Sanctuary - Starry Constellation Magazine: Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne Interview

Source: Starry Constellation Magazine [follow link for complete lengthy interview]



SANCTUARY - STARRY CONSTELLATION MAGAZINE: Amanda Tapping and Robin Dunne Interview

by: Jamie Steinberg

[NOTE: Sanctuary season four premieres on Syfy (and in Canada on Space Channel), Friday, October 7, 2011 at 10/9C.]

... Q) Also, what was it like to have Gil Bellows on this season?



Gil Bellows and Amanda Tapping from Sanctuary season four

Amanda Tapping: "Oh, fantastic. We got him on for the last two episodes, and he's just a really lovely man. And he completely got the Sanctuary vibe, he just kept saying, "What a great set." And he was so happy to be there. And he's got a really gentle spirit. I mean I didn't know a lot about Gil, I know his work most definitely, but he walked on and he was just so, sort of zen. He's just a really, really interesting man. And we loved it. We loved, because there's a darkness to his character, so dark, and so nasty. And then you've got Gil playing it, it just seems like the antithesis, it's really, it was very interesting."

Robin Dunne: "And we've been so extremely lucky on Sanctuary, to keep welcoming these people who come into the group, and kind of, after they're there for a few days, you don't really remember what it was like without them."

Amanda Tapping: "That's exactly what it was like with Gil. And Brian Markinson, same thing."

Robin Dunne: "Brian Markinson, the same thing, and, yes. And also man, like the guy was in the Shawshank Redemption, you know, the coolest movie of all time. And I did not geek out on him much, a little bit, a little bit."

Amanda Tapping: "You geeked out a little bit..."