Beyond acting
One of your other favourite activities seems to be singing and dancing, and you actually danced and sung in a video for The New Pornographers’ “The Laws Have Changed” – and you’re doing a pretty good job, too. You’ve also hosted A Capella Inventions, and participated on Tiki Bar TV. Is your dancing and singing side something we’re going to see more of in the future?
I love singing and dancing, though I’m considerably better at one than the other (I’ll let you guess which). I can’t imagine what venue you could see me doing more of that though; other than YouTube of course. A Bar Mitzvah maybe? Anyone?
By the way, while we’re on the subject of singing and dancing… Supanova, Sydney, Tainted Love, Nicholas Brendon, YouTube. Do you want to tell the story yourself or shall I send our dear and loving readers to the YouTube video? See Sonic go wild in the crowd!
Haha, I’m not sure if that’s a threat or a compliment. I actually dared him to join me, and he did. Poor guy. I think I’ll let the video speak for itself.
We already know you and a few friends are working on a sort of social networking site for students, with the ambitious goal of bringing back the humanity into social networking. In what way is your project going to be different from other social networking sites? What is the element that will bring back the humanity?
My goal is to help foster a true sense of community among young people and inspire critical thought and action. I think technology is so incredible and hugely important in the progress of science, communication, and innovation, but the process by which we relate to it often lacks vision and humanity. So our project is still in the process of development, but I believe the element that will bring back the humanity will involve overcoming fear and prejudices. I think fear is what separates us and breeds dependency on material things, and our prejudice erodes our ability to experience ourselves authentically, so confronting those issues is an essential element.
You also mentioned that through this new website, students would be able to get discounts when buying certain items. How would that work? What kind of companies and products are involved?
I don’t want to say too much, because like I said we’re still working on it, but a large part of building a successful community is people understanding value exchange. So the products and companies themselves aren’t necessarily as relevant as, say, the way people measure and relate with them.
On a related note, how’s your blog doing? In your latest post, you mentioned a redesign – can you give any hints?
Very soon!!!
Acting beyond BSG
Die-hard fans of either Nicki Clyne or the television series Dead Like Me will know that you played a minor role in episode 6 of season 2 of Dead Like Me, “In Escrow“. What was it like on the set of Dead Like Me?
Dead Like Me was a lot of fun. I love the humor on that show. I tried to leave the barbed wire neck tattoo on for as long as possible to freak out my friends, but avoiding washing your neck in the shower is next to impossible.
Did you already know the series before you signed up for the part? Do you like the series? Were the atmosphere and the people very different from those of BSG?
I actually hadn’t seen it before, but I watched it after and thought it was great. It’s a shame it was cancelled. The set itself was run like clockwork, I was in and out in a matter of hours. That rarely happened on BSG.
There’s also a new Dead Like Me direct-to-DVD film coming out early next year [interview was conducted in 2008], and there’s been hints that if sales are decent enough, the series might be brought back for a 3rd run. If they asked you to take on a more recurring role (but not as that lousy babysitter) on a possible Dead Like Me revival, would you do it? In fact, would you like to be a regular in another TV series at all? Comedy perhaps?
Yes, yes, and yes!
How was it to host that episode of Hypaspace? [sadly, no longer available online] It really looked like you were having a lot of fun – although I must say I’m not exactly sure what made me laugh more; you, or some of the people in the actual items…
You know, that experience was actually very fun for me because, as a child of the 80’s and 90’s, I grew up watching MTV. I used to dream of being an MTV VJ, I just thought they were the coolest! So I figured this was a good opportunity to test my skills, and I think I did alright. I actually got to edit all my dialogue and improvise a lot – the crew was very tolerant of my antics. But in the end, I learned that staring at a teleprompter for hours on end and acting really excited is a tough job, I don’t know if I’d want to do it every day.
That’s… interesting…
I’m definately curious as to how OS News secured this interview, but it kind of makes sense. I’m a BSG fan and so is my Writing professor strangely enough. It is kind of surreal that the big three Sci Fi shows are all gone, but maybe the TV movie format makes more sense.
I wanted to tell you a story about private jets, expensive cars, and Cuban cigars on a tropical island, but I figured the truth would get out one way or the other.
I… Emailed her.
Nicki Clyne, beauty and talent. A good interview too, looking forward to hearing more about the social networking site for students. Keep up the great work Nicki
Honestly, the interview is a little underwhelming. That said…
SPOILERS
My take: 😉 Cally’s story is the only aspect of BSG that has made ANY. SENSE. AT. ALL. in the fourth season: the choice of the “hidden four” demonstrated conclusively that the show’s creators had completely lost their way and would chase any plot twist, no matter how ridiculous. Never mind Baltar’s anti-success in everything he does. (Does he even remember that he started the series as a scientist?!?)
