But I think that the fact that there were twenty episodes, with all these characters: How do you know how to serve each one and still tell the story, still serve the fans and still serve the show? I wish we had done a bit more with her - gotten back to a bit more original Carter by the end of the first season than we did. I don’t want to screw it up,” and “How would I be the most effective leader in a place that I’ve never been before?” So that’s how I approached it with Joe and Paul. I talked to Joe and Paul about the fact that I didn’t want to go in kicking ass and busting balls - which would be Carter’s bent, I think, in a subordinate situation - but as a leader I think she said, “Okay, well this is the first time I’ve ever had a real command. On Atlantis, Carter seemed much more stressed, not as exuberant as on SG-1… I’m curious about the combination of actor versus character.Īmanda Tapping: I think it’s partly the writing as well. SheKnows: Right, you played it very differently. Carter went in saying, “I am going to defer to the expertise of the people on this base, and that’s how I’m going to chose to move this machine, by respecting the people around me and by listening to what they have to say,” and that’s how I went in, too. That was the thing for Carter - it was really interesting, because the relationship that she had with her crewmates on Atlantis was not dissimilar to how I felt going in. SheKnows: And that sense of being an outsider was sort of reflective of the actual situation, too.Īmanda Tapping: Absolutely. I didn’t want them to feel I was coming in to take over - I was just coming to do whatever I could on what I already thought was a great show. I mean you’re bringing in this other character from a show that’s been on for ten years, well-established, and I didn’t want anyone to feel threatened by that. I treated myself more like a guest star than a regular when I first got there, because it’s their show. I love the cast of Atlantis and I’ve known them for a long time - but I was very cautious about not stepping on anyone’s toes about the fact that it wasn’t “my” show. SheKnows: How did you like working on the show - especially compared to what you’re doing now and SG-1?Īmanda Tapping: It was interesting. It wasn’t in competition with Stargate Atlantis, because it was only on the web at the time we could produce it. So if Sanctuary were to continue in the way it was going, there was still a possibility to make it work. My commitment on Atlantis was for the full season, but it was only for a certain number of days per episode. But Sanctuary was going to be the project I did in the off-season, and at that point we were only doing it for the web. SheKnows: So you knew it wasn’t going to be a one season deal if Sanctuary took off - or what was sort of the plan there?Īmanda Tapping: No - at that point Sanctuary was just living and breathing on the web, so I committed to one season of Atlantis not knowing if it was going to be picked up or what was going to happen next. SheKnows: Could we touch a little on your time on Stargate Atlantis - which was going on while you were planning Sanctuary?Īmanda Tapping: Yeah, I actually shot the webisode for Sanctuary before… that was in January 2007 - and I started my first season, which was season four of Atlantis, that February. We talked to Ms Tapping all about her roles as both star and executive producer of Sanctuary in part one of our interview, but here, the actress tells us more about Stargate - past, present, and future.
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