Ronald D. Moore’s small display reboot of Glen A. Larson’s 1978 collection “Battlestar Galactica” was much more profitable than its forebear. The unique “Battlestar Galactica” lasted for a single 24-episode season, nevertheless it wasn’t renewed. It remained on the air due to reruns, nonetheless, and retained a specific amount of cultural cache all through the Nineties.
Within the early 2000s, Moore, recent off of gigs writing for ultra-successful “Star Trek” spin-off series, restarted “Battlestar Galactica” with an all-new solid and an all-new timeline. The brand new collection started with a crackerjack three-hour miniseries and led into a fancy, expansive present that audiences cherished. The brand new “Battlestar Galactica” outstripped the 1978 collection by a substantial margin, lasting for 76 episodes over the course of 4 seasons and spawning two particular TV films, together with a pair of spin-off reveals.
In 1978, the evil antagonist robots of the franchise, the Cylons, have been chrome-plated, toaster-looking troopers that spoke in a robotic monotone. Therefore, one of many wrinkles added to Moore’s reboot was that the Cylons had superior sufficient to construct robotic fashions that appeared and behaved like people. Certainly, one of many most important characters launched within the present was Quantity Six, a Cylon agent that sexually tempted a human named Giaus Baltar (James Callis) into betraying his type and, in flip, giving the Cylons the flexibility to extra successfully wipe them out. Number Six was played by actor Tricia Helfer, and he or she was a fabulous sci-fi villain. Notably, her character sported a hanging blonde hairdo.
Helfer bleached her hair for the position, though she would’ve most popular a wig. Throughout an look on the “Sackhoff Show” podcast (hosted by her “Battlestar Galactica” co-star Katee Sackhoff), Helfer as soon as admitted that she needed to bleach her hair a lot it began to fall out from all of the abuse.
Tricia Helfer bleached her hair so typically for Battlestar Galactica that it started to fall out
Sackoff and Helfer each bear in mind the hair drama on the set of “Battlestar Galactica” fairly properly. Helfer, as one can see within the above images, wasn’t simply blonde; she had hair that was virtually white. Helfer reminded Sackhoff that she wanted to endure a full bleaching course of each 10 days throughout a capturing season, utilizing a needle-nose applicator. Her scalp should have burned regularly. It was a horrid headache. As Helfer described it:
“They dyed it for the miniseries. After which I dyed in again in between to do a unique position between seasons. Then I dyed it again for the primary season. I stated after we got here again for the primary season, ‘Might be use a wig?’ They stated, ‘Completely not.’ Each 10 days. My hair is of course fairly darkish, so it might present. After which between [the] first season and second season, I dyed it darkish to do a film with Billy Zane. And I went again, and once more I requested, and so they stated ‘No’ and insisted on dying it. And it was simply straw at that time.”
The movie in query was the 2006 medical thriller “Reminiscence,” which additionally starred Dennis Hopper and Ann-Margaret. In that movie, Helfer’s hair is darkish brown. Sadly, all of the back-and-forth coloring took its toll. Her hair visibly thinned. Helfer stays unclear as to why the producers of the present would not let her put on a wig. Maybe somebody merely thought bleached hair appeared higher for an android character like Quantity Six.
Tricia Helfer’s hair simply form of fell out one morning
Within the above photograph, Helfer is carrying a wig, nevertheless it was a very long time coming. Evidently within the second season of “Battlestar Galactica,” her hair could not take it anymore, and it simply all fell out one morning, with out discover. As Helfer recalled:
“[I]t simply stored falling out. For those who have a look at the primary episodes [compared] to the primary half of season 2, you possibly can see it getting shorter and thinner and shorter and thinner. You possibly can see by means of it to my neck. After which simply at some point, after the dye job software, the subsequent morning … I went to set, and Gerald the hairstylist push[ed] a brush by means of my hair, and it simply … half of it fell off. And so they needed to in a single day a wig.”
“Gerald” refers to Gerald Gibbons, who was credited on 9 episodes of the collection. Sackoff interjected at this level within the interview to level out {that a} high-quality wig, acceptable for TV lighting, ran at a value of as much as $10,000. Sackoff’s personal wigs that she wore while playing Bo-Katan Kryze on “The Mandalorian” value about that a lot. It is starting to develop into clear why the “Battlestar Galactica” producers did not wish to purchase one for Helfer. Helfer additionally identified that when her android character needed to slip right into a slime-filled resurrection chamber, the slime would seep into the wig and rip the lace at its base, which required the acquisition of a brand new wig.
Nonetheless, Helfer did not should scald her scalp any longer.
