Stargate Universe: Louis Ferreira interview [Colonez]

Col. Young continues to be my favorite character on SGU. In all honesty, it started from moment one, in that I’ve always though Louis Ferreira had a sexy voice and a wonderful face, full of character. But it grew. It would have been so easy to make Young a one dimensional hero character with no faults, or no faults that are seen or dealt with, but the writers didn’t go there. Instead, we get this rich, layered character with flaws who keeps trying. I feel very lucky to be part of a fandom when shows like this are on the table. Anyhoo, enough from me, and more snips from the ‘Colonez’ interview:

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“It’s an interesting character for me because what we’re dealing with is someone who sort of grew up a certain way and is very militant in his understanding of everything in so far as he knows it. He’s almost in my opinion, for lack of a better term, has been programmed. So what’s happening now, without giving too many things away, is that the cracks or the moralities, the reality of the situation because really at the end of the day all of a sudden you start looking in the mirror and all the things that applied on Earth in life don’t exactly apply in this setting.”

“Things start getting challenged, things start getting questioned. Amidst that you start looking deeper into yourself and amidst that you start having to deal with yourself and I love characters that allow within the character as much range as possible. It was very set up that initially Young would come off as very militant, very straight so that the journey when it begins and it’s not just for Young I think it’s for a lot of people. It gives me a great place to go and great places to explore.”

“So I’m really excited about the sort of the boundaries, the wall, the limits of all being pushed in different directions because I think it’s not like “hey look we’re on a space ship doing sci fi isn’t it cool, there’s an alien and we’ve got them again this week and now we’re happy again!” That’s not the show. The show definitely, from the minute it started, was about people who would have nothing but the suitcase or whatever they came through the Stargate with initially.”