GAY CALGARY MAGAZINE: Amanda Tapping - Leather, Bullets and Grace
By Jade Cooper
April 2012
Amanda Tapping and Sandrine Holt lock lips on screen. Was it a stunt or true to the character? We chatted with the Syfy star about the kiss, her role as a director and embracing the full spectrum of our reality...
In “Monsoon” (Season 4 Episode 4) Magnus and Charolette Benoit (played by the stunning Sandrine Holt) share a passionate kiss with a harrowing experience. While waiting in a remote airport, both Benoit and Magnus find themselves hijacked by enterprising thieves with a hidden agenda. Magnus saves Benoit and the two rescue the hostages. The episode not only ends with a jaw dropping kiss, Magnus adds a huge
cliff hanger when she says, “I haven’t been kissed like that in a very long time.” She then passionately reciprocates, hinting that there’s an ocean of information we have yet to discover about this immortal character.
The kiss has received positive and negative reviews. From praise, to bewilderment, some bloggers have even wrote they will no longer watch the show. The kiss may have rattled some audiences, but Tapping is unfazed by the furor.
“I have always maintained that, Helen, having lived as long as she has and having the type of personality she has, that she would be a bi-sexual person. After 270 years, men are fabulous, but, there is so much more out there. I think she is a very open, sexual and engaging person.” Tapping and the producers of the show have gone though history, asking themselves, “Who would Magnus have had affairs with?” Tapping entertains the idea of people like Dorothy Parker would be of interest to Magnus. “I have always maintained that Helen, in as much as her paramours have been men, would have really amazing relationships with women and I have never shied away from that...”
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