Sci-Fi Casting Coup: ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Vet Katee Sackhoff Joins ‘The Bionic Woman’
NBC’s Recently Picked-Up Remake Just Keeps Looking Better and Better
Although Battlestar Galactica fans have excellent reason to mourn the recent news that Sci Fi Channel’s spectacular show will end after the fourth season that begins in January 2008, the despair is at least partially alleviated by the casting of series veteran Katee Sackhoff, who plays Battlestar‘s daring Captain Kara “Starbuck” Thrace, in NBC’s promising new adaptation of the 1970s Bionic Woman series. The earlier version, itself a spinoff of the highly successful Lee Majors vehicle The Six Million Dollar Man, starred Lindsay Wagner as the first female cyborg Jamie Sommers, a secret agent with scientifically enhanced special abilities related to her mechanically altered ear, arm, and legs following a near-fatal parachuting accident.
In NBC’s upcoming version, British actress Michelle Ryan assumes the lead Sommers role, while Sackhoff will portray Sarah Corvus, the original female bionic cyborg that preceded the title character in a plot twist absent from the Wagner series. During a recent interview with SCI FI Wire, Sackhoff stated that Corvus possesses “two bionic arms, both legs, two eyes, one ear, part of [her] chest.”
Interestingly, Sackhoff also shares that her new sci-fi role is closer to Battlestar Galactica‘s infamously seductive Cylon Number Six (played by Canadian actress Tricia Helfer) rather than her athletic, no-nonsense character Starbuck: “My biggest fear was that Sarah Corvus was going to turn out like Starbuck. But she didn’t. She turned out a little like Number Six.… She’s the femme fatale. She’s dangerous. She’s sexy. She knows it, and she uses it.”
Well, those details alone will definitely give male Battlestar fans even more reason to tune into Sackhoff’s new show.
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Katee Sackhoff photo courtesy of Steve Granitz/WireImage.com
