Jevon Phillips of the Los Angeles Times recently spoke with actor Michael Hogan about his role as Col. Saul Tigh on the Sci-Fi Channel’s Battlestar Galactica.
Phillips seemed especially interested in Hogan’s response to the revelation that his character is a Cylon - a response Hogan was especially interested in sharing.
If possible, I know even less about Cylons than I know about Battlestar Galactica, but, because I have friends who are into it (one of whom even writes Battlestar Galactica fanfiction), I sometimes pay attention when I hear or see something about the show.
What caught my attention this time was how Hogan described approaching his character after finding out his character was a Cylon:
So I voiced my concerns about being a Cylon, and that’s what it was. It’s not really like all of a sudden Tigh clicks over and says, ‘Oh, I’m a Cylon.’ … Tigh’s been through so much with his alcoholism and his war wounds and having to kill Ellen, after the occupation and what he’d been through there — now they call it post-traumatic stress … so when he hears the music, it’s like he hears music often. He doesn’t really think about the music and then go, ‘Oh, I’m a Cylon.’ I treated it more as mental illness, almost like schizophrenia. Not just like, ‘Oh, I’m a Cylon. What do I do?’
So, now - despite having never watched a Battlestar Galactica episode - I’m suddenly very interested in knowing why being a Cylon is akin to having a mental illness. I’m assuming being a Cylon isn’t something one wants to be (especially given that, about the actors’ responses to being Cylons, Hogan told Phillips “We just sort of dealt with it in our own ways,” ha), but I’ve been wrong before.
Any Battlestar Galactica fans out there? Anyone who can shed some light?
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