Black: Vala is naughty and irreverent

Actress Claudia Black certainly is enjoying reprising her role as Stargate‘s devilish con artist Vala, she told Sci Fi Wire in an interview this week.

“I’ve come to make Michael Shanks’s [“Daniel Jackson”] life a misery,” Black said. “The character I’m playing is sort of the hair-pulling variety. She’s really infuriating, but, I hope, funny. She’s the naughty kid that says everything that everyone else is thinking, but doesn’t dare say. She’s irreverent. Everything she says is to get a rise or reaction out of someone.”

Black also noted how different Vala is from the role that won her recognition in the science fiction community, that of Farscape‘s Aeryn Sun. “[Vala is] also a highly comedic character,” she said. “She provides a lot of energy and comedy. And that was something. … Aeryn was a very dramatic, weighty serious character, and I think smiled once a season. Vala is completely the opposite from that perspective alone.”

Visit Sci Fi Wire for the complete article, in which co-star Ben Browder (“Lt. Colonel Cameron Mitchell”) also talks about joining the cast, and working with his former Farscape co-star.

Season Nine of Stargate SG-1 premieres July 15 on The SCI FI Channel in the U.S.

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