The cast of
Caprica, the
Battlestar Galactica spin-off prequel, keeps getting better and better. We previously announced that
Paula Malcomson (
Deadwood) and Esai Morales (
Jericho) had joined the cast, and now
Polly Walker (
Cane,
Rome) and veteran film actor Eric Stoltz have also signed on. Walker will play Sister Clarice Willow, a duplicitous headmistress of a private religious school, while Stoltz will play computer engineer Daniel Graystone, the husband of Malcomson's character and the man who helps create the first Cylon.
Before
Caprica launches as a TV-movie in 2009,
Battlestar Galactica will wrap up its fourth and final season. Now that shooting on the final episodes of
BSG is nearly completed,
TV Guide has announced that
Katee Sackhoff will be scrubbing in on
Nip/Tuck for at least four episodes.
Anyone who watches
Nip/Tuck knows that the female characters on the series tend to be a bit mentally unstable. This should be perfect for Sackhoff, who is used to playing a complicated, slightly unhinged woman on
BSG. Her character on the FX drama, Theodora "Teddy" Lowe, will be a new doctor who challenges Sean (
Dylan Walsh) at McNamara/Troy during the show's sixth season. I have a feeling that "challenging" him may include sleeping with him and/or going crazy and stalking him, as many of Sean's female companions have been known to do.
If the gloriously over-the-top world of
Nip/Tuck doesn't interest you, you'll still be able to get plenty of sci-fi drama on
Caprica. The TV-movie will peek into the history of the
BSG universe and show how the first humanoid Cylon was created. If the movie is a success, the Sci Fi Channel will likely pick up
Caprica as an ongoing series.
Whether or not you think
Caprica sounds like a good idea, you have to admit that
BSG mastermind Ronald D. Moore knows how to cast a series. This TV-movie is sounding more prestigious with every new casting announcement. Though I hate to see
Battlestar Galactica come to an end, at least we'll have
Caprica to look forward to.
What casting news are you most excited about?
- Don Williams, BuddyTV Staff Writer
Source: TV Guide
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