Interview with Jamie Bamber (Apollo)
BSG News has posted a link to an interview that Jamie Bamber gave at Collectormania 7 in the UK:
Gateworld has posted an interview from Collectormania 7 where one of their reporters sat down with Bamber and asked him his favorite scenes from S1, his feelings about his fellow actors and where Apollo stands in the days ahead. Very mildly spoilerish.
I liked this question/answer:
Question: Apollo seems to draw inspiration from Adama and from President Roslin, from their leadership; and yet he's always ready to challenge their authority. Do you see him as a natural leader or as someone who wants to fall in line but who can't find someone to line up behind?
Answer: I think he's his own man. I think he's a natural leader, but I don't think he's realised that yet. We are exploring it.
At the end of the first season he's on his own again. I mean, he's always been an isolated figure in the first place because he doesn't really belong on the Galactica. He doesn't even intend to be there but then the end of the world sort of catches him on the hop and that's where he has to make a start. He cuts a role out for himself as the "CAG," something he perhaps wasn't intending to do.
And I think he comes into his own gradually. He surprises himself. But then again, at the end of the first season he disobeys an order, so that's basically burned all his bridges that he had with the crew of the Galactica.
So he's a lone thinker in many respects, but I think more and more you'll see him start to come out with true leadership qualities.
I always forget that he was sort of marooned on the Galactica as the result of the Cylon attack. He probably had a favorable career going and now he is stuck with a run down ship of "outcasts" trying to carve his own niche under his father's shadow. I have to remember that Apollo is a much more complicated character than I give him credit for.
