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Almost two years ago, I got to go to the set of White Noise 2 in Vancouver. It was a blast hanging out with Katee Sackhoff, the female lead to Nathan Fillion. All those BSG Season Three spoilers were awesome back then. Now, after a theatrical run in Europe, White Noise 2 makes its American debut on DVD this month.

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CraveOnline: How did this project come about for you?

Katee Sackhoff: My agent had called me and told me that this script had landed on his desk, and said that one was White Noise II and it was a leading character. I had been shooting The Last Sentinel though, so I was in Ojai in the middle of the desert, not thinking and shooting people with guns and really tired and he said, "Well, your can’t audition for it because there isn’t enough time. So, we are going to send the script to you and can you meet with the director tomorrow morning at 11 o’clock." And I’m like, "We’re doing a night shoot until 9 o’clock tomorrow morning, so, um, O.K." So, I’m reading the script in the car as I’m driving stick to go meet Patrick [Lussier] and I hadn’t slept, so I think I was so tired that I wasn’t nervous at all, because I was so tired. I just walked in and was like, "Yeah, O.K. cool. Alright. Totally understand the character" which I did and I don’t know why. And they offered it to me the next day. It was pretty awesome. I was very excited about it.

CraveOnline: Who is your character?

Katee Sackhoff: My character is Sherry Clark. She’s a kind of a little eccentric nurse who ends up being in the emergency room when Nathan’s character is brought in, in the beginning of the film. They kind of become friends in a sense because they are both going through the same grieving process in their lives. So she kind of latches on to him to help him through the process because it’s something she has gone through a couple years before, so she thinks that she is inevitably helping him through the process a little better than he could do it himself. So, she’s kind of always there. There is that fine line and I think she walks it on the line, every single time. Occasionally, she might go a little bit over, but then pull herself back. So she’s really fun. She’s a lot different than Starbuck. I finally get to play the damsel in distress. I called my agent up after one scene and went, “I just screamed and cried and actually got beat up and it was great and I didn’t fight back!” And I was like, “At the same time I really just wanted to give him a roundhouse to the head!” So the character is really fun. It’s different. She changes her hair color like every day. Every week. So it’s pretty fun.

CraveOnline: What are you shooting tonight?

Katee Sackhoff: Tonight is one of those walking the line scenes where she decides to show up on his front door step after they have met once and is like, "Hey! Wanna get drunk? Like, I know your wife just died, but come on!"

CraveOnline: Sort of like a Florence Nightengale-type stalker?

Katee Sackhoff: Yeah, but she does have a cute way of doing it. Everything she does is really pathetic because it’s from her heart and she really does care about people and she wants to help everybody. She just puts herself out on that limb a little too far sometimes. She might fall off, but tonight is that scene. She’s really letting Abe know he’s really got no secrets right now from her. That she kind of knows everything. This is where the walls start to come down I think.