STARGATE SG-1 - SCIFI AND TV TALK: Sci-Fi Blast From The Past - Claudia Black
By Steve Eramo
06/02/2011
In today's Sci-Fi Blast From The Past, versatile and talented actress Claudia Black talks about reprising her role of Aeryn Sun in Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars and her early days playing Vala Mal Doran in Stargate SG-1.
For four years, the eclectic crew of the living starship Moya risked their lives battling all manner of adversaries in an effort to right universal wrongs on the hit Sci-Fi Channel series Farscape. Among them was a Sebacean Peacekeeper called Aeryn Sun. A former soldier in the Peacekeeper corps, she felt at first uneasy about having to cooperate with a group of non-Peacekeepers for her survival. However, over time, she came to regard these strangers as her friends, including Commander John Crichton, a human astronaut who Aeryn eventually fell in love with.
After Farscape ended, Claudia Black, the talented actress who played Aeryn, went on to do other projects. Oddly enough, this past summer she found herself back in outer space when the producers of Stargate SG-1 booked her for a guest-starring role in the eighth season episode Prometheus Unbound. Of course, locating the actress in order to offer her the job proved to be a bit of a challenge.
“Apparently, the casting people from Stargate were trying to track me down for a while,” says Black. “They had, in fact, contacted me last year about a part but the timing didn’t work out. When you’re on a long-running TV show such as Farscape, people discover you and want to use you in their project. However, you either never seem to be around or are in the wrong country. If both sides are lucky, you’re eventually able to connect, which is what happened here.
“Initially, I didn’t think I’d be able to do Stargate. When I got the phone call I was in Australia doing ADR [Automated Dialogue Replacement] work for the Farscape miniseries [Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars]. Obviously the ADR work was a priority, but as luck would have it I finished a day or two early. The Stargate people told my agent, ‘If you can get Claudia to the embassy, get her work papers, and on a plane to Canada, we can do this.’ So that’s what we did. Let me tell you, it was the worst case of jetlag I’ve experienced in my entire life. That said, I wouldn’t have missed doing Stargate for the world..."
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