[IMG:L]Katee Sackhoff cleans up nice.
Sure, the Battlestar Galactica babe’s best known for playing tough girls and tomboys like Lt. Kara “Starbuck” Thrace and she’s about to become even more famous when viewers see her bone-breaking turn as Sarah Corbis, the part-cybernetic nemesis of NBC’s Bionic Woman this fall. But the girl knows how to get glam, as she proved in the very feminine black summer dress she wore to Entertainment Weekly and SciFi’s blowout bash at San Diego’s Comic-Con – she looked so hot even her co-stars, Cylon sex bombs Tricia Helfer and Lucy Lawless, couldn’t keep their hands off her.
Unashamed to court a little controversy – she strolled hand-in-hand through the party with octogenarian Stan Lee, the father of Marvel Comics, insisting Smilin; Stan was her new boyfriend, Katee kicked back for a cocktail with Hollywood.com.
HW: I’ve seen the pilot for Bionic Woman. You sort of walk away with it. You’re a badass in it!
Katee Sackoff: A hero is only as strong as it’s villain. I think that a show like Bionic Woman needs to be broken up by having a strong villain. This nemesis was written perfectly. She’s the complete opposite of Michelle [Ryan], of Jamie Summers, but at the same time they’re very similar. And Jamie Summers will go through a lot of the same things that Sarah Corbis has gone through that have, in a sense, made her evil. So I think that in a weird, f’d-up way, Sarah Corbis is trying to train Jamie Summers.
HW: That’s how it came off – that she’s trying to impart some wisdom, if not so gently.
KS: Right. She’s trying to push her to, I think, not be a robot – which is ironic because Sarah is cutting away all the parts of her that are human because she doesn’t want to be weak. She’s trying to protect Jamie.
HW: Are you going to be shooting Bionic Woman in Vancouver, the same as Galactica?
KS: Yes. My first day is Tuesday right after I work on Battlestar.
HW: Well, at least it’s in the neighborhood. How often are you going to be on the show?
KS: Five episodes in the first 13 and then if we get picked up for the back nine two more, and then after that I have a series contract.
HW: Still, Canada’s gain is L.A.’s loss – we need to see you in Southern California more often.
KS: I need to be in L.A. more. Talk to someone, because my boyfriend agrees too.
[IMG:R]HW: Let’s talk about what I just witnessed when you, Tricia Helfer and Lucy Lawless walked into this party. Whenever I see the girls from Battlestar together you’re always all over each other, as if the fanboys aren’t already going crazy over you enough.
KS: I know. Wet dreams of Tricia and I making out.
HW: Seriously. Do you guys do that on purpose?
KS: [Laughs] No. We love each other very much and it’s been five years of my life. I’ve been friends with Tricia for five years and I just love her to death. She and I, we kind of seem to do everything together and lead parallel lives at this point. We both bought Harleys together so we can ride. She’s such a friend of mine and what’s funny is that we never work together and so when we do see each other, especially at work, we get so excited that we hug a lot. It never goes beyond that. I mean, occasionally Lucy Lawless grabs your ass, but other than that – nothing.
HW: Well, she’s from down under.
KS: Yeah, they’re a lot more open in Australia [Laughs].
HW: Tell me more about becoming Harley girls. That’s sounds cool.
KS: Yeah. Tricia bought a Soft-Tail and I am in the process of buying a Sporster. We’re very excited. Her husband and my boyfriend both ride.
HW: What hooked you guys into the idea of doing it at the same time?
KS: I think it’s that Tricia‘s husband, John, rides and he’s been riding now for about three years and my boyfriend has been riding since he was four, but it’s been something that I’ve wanted to do forever. I’ve made this career, I think, of playing these tough girls and if I want to keep up with all these other girls that do their own stunts and ride their own motorcycles it’s something that I have to be able to do. So it started out like that and then when I started dating Scott a year and a half ago it became more of a reality, me wanting to do it. So she got hers about a month ago and mine will be in my garage in about two weeks.
HW: I can’t wait to see the pictures of you guys out on the open road.
KS: We’re funny with that, me and Tricia on our Harleys going to Santa Barbara and a car pulls up next to us to see Tricia and I on our Harleys.
HW: And all over the Internet the next day.
KS: Right, with our tight jeans and our stilettos on. We’re like, “How does my lipstick look? Thanks.”
HW: Speaking of lipstick, it’s great to see you all girled-out at a party like this after so many tough chick parts.
KS: You know what’s really sad, though? I have Battlestar bruises on my leg that I’ve tried to cover up. So I’m girly, but still like Starbuck. It’s not cool. It’s really not cool [Laughs].
[IMG:L]HW: I saw the envy in your face when Jamie Bamber told me a few weeks back that he got to fly with the Blue Angels. Should we work on getting you up in a fighter jet?
KS: I would love it. Make it happen. I would either pee in my pants or throw up. What’s funny is that I’m scared of heights and flying. So it would be two birds with one stone there. Get them out of the way, right? Throw some bees in there and we’re good to go.
