A snippet from a Don Davis interview

A friend of mine (Joshua J. Slone in the comments here at System 13) sent me a snippet from an interview with Don Davis, the fellow who plays General Hammdon on Stargate SG-1. Here’s the snippet:

GW: Don, are you a fan of science fiction?

DD: I am now. I wasn’t always. I never really liked science fiction in film and television because when I was your age it was all cardboard and very crude, and it wasn’t realistic. And I could read someone like Asimov and envision all of these wonderful things. Or Wells, or whoever, and then I would see it on TV or in a film and — no. In fact, my son, when he was about four years old, I guess — or five years old — “Star Wars” came out. And he had to see “Star Wars.” He really had to make me lots of promises in order for me to get me to take him to it. And I came out of that movie a Star Wars nut.

GW: Really?!

DD: Oh, yeah! Then with the Star Trek, — not the original Star Trek. Again, it was silly — the crudity of the thing. Even though the actors, a lot of them now, are friends of mine. But I don’t like crudity. I’m a painter and a sculptor. I spent twenty years teaching people how to be artists and craftsmen. And then to see something, especially on film, that looks like a retarded two-year old created it in their back yard, is not entertaining to me.

The rest of the interview is here.
I never would have pegged him as a painter / sculptor.

Note: Removed the image from the snippet. I’d copied and pasted it from gateworld.net, and had accidentally been stealing their bandwidth. I doubt I’d put ‘em out of business or anything, but it’s the principle. Technorati Tags: stargate_sg1, stargate-sg1, science_fiction