#2400 - Katee Sackhoff

**Joe Rogan** (0:03)
The Joe Rogan Experience.

**Katee Sackhoff** (0:06)
Trained by day, Joe Rogan Podcast by night, all day.

**Joe Rogan** (0:12)
Especially in Hollywood, right, you always have a little bounce, with those guys standing there with the big...

**SPEAKER_3** (0:17)
You always need someone, like, wandering around in front of you, especially when you get to a certain age, or like, can we just put Vaseline on the camera?

**Joe Rogan** (0:25)
Oh, like a filter?

**SPEAKER_3** (0:27)
Yeah, exactly.

**Joe Rogan** (0:28)
Yeah, my wife actually likes it when her lens on her camera phone is, like, blurry.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:32)
A little dirty?

**Joe Rogan** (0:33)
She's like, gives you, like, a little filter.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:35)
Yeah, I'm sure they offer that filter. Slightly dirty lens.

**Joe Rogan** (0:39)
Yeah, smudgy lens. So, really nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you. You were a part of, I think, the most underappreciated sci-fi show ever.

**SPEAKER_3** (0:50)
I think at the time, absolutely.

**Joe Rogan** (0:51)
I mean, even now, I don't think people talk about it enough. It was a fucking great show. And I was so skeptical about Battlestar Galactica, because when I was a kid, I watched the original series. And then there was a new one coming out. And I was like, oh, come on. And then somebody told me, I forget, one of my friends, one of my comedian friends, like, dude, you got to watch the show. It's fucking great. Like, it's not what you expect. Like, you'd think it would be like the old Battlestar Galactica, which is kind of sort of corny a little bit, but it was a really fucking good show.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:19)
When did you watch it? When it was on or after?

**Joe Rogan** (1:22)
No, when it was on.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:22)
OK, so originally. Yeah, it was, god, like, when I first got the script, it was like 2001 And I was a 21-year-old kid. And at that point, I'd been playing stereotypical blonde roles. I was in a movie where you were like, please die. I was that girl. And so I knew that if I could change my career, I needed to change it. And I saw this script.

**Joe Rogan** (1:49)
That's hilarious that you're thinking I need to change my career at 21

**SPEAKER_3** (1:51)
At 21

**Joe Rogan** (1:52)
That's how crazy the hourglass is in Hollywood.

**SPEAKER_3** (1:55)
I was like, this is, I got seven years left.

**SPEAKER_4** (1:57)
Right, so crazy.

**Joe Rogan** (1:59)
That's your fucking sketchy job.

**SPEAKER_3** (2:02)
And so I was like, what am I going to do, right? And I saw this script and Ron Moore had put an entry page on the front of the miniseries. It was like a Bible that he called it. And it was him saying what he wanted to create and what he wanted it to look like and what his intention was behind the show. And that one page was so moving that it could have been, I didn't even matter what it was on the inside. I was like, if this guy is in charge, it's going to be amazing. And as soon as I got introduced to Starbuck reading that script, I was like, this is it. Like, this is the character that, if I can book this character, it will change the way that people see me in this business. And granted, I was 21 People were not talking about me. I'd been working for five years at that point, and pretty steadily. I had a good career going. But I was not someone that people called home about yet.
I was on the list. But that show changed everything.

**Joe Rogan** (3:07)
Well, it was also a risky thing, because you were playing a role that was played by a man. So that was a little thing where there's like a little bit of, ah, there's a girl playing Starbuck now.

**SPEAKER_3** (3:21)
Yeah, I know. It was really strange. So I was like, almost had booked the part, or maybe I'd booked the part I don't quite remember. And I called my dad, who's a huge science fiction fan, and raised me on like sci-fi. And I was like, I booked this job. And he was like, that's amazing. What is it? And I said, Battlestar Galactica. And he went, oh my god, that's great. I watched it when I was younger. And he was like, Hugh, you're playing. And I said, Starbuck. He was like, oh, fuck.
You need to go watch this. And I was like, okay, all right. So I like tromped on down to Blockbuster Video, and I rent the VHS, maybe? The DVDs, I don't remember what it was. And I'm sitting on the couch with a girlfriend, and we like opened a bottle of wine, and we're like watching this to like be like, okay, what's my dad talking about? And at some point, she looked at me, and they were like talking about Starbuck. And I was like, that's so weird. We must have missed her. Where is she?