Ballerina Terminator: Summer Glau
I am unabashed fan of slight, pale-skinned sylphs who look as fragile as butterflies punching bad guys through brick walls. So I love the diminuitive ballerina turned sci-fi actor Summer Glau, perhaps best known as the brainwashed, psychic bad-ass in Joss Whedon's Serenity, but now picking up another role as a spritely ass-kicker: Cameron, the protective T-800 in the new Terminator spin-off series The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
"I didn't think I had a chance at being cast in this role," Glau said in an interview. "I've seen [Terminator 3 star] Kristanna Loken in person, and she's so statuesque and she has that icy beauty, and I thought, 'I don't even want to go on this audition. I'm just going to be embarrassed. I'm going to get in the room, and I'm going to be embarrassed. But she infiltrates. And that's what terminators are going to be now. They infiltrate. They hide. They're not, 'What is that superhuman person?' That's what we're going to do with this series. And, I think, every week people are going to be watching the show going, 'OK, which one is it?'"
I like this development, since I never quite understood why Skynet bothered making the Terminators look human to begin with if they all looked like Arnold Schwarzenegger in various stages of decay. I'm not really sure if I'm excited about this show or not — it seems to be taking pretty huge liberties with the established movie timeline — but Summer Glau's worth being slightly optimistic about. She's got spunk, that kid.
Chronicles' Glau Humanizes Terminator [SCI FI Wire]
This is the most awesome thing I have heard all week. I just hope she can get some of her Firefly/Serenity co-stars in for bit parts, or maybe even some permanent ones (seems Nathan Fillian isn't busy at the moment since Fox killed Drive).
Now all I have to do is make sure I'm signed up for whatever channel this show is going to be on...
Okay, just did a google news search on this show, and found out it'll be on Fox. This is good since it means I'll be able to watch it, but it also makes me afraid.
Fox has a nasty tendency to kill off really cool shows without giving them a real chance while dragging crappy sitcoms out for years when they were just a one-hit wonder.
Firefly was one of those shows that met its untimely end on Fox. Incidentally it also starred Summer Glau...
I doubt Fox is going to be willing to kill off a show as easily if it's based upon one of the most successful sci-fi movie franchises ever. And they barely promoted Firefly: on the other hand, they are promoting the shit out of this.