Stargate Universe's Val Halverson - Universal Apparel
Val Halverson's photo courtesy of Joseph Mallozzi's blog
Having worked on both Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis, costume designer Val Halverson had plenty of experience under her proverbial belt when tasked with putting together the onscreen attire for the cast of Stargate Universe. There is, however, one slight difference between this series and its two predecessors in that most of the action takes place onboard the Ancients starship Destiny where our heroes are marooned. As a result of their predicament, they pretty much have had to make due with only the clothes on their backs.
“I saw that as a unique challenge,” says Halverson, sitting in her office on the Bridge Studios’ lot in Burnaby, British Columbia. “We knew, of course, ahead of time that these characters were going to be stranded on the Destiny, so for me that meant coming up with costumes that had depth as well as texture, not to mention a great look. So I just layered our actors up quite a bit, from the main cast right down to the background performers, so that they all had different looks within the same basic costume.
“That was something that I discussed a great deal with [series co-creators/executive producers] Brad Wright and Robert Cooper insofar as keeping the wardrobe interesting but still changing it up from time to time, starting with our number one on the call sheet, Robert Carlyle. We were so fortunate to get such a talented actor to play Dr. Nicholas Rush and I have to say that his character’s look has been quite fun to come up with. I began having a dialogue with Robert through e-mails before we even met, and I found out that the two of us were on the same page. We knew that Rush was a professor who was brilliant and not cantankerous but quite sure of himself..."
Additionally, Val Halverson maintains a costume blog at the official MGM Stargate site.
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