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Grace Park: Battlestar Galactica is a show about politics and survival and terrorism and, uh, love and faith. I think that the battle between two different ways of thinking, and what happens when there's been decades of bloodshed and turmoil and rage between these two sets of people -- and then there's, like, a dark, deep chasm between the two; and, like, are we ever going to cross it? And what's starting to happen in second season is, like, Helo and Sharon fall in love, and it's almost like they're bridging the gap but they're both in the void. And they could fall forever. Or it could be like the beginning of something.
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Tahmoh Penikett (Lt. Karl 'Helo' Agathon)
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Tahmoh Penikett: How you doing, Space Channel? I'm Tahmoh Penikett. I play Helo, Lt. Agathon, Electronic Communications Officer on the Battlestar Galactica. Now, this is my second time on set. I haven't been here since the miniseries, the pilot. So, we're going to discover this together. Take a walk with me. Let's see what we can find.
Tahmoh finds Adama's "Thai Jazz" book
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Penikett: As I said, guys, this is my second time here, so I'm pretty excited to check it out myself. And there's been some big expansion since the pilot. There's been new rooms built, all these new ships introduced in the TV series, so this is all new. We're going to see what we can find here. Aha! Adama's office. This is a special room. This is the commander's office. Very private, intimate place. This is our fearless leader's room. Let's see what we have here. There's some books, the last known books. What've we got here? We've got "Universal Standard Encyclopaedia." That's a good book. Read that one. What's this, what's this? We've got "Thai Jazz." Thai jazz, yeah. Thai jazz is good. I've heard Thai jazz before.
Tahmoh smells something cooking
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Grilled meat for the cast and crew
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Penikett: You gotta check this out. These cooks here are amazing. They take care of us well on this show. This is what we're having for lunch. Huh? How about that?
Tahmoh encounters Grace Park
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Penikett: This is the beautiful and talented Grace Park, who plays Boomer, Sharon Valerii.
Park: Hi. I play Sharon Valerii... Boomer.
Penikett: Sexy Cylon, isn't she?
Grace has a new dance
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Park: No, really, this is my new dance.
( Grace fancy-foots around Tahmoh )
Penikett: This is the new dance. This is... this is the new dance. Isn't that hot? Cylons, man, she's sure wack.
Park: It's hot, I know. And these are the new things.
Penikett: It's the sun, it's getting to her.
Park (laughing): Yeah. In Vancouver, we don't get the sun!
Penikett: This is how we're preparing for a big emotional scene today. Can't really go into detail. It's deep, theatrical, west coast techniques, but we'll talk about it another time.
Park: Yeah, we will. We'll give it to you later. But that's, like, the in-depth, behind, behind, behind the scenes.
Penikett: Exactly. One more little dance?
( Grace and Tahmoh do a jig )
Penikett: Okay, we gotta go.
Park: Okay, bye!
Penikett: We'll see you later.
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Running time: 46 seconds
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Penikett: Okay, you guys, Studio G. This is it. Hangar bay. It's got to be one of the best areas. Let's see what we can see. Aha! Now there you go. Information-gathering platform, the Raptor. Electronic Communications officer that I am, this is my baby. This is what I was trained for. Beautiful machine, isn't she? Let's check her out.
Now this is usually where I sit, right here in the Raptor. Recon missions, what have you. This is where Helo controls the ship, gathers all the information, does his business. Sharon, of course, is our pilot. I could be pilot if I wanted to, but I don't really want to. I like to gather information. So, I let her do it.
Penikett: Oh, here we go, Viper. Guys! Viper. This is what made the showfamous, original series and the new. This is the new version, of course, though. Look at this bad boy. I'd like to get my hands on one of these. Huh? This baby could tell a story. You know, she's been-- she's been in a lot of battles with the Cylons. Yeah, this is our hangar bay. This is it.
Okay, guys, I'm going to take you into the makeup room. I've got a big scene coming up with Grace Park. So, here we go.
Tahmoh in the makeup trailer
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Penikett: Trisha and Haley are responsible for all the wonderful makeup on this show. As everybody's seen, any of the wounds, any of the... people getting blown up, me looking like I'm suffering from radiation poisoning, all that stuff, these girls are responsible.
And these gentlemen are in charge of our hair. Let's come down and say hi, real quick.
Anyway, I got to get to my scene, so they're going to finish touching me up here, guys. Thanks for coming out. Look forward to seeing Space again.
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