I’m already in. Robert Carlyle is a serious actor and nothing speaks more highly of a television project then when fellas that don’t have to do TV want in. Robert recently spoke to Multichannel News and discussed how he was approached to do the series and what he expects viewers reactions will be.
Possible spoilers here, so beware.
“I play a guy called Dr. Nicholas Rush,” Carlyle said with his familiar, crisp Scottish accent. “A scientist. A driven kind of man. You’re never sure what motives this guy has. Never.
“At the beginning of the show, Rush has transported a team through a stargate to what they believe is another world. In fact, when they get there, they realize they’re actually on another ship, a space ship, a massive spaceship. Which has been floating through the universe for hundreds of thousands of years, launched by the Ancients long ago,” he said, using Stargate terminology adeptly. “Unmanned, picking up information, gathering data.
“So once they get there — and they’re relieved to get there because they have a very tricky situation to get there — Rush then tells them: ‘You can’t go back. You can never go home.’
“Then things start to get really, really tense. A battle for leadership takes place on the ship. We have three deaths in the first three hours. A suicide in episode five, I think.
“This is a hearty band,” he continued. “They’re literally billions of light years away, on the very far side of the universe. And the thought of that is quite terrifying. So it has to be character driven. This piece will stand and fall on the characters, for sure.”
“The producers, particularly Brad Wright and Robert Cooper, these guys are the main reason why I’m here,” Carlyle said.
“They explained it extremely well when they got in contact with me at first. The first thing I said was: ‘Why do you want me in it?’ The way they put it was very interesting: They said they wanted someone who can ‘make unattractive things seem quite attractive.’ I said: ‘I’m your man.’ ”
Thanks SciFiScoop
