{"id":1219,"date":"2008-03-20T20:38:05","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/?p=1219"},"modified":"2010-03-04T14:33:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:33:37","slug":"claudia-black-on-filming-and-motherhood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/claudia-black-on-filming-and-motherhood\/","title":{"rendered":"Claudia Black on Filming and Motherhood"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"ClaudiaClaudia Black was recently interviewed by Steve Eramo for TV Zone Magazine, Issue 226<\/strong> (available for purchase here<\/a>). Among many things, she speaks about her experiences filming Stargate SG-1’s<\/em> Season 10 as a new mom, and filming the movies while pregnant with her second son. From the interview,<\/p>\n

“On the personal side, I thought I could do what Amanda Tapping had done the prior season and have a baby,” she says. “Nurse the baby on set, which production was willing to accommodate (amazingly rare in the workplace) and do a decent job. I was wrong and I failed. While everyone else was celebrating 200 episodes — a milestone in Science Fiction television — I was experiencing in stark contrast, a personal and professional low. We had relocated from Australia to Vancouver with a newborn who was ill and no family or friends around to help. My hours were hell, the workload more than sizeable, and when my poor husband got pneumonia and I got postnatal hyperthyroidism, our family and household crashed.<\/p>\n

“When I finally admitted defeat — personal, first, then professional — and went to Rob Cooper,” Stargate SG-1’s <\/em>executive producer, “to ask for help, there was little he could do. I was used to the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants production that was Farscape<\/em>, where the scripts were delivered on the day if you were lucky and production got used to being very flexible. These guys in Vancouver, however, are extremely organized; the scripts had been written well in advance and were wall-to-wall Va-la-la! So Rob asked me if I could hold off having a ‘breakdown’ until the upcoming hiatus, and I obliged to the best of my ability.”<\/p>\n

Regarding filming the movies, she said, “Vala was low-ish maintenance in Continuum<\/em>,”… “I was on strict doctor’s orders to work limited hours with Continuum<\/em> due to a miscarriage scare during the first movie, so that put a lot of pressure on production to get me out every day on time… On both movies I struggled monumentally with shocking morning sickness. If anyone mentioned food I started to cry, and then dug my knuckles into my palms until they were close to drawing blood… Cliff [Simon] was incredibly sweet and careful about what he consumed around me, but one day I caught a whiff of something and gagged through my lines ’til I heard Martin Wood yell, ‘Cut!’ and then raced to a trashcan just next to set. I hope Cliff didn’t take it personally.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

To read more of this interesting interview, purchase Issue 226 of TV Zone!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Claudia Black was recently interviewed by Steve Eramo for TV Zone Magazine, Issue 226 (available for purchase here). Among many things, she speaks about her experiences filming Stargate SG-1’s Season 10 as a new mom, and filming the movies while pregnant with her second son. From the interview, “On the personal side, I thought I … Continue reading “Claudia Black on Filming and Motherhood”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-1219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","tag-claudia-black"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1219"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7398,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219\/revisions\/7398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stargate-sg1-solutions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}