Colin Cunningham shares a great Amanda Tapping story from the set of Stargate SG-1!
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generalfailure2077
She’s one of the reasons someone I know got a PhD in Physics from Cambridge. People talk about the Scully effect, I think there’s a few people out there who were subject to the Carter effect.
This story tracks with how I’ve pictured her in my head. Good to know I was right about that
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Jhaasinterviews [OP] 3 points · 13d ago
She seems exactly like the type of person you want playing Samantha Carter.
Stormtomcat 2 points · 11d ago
Also courageous, right?
IIRC, on the first day of shooting the producers wanted her in a tank top instead of a full uniform like all the other military personnel on base. She said no and was willing to walk.
Add in that so many of the very early episodes had a slant we now call unacceptable towards women... Like, Jolinar entered Carter through an unwanted kiss, something I don't think happened ever again. And there was that episode with a planet with a sort of Mongol steppen culture, and the chief's son tried to sell her as a concubine to another chief, so he could buy the chief's daughter he was in love with...