Nicky’s acting has made Cally’s part all the more compelling, and even though it was depressing to see the character’s untimely end, holy cow at least it made sense. I wonder if Tyrol will ever have his questions regarding the mysterious circumstances of her death answered.
Sad, but so true. The so called creative ‘geniuses’ behind this show really turned out to be unimaginative, uncreative, and just plain boring. There is so much missed potential they could have done with this show, instead it turned out to be a very un-imaginative West Wing in space. They spent about 100x more showing lame scenes of worthless political fighting, elections, cabinet meetings, etc.. than actually exploring anything beyond some idiot debates.
This will be the first TV series I have watched in some time where I will be glad it ended. What is truly sad is some idiots have given the green light for Ronald Moore to “re-image” the classic movie The Thing. Anyone want to take bets now on badly this will fail at the box office?
p.s. Any article that breaks away from this childish, idiotic flame infested fanboy OS wars is a blessing!
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“p.s. Any article that breaks away from this childish, idiotic flame infested fanboy OS wars is a blessing!”
…so what your saying is, Windows 7 is better or worse than BSG?
More importantly, is the Cylon source code publicly-available? And if so, under which license?
The number of unnecessary remakes is getting to be absurd. I can’t imagine Moore being able to improve on John Carpenter’s version. That’s almost as bad as the prospect of a remake of The Evil Dead, or the rumoured Darren Aaronofsky remake of Lone Wolf and Cub (as a western, of all things).
I’m dreading the day when someone comes with the brilliant idea of “re-imaging” A-team or Sledge Hammer.
Agh! You mustn’t say such things!
The only real consolation is that it guarantees that the Rifftrax guys will never run out of bad films to mock.
Russell Crowe IS Sledge Hammer
The A-Team is already slated for a remake. I will sandpaper my eyes in January, just enough that they may heal by Dcember, and hopefully avoid the whole sorry mess. Sheesh, I even heard BRUCE WILLIS is associated with it :-\
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/29/a_team_movie/
Oh god no. The end of days is truly upon us.
At least the people involved are a competent bunch and not Roland Emmerich or Uwe Boll.
in the re-imaged A-Team, people actually get killed and curse a lot.
I strongly disagree! Quality of episodes vary in season 4, that is true, but I wouldn’t blame writers for that. As far as story telling is concerned, I consider it being brilliant. Other thing is that directing sometimes sucks. Two last episodes were great – but the one that aired just before them – was poorly directed, and I didn’t enjoy it at all – even though it included some really dramatical elements of story.
“p.s. Any article that breaks away from this childish, idiotic flame infested fanboy OS wars is a blessing! ”
what? oh dear are you are in for a surprise. Now everyone will talk about how much BSG sucks and doesn’t make any sense.
great interview, great show — puts all the fluff on TV to shame.
Nicki was also a bit player in the first (or was it second?) episode of the second season of Dark Angel (“Bag ’em” – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0554561/ gives more info.) She played a transgenic (X6) who Max (Jessica Alba) named “Fix-it”. Oddly, there’s another link to Cally – Aaron Douglas (Chief Tyrol) was also in an episode of Dark Angel.. later in that season (“Exposure – http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0554570/ for more info.)
I also loved her in Tiki Bar TV. I remember when it was released and I almost fell off my seat 🙂 Almost as odd as when Alex Albrecht was in it. Lala is still “da bomb” though :-))
Is she writing her own OS? That would make it OS News.
No, it’s not OS News. It’s sort of like charity. You got to allow the geeks that come here the chance to pretend that they talk to women once in a while. Otherwise the only contact they will have with women is their obligatory softporn desktop wallpaper.
I think it was good for a change!! I haven’t seen interesting stuff in a while!.. go go Thom!
They never should have used Windows 95 on the frakin cylons. Then again, anyone who uses octagonal paper deserves what’s coming.
This is the last place I’d expect an interview with a Galactica actress! Very well done, and she’s such a down to earth girl (and looks a bit like a girl I once dated).
I liked the way she yearned, quietly, for Chief during the early episodes – she played that whole arc so well. Galactica is one of the few shows that has gotten stronger the further it’s gone. The finale should be great.
“Define “projects.” Does enlightenment count?
I felt quite geeky when my first thought after that answer had to to do with window managers…”
That was hilarious!
This was a nice diversion from the ordinary, but I can’t believe Thom forgot to ask Clyne the ultimate question – Mac or Windows?
Other than that one glaring omission, it was a fairly good interview. Many thanks to Clyne for taking the time for the interview.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: BSG is dying.
It is now official. Netcraft has confirmed: BSG is dying
You don’t need to be the Amazing Kreskin to predict BSG’s future. The hand writing is on the wall: BSG faces a bleak future. In fact there won’t be any future at all for BSG because BSG is dying. Things are looking very bad for BSG. As many of us are already aware, BSG continues to lose market share. Red ink flows like a river of blood.