Stargate Universe co-star Alaina Huffman is pregnant, the actress told SCI FI PI — the Australian broadcaster’s official Web site — today.
The show is heading into its final week of filming for the first season. So with production on a hopeful second season gearing up in February, will the show’s writers include the pregnancy in Lt. Johansen’s storyline — or shoot around it?
“You have to watch,” Huffman smiled. “I think every actor on the Stargate franchise has had one or more kids. [The writers] know what they are doing, and they know how to deal with it. I can’t give away spoilers whether we are or are not going to entertain that possibility. You’ve just got to keep watching!”
Stargate‘s last pregnancy was Rachel Luttrell’s, which was turned into an on-going storyline in Atlantis‘s final two seasons. But others, such as Amanda Tapping’s maternity leave during the start of SG-1‘s ninth season, were written around (in that case, with a 5-episode leave of absence).
Huffman is married with two children. She told the site that SGU is an ideal environment for a working actor with a family.
“It’s my dream,” she said. “It’s an ensemble cast, so I am afforded the ability to walk my kids to school and sometimes pick them up, or sometimes both, and still work and still have tons of time off every year. … I couldn’t ask for a better job or a better situation.”
In the full interview, Huffman also talks about settling into T.J.’s character in the first season, the off-screen friendships she has developed, and more. Watch it now at SCI FI PI! Part 2 of the interview is coming soon.
Stargate Universe airs Fridays at 9 p.m. (8 Central) on Syfy in the U.S., and Fridays at 8:30 p.m. (with new episodes airing one week later) on SCI FI Australia.
Congratulations to Alaina and her family!
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Honestly... I have to say I totally saw that coming. I think there is a possibility that the writers will use that in the storyline.
kill her off. she's a nothing character.
@Jack_Bauer
Yeah lets get rid of the only medical personal on the whole ship, that sounds like a smart idea.
@Eden
You saw what coming? That Huffman was going to get pregnant? Cause that seems a little creepy.
Stargate has gone both ways with including pregnancy in the show, I think it will depend on what sort of character TJ becomes, there is obviously a chance that they will use it, but at the same time, adding a child too the ship this early on might not be the best idea. Worked differently in Voyager, they knew from the start that they wanted a single child, you get too see from the kids point of view every now and then, but the ships are entirely different entities so you can't so easily have a child on Destiny.
@canonfodder:
Ahh right, so the writers aren't allowed to kill a character off because it means the survivors will struggle without the medic? How very... convenient.
@Jack_Bauer:
We are 4 episodes in. Give it a break. How can you say she is a useless character if we haven't had enough screen time to make a statement like that.
Maybe *this* time the writers can actually do something with the pregnancy. It could make great angst to be preggie aboard an old rusty ship and there's nothing she can do.
I guess we'll have to wait.
Congratulations to Alaina!
But I hope they do not write it into the show, the last thing SGU needs is baby angst.
LOL!!, I bet Col. Everett Young might have had something to do with That. (Atleast the Podcasts, which I finally listened to seems to think Young had some deep/dark liason with Johanssen (or whatever her name's supposed to be)
Also hope someone will post if that story line happens on this Forum (since I've moved on, but still fun to figure out that it was predicted waaay back when..)
I hope they don't write it into the show. Pregnant women in movies and TV are frequently defined only by the contents of their womb. This group of writers did exactly that with Teyla in Atlantis. The women on this show are poorly characterized and stereotyped as it is.