Holy frak! BSG's Katee Sackhoff joins Star Wars: The Clone Wars

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[Kosh GTO]

We love Katee Sackhoff. We loved her stogie-smoking, hard-drinking portrayal of Starbuck in the reboot of Battlestar Galactica, and we loved her brief appearances in the short-lived Bionic Woman reboot. This geek love is about to go to the next level when we "see" her in her next appearance.

Because Sackhoff will be voicing a role in Star Wars: The Clone Wars.

Entertainment Weekly spoke to supervising director Dave Filoni, who was tight-lipped about Sackhoff's actual role, except to say that she was going to portray "a memorable character."

But Filoni did dish about the influence of Battlestar Galactica on The Clone Wars:

    EW: Actually, there've been a number of BSG references on the show lately, like how a Separatist tactical droid said "By your command" a la the old chrome-domed Cylons.

    DF: See that's me being old, because that's classic Battlestar. The Separatist tactical droids have a similar sounding voice to old Cylons. In fact, the inspiration I had for those tactical droids was a Cylon in the original series called Lucifer. He was Baltar's adviser. I always like the idea of this really smart droid that could calculate all these possibilities. I thought the Droid Army should have these brainiac droids that could wage battles based on calculations of probability whereas the Jedi are fighting out of heart and commitment to each other.

Interviewer Christian Blauvelt was quick to recall that, once upon a time, 20th Century Fox sued the makers of the original Battlestar Galactica for copyright infringement. "t's amazing to see how it's come full circle, with Star Wars referencing Battlestar," Blauvelt said.

Sackhoff's role only cements this amazement.





The show is in bad need of new voices. They recycle waaaaay too many voice actors and it's not fooling anyone.Katee joining the now quickly expanding list of talented SyFy (SciFi) actors who have lent their voices to the series (Sam Witwer being the most recent) really lends wait to the show continuing to take a more mature direction then in Season One where LucasAnimation was trying to figure out which demographic would be drawn in, the older Star Wars fans, or the kids. Thankfully it would appear to be more the former as opposed to the later, as the recent content of the series would attest to. I have to wonder at what character Katee will play. I find myself hoping that it is not a Jedi. Maybe a Smuggler, or a Confederation Spy. Just, something not so cliche or that has been done to death.  GTO

[A-HK]

It's silly the way they use name actors to voice cartoons. It's purely for the publicity. It doesn't matter how sexy they look when it's just their voice.
There are many, many very good actors who have "a good face for radio" who should get the parts.

Shows like the Simpsons, Futurama, all the old Warner Bros cartoons, used voice talent, not TV actors. And real voice talents can indeed take multiple roles and make their voices fit. Most TV actors have one voice and that's it.
British actors often have more range, as doing regional British and American accents is necessary for them.