Stargate Universe - SciFi and TV Talk: Louis Ferreira Interview

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SCIFI AND TV TALK: Stargate Universe's Louis Ferreira - Forever Young

By Steve Eramo
05/14/2011

This is one of a handful of unpublished interviews I still have left from my Stargate Universe set visit last July. Hope you enjoy it!

Decisions, decisions, decisions – if you happen to be lucky (or in some cases unlucky) enough to be in a leadership position, then you are faced with making decisions on a daily basis. Stargate Universe’s Colonel Everett Young knows that only too well. As commander of a group of military men and women as well as scientists and civilians,all of whom are marooned onboard the Ancients starship Destiny, he constantly makes decisions that affect his life as well as theirs.

In the Universe second season episode Deliverance, the colonel is juggling several balls, including one where the outcome will determine the future of one of his crewmates. For actor Louis Ferreira, who plays Young, this sort of personal angst is what makes working on the series and playing his character so much fun for him.



“The episode that we’re currently filming [early July 2010] is one big space battle,” reveals Ferreira, who has stepped away from the set for a chat in Universe’s publicity office on the Bridge Studios lot in Burnaby, British Columbia. “And the challenge with it, really, because I think this show is, in fact, a character drama, is bringing the history of these people to the battle. So instead of just having an episode about things blowing up, it’s one where you have all this character development running parallel to all the action, if that makes any sense,” says the actor with a smile. “That to me is what makes a good drama, where the characters get under your skin and you come to understand where they’re coming from and even what it must be like for them to confront their demons.

“And I can tell you that this season, my character hits rock bottom. It gets worse and worse for Young until he sinks right to the bottom and is challenged in such a way where he has to make some tough decisions...”