Since the “Battlestar Galactica” cast is scattering to the winds, we decided to talk to one of the most controversial figures of this past season, Tory Foster the Cylon, aka Rekha Sharma. We did a quick, or not so quick, Q&A about the season and the show a few weeks ago.
RekhaheadshotI watched video from the New York Comic-Con, Was that your first experience with the kind of fervor that surrounds the show?
Yes.
And what was your reaction to that?
It was pretty mind-boggling. I had done one convention before that, which was in London. It was to a really small group of people and none of my stuff had really aired yet — the crowd just knew about the end of the third season — so people were pretty chill around me. They were like, ‘Wow, you’re cool.’ But this time I got so many strong reactions from people.
Strong good, strong bad … ?
A bit of both. … The convention I did in London was very small and intimate. I found in a way that the energy was really contagious. I felt that there was a lot of real positivity in the room. Everybody just loves the show and so it was really fun and exciting in that way. But then there’s the weirdness of people sort of freaking out over you and you’re like ‘Hey, I’m just a chick,’ you know?
I’ve done a bunch of TV and smaller roles in film. I do come from theater. I didn’t spend a lot of time there cause once I started in television I just kind of stayed there. I’m actually dying to do a play now — I’ll probably do one this year. I feel like what we do as actors prepares you for the work, but it doesn’t prepare you for having your mug on television and being in front of gazillions of people. … I never did a theater as big as the crowd we had at [the New York] Comic-Con. I never had an audience that big