: Ah, good one. Always love doing scenes with [David] Nykl. I get along with Nykl outside set as well, so we always have a good laugh. Used to love doing scenes with Torri. I really liked working with Torri. She was so much fun to work with. She was such a professional, but yet loved to have a good belly laugh. Makes the day go by so much nicer.
I was intimidated by Amanda when I first met her.
GW: Really?
CC: Yeah, I was, because Amanda's so good and she's been with it from the beginning. You ever meet those people that are just generally nice. "She's going to flip out or going to get pissed." She doesn't. She's just a generally nice woman. She'd treat you the same way on set as she would if you were in the grocery store, because she's just a nice woman.
GW: I'd never met an actress before that her first instinct when she first meets you is to hug you.
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CC: You see what I mean? That's just the way she is. She's just generally kind. Not that I'm saying most actresses aren't, but for someone of her status ... it's not the norm, I guess, for someone of her level. Very approachable.
GW: Was that difficult or was it an easy transition from Torri to Amanda?
CC: It was pretty smooth. I think it was more difficult outside of doing the scenes, just because "Ah, she's gone. Now Torri will be off and she'll be very successful in whatever she does but you still miss her because there was a chemistry there."
And when Amanda came in she kept her character the same as she did with Samantha Carter, but yet she almost played it like it would be the position that she was in of "I don't want to step on toes here. I have to be the new leader, but let's respect what these people have done in the past."
It just worked that way. I don't know if it would've worked with another alpha male character. I don't know if it would have been as an easy transition as it was. She's just a born leader. It works that way.
GW: It's interesting because it's the same character you know, but in a lot of ways it's not the same character because it's not the same role.
CC: That's right. She works that. That's the great thing. I think that's probably what attracted her to coming on with us. "Well, I've got to do something different." Well believe me, the Pegasus Galaxy is a little different.
GW: Right. Just a bit. Life-sucking aliens, yeah.
CC: Yeah. "You want different? We can give you a little different."
GW: Any chance we're going to see Chuck go off-world this new season?
CC: Oh bro, on one side of it I really hope so and on the other side I'm like, "Don't put the red shirt on me. I don't want to go to a planet." I don't know. I would love to go. It would be a great experience to get to be involved with that, but I think they like him hanging out by the control room. We'll have to see. I'm up for it if they do it, and if they don't, well, I can understand that.
GW: Did you appear in ["Quarantine?"]
" I was intimidated by Amanda when I first met her ... because Amanda's so good and she's been with it from the beginning."
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CC: Yes I was in that one. Zelenka and Carter get caught in an elevator. Hewlett and his old flame get caught in the room with all the plants.
Yeah, the botany lab.
CC: That's it. Yeah, man, I was in that one. And I got to work with another technician girl. She had a couple of lines in that one as well.
GW: That was my next question. Where did Chuck get stuck?
CC: Yeah -- this is surprising that you would ask this, because I forgot about this, David -- we actually got to go downstairs. We were out of the control room.
GW: Really?
CC: Yeah! [Laughter] We got to go, and I remember joking. I was like, "Oh my God, I'm downstairs! I'm downstairs!" So we were in one of the rooms downstairs trying to get them out of the elevator when they were stuck in it.
GW: Oh sweet.
CC: That was cool. I forgot about that.
GW: Nice to break it up a little bit.
CC: It was. That was a really fun day. I remember that.
GW: Alright. What have been some of your favorite shows from Season Four from a story standpoint? What's really attracted you?
CC: Let's see here. I have a list.
GW: We're up to ... "The Seer" just aired.
CC: Oh, "The Seer," OK. Yeah, "The Seer," I got to be in that one. That was fun because Andy got to direct that one. I like working with Andy.
GW: Andy Mikita, yeah. He's a good guy.
CC: Yeah he is, yeah. Funny guy, too. "The Seer," I was in that one. I remember, yeah, that was a little bit of a run. I think it was "The Seer," "[This'] Mortal Coil," and then "All My Sins Remember'd," I think it was. Now I forgot what you asked me from the beginning.
GW: What are some of your favorite episodes from this year?
CC: OK. "The Seer" actually is one of 'em. That was a good one. I think later on there was one called "Quarantine." That was kind of cool.
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GW: That's the one that I was just referring to, I believe. That's "Quarantine." I'm sorry. Not "Lockdown." What am I thinking? That's my bad.
CC: That's cool. That was a cool one. I remember that one. Then of course the two-parter, "The Kindred." I think having Connor [Trinneer] on the set is cool. I love that character that he plays, and Connor's such a good guy.
GW: Yes, he is a good guy.
CC: I like watching him do his stuff. He's one of those, as I was saying, one of those guys from the top level when you watch and you go "Yep, you're going to be working after this."
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