Crave Online: How does it feel to do the last round of interviews for Battlestar?
Michael Trucco: It's great. I love this stuff. I really do. I'm like a kid in a candy store. It's the greatest job in the world. I got to a level where I got to be an actor and get paid for it and to do this stuff. These are all the things I used to look at and go, "Man, one day, I hope I get to promote a show and be part of something like this." When that happened, I was on the other side of what that was like when I was doing extra work and stuck in some cold, concrete room at 10:30 in the morning on pier 28 in San Francisco on some bad movie of the week. I was just trying to get a SAG card. I remember thinking, "I'm not going to do this forever. I'm going to get there. I' m going to move my way up." Flash forward to years later and you find yourself in something like this and somebody goes, "Hey man, you having a good time?" It's like yeah, I am. I really am. This is a great job.
Crave Online: Is Comic Con more direct feedback with the fans?
Michael Trucco: Very much. I was just discussing that. This is the best demonstration of the union between the fan and the show. This is the best example of that, right there, in a room with 6,000 or so fans. To feel that energy, when Kevin Smith says, "We're going to turn over the floor to questions so this is it. Say goodbye." And that room stood up, we're like, "Wow." That instant appreciation was 100% mutual because while yeah, that's the kind of appreciation for the show, it was also us standing up going, "You know what? We make the show for them. We have a show because we have fans that watch it. If nobody did, then what the hell would be the point?" So a convention like this puts you right in the mix. You're right there. You're with the people that are passionate about your show and that's really exciting, going to meet them. That's why I'm looking forward to checking things out on the floor and be part of it. The only part of this convention I've seen is hallways and security details. I feel like diplomats.
Crave Online: What would you like to see if you could just roam?
Michael Trucco: I like just going out and checking out all the different booths. There's all these toy manufacturers. There was a pirate ship here last year. All kinds of stuff. I want to go see that stuff.
Crave Online: Since you're having so much fun, how hard is it to accept the show has to end for artistic reasons?
Michael Trucco: I think I'd rather it end for artistic reasons than for financial or political reasons, so my hat's off to Ron and David and everybody that made that decision, that they decided their story was told, ending the show on their terms and not a network's terms or a studio's terms or a bean counter's terms or somebody that decides we've run it's course. It's bittersweet because dude, give us two more seasons. There's still some story to tell.
Crave Online: Wouldn't it be the opposite? The studios would say, "Please keep it going."
Michael Trucco: You know, I think maybe there is a bit of that. This stuff's so above my pay grade, I have no idea. I'm just speculating but I think that now, especially this last season, the viewership went up which is rare. Usually these things start to decline. Apparently, word is we increased our viewership but again don't quote me. I don't follow this stuff but this is what I hear. Look, Ron knew. He was like, "This is my story and it will end after this many episodes." Who am I to argue? I'm just happy to be here.
Crave Online: What are you excited about in the last episodes?
Michael Trucco: There's so much great stuff in between, it's just I can't wait to see the finale. There are so many great episodes in between but just reading the script of the finale was poetry. It really is. Ron wrote this script that apparently he took, I'm sure he told this story a couple times. He sat down, wrote our finale, took it to the writer's room which they always have a pow wow over it. They all read it and went, "Shoot it. Done. It's great." So that's going to be a powerful piece of television.
Crave Online: And you haven't seen it?
Michael Trucco: No, we just finished shooting it. I've seen bits of pieces. There were three units running at one point and it's big. It's a movie. It's a feature film of a finale. It can stand alone. It is one giant epic piece of great writing. I'm sure the performances across the board are going to be. Michael Rymer directed it, but before you get there, there's a lot of cool stuff in between. There's some stuff that I couldn’t even begin to tell you because there's going to be some shocking revelations. Let's just put it that way.
