Tiffany Lyndall-Knight is no stranger to science fiction, particularly as the memorable Hybrid from Ron Moore’s Battlestar Galactica reboot. But before she stepped into the Cylon bathtub she made two appearances in Stargate SG-1! We welcome her to discuss this and much more LIVE on Dial the Gate!

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Timecodes
0:00 – Splash Screen
00:25 – Opening Credits
00:52 – Welcome and Episode Outline
02:00 – Welcoming Tiffany and her start in acting
04:46 – Theatre and film/TV work
06:03 – Tiffany discusses her role models
10:00 – A challenging role: An emotional theatre piece
14:27 – SG1: “Touchstone” and Amanda Tapping conversation
19:20 – Premise of the Touchstone Device
20:38 – Returning for SG-1: “Revisions” discussion
23:48 – Filming in Vancouver
25:57 – Teaching and Directing Her Web Series
32:05 – Battlestar Galactica: Playing the Cylon Hybrid
38:36 – Fan Questions: Differences between the Stargate appearances
39:46 – Familiarity of Stargate
41:27 – Stargate worlds – which would Tiffany live in?
42:22 – Tiffany’s Hobbies
44:47 – Wolf Creek
48:38 – Wrapping up with Tiffany
49:57 – Post-interview housekeeping
52:44 – End Credits

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David Read
Hello everyone, my name is David Read and welcome to episode 188 of DialtheGate; the Stargate Oral History Project. Thank you so much for joining me on this Thursday. Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, who played La Moor and Evalla in Stargate SG-1, is joining us for this episode. Before we bring her in. if you enjoy Stargate, and you want to see more content like this on YouTube, click that like button it makes a difference with the show and will help us grow our audience. Please also consider sharing this video with a Stargate friend. And if you want to get notified about future episodes, click the Subscribe icon. Giving the bell icon that click will notify you the moment a new video drops and you’ll get my notifications of any last minute guest changes. Clips from this live stream will be released over the course of the next few weeks on the DialtheGate and GateWorld.net YouTube channels. As this is a live show I have my moderators in the YouTube chat standing by for your questions for Tiffany. So you can go ahead and submit those to the moderating team and they’ll get them over to me. I believe today it is Tracy and Anthony. So I appreciate them joining us. But before we get into this any further on the fan end, I’m gonna go ahead and bring in Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, known actually more commonly among the sci-fi community as the Cylon Hybrid, but we know her her as La Moor and Evalla in Stargate SG-1. How are you?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I’m very well thank you. Nice to nice to be chatting with you today.

David Read
Nice to be chatting with you as well. So you are in Australia now. But you said you were originally from…were you born in Australia or where were you born in Canada? You didn’t tell me that.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Canada. Canada originally and then Australia. But I’m a hybrid now. I’m 50/50.

David Read
That’s it exactly. How did you get involved in this profession, Tiffany? What was it that drew you to it?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh, ah. Probably like a lot of people. I was a bit of a misfit, I guess. And theater was the place where I felt like I belonged. The first film that I saw that really inspired me, I’m really revealing my trick, it was Star Wars and I wanted to be Han Solo. I remember I was like five years old or seven years old. And my dad took us to the theater and I was holding the armrests of my seat and imagining that I was in the Millennium Falcon steering away. I moved to Australia when I was nine years old and my parents had divorced. It was quite a detachment from home. And I had a different accent and I didn’t really feel like I belonged in Australia and that world. And theatre was the first place where I sort of found my tribe. So yeah.

David Read
Was that was that grade school? Was that high school?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah. I did a little play in primary school, which made people, I made people laugh. And that was a real revelation. And then it was high school. I went to a girls school, all-girl school, and they let us audition for a musical. It was A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum.

David Read
Yeah i’ve seen it, it’s great Third time around!.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I got to play one of the one of the courtesans, I was part of the Gemini twins. You think now like, my god, a bunch of high schoolers playing, you know, not the most appropriate thing.

David Read
It’s a pretty wild play for high school.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh my god! Yeah. We went to a music camp and that was it. I was home.

David Read
There is something about getting in front of a live audience and sharing that energy. It’s a completely different set of tools than working on a closed set with a bunch of cameras and hitting your marks and getting a specific line of dialogue out and going through it again and again. You can’t beat the live audience, you know, you can’t beat that experience, there is an energy there that is intoxicating.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I totally agree with you. I totally agree. And that was my love. Film and television really was, for me, it was a means to an end. We didn’t get a lot of training in film and television when I was at theater school. I really only started doing it because I had children. You couldn’t really make a living as a theatre actor. I was in Vancouver by that stage, and working a lot in theater, which was great. Once I had a baby, I didn’t want to sort of be away from them and go into debt just to do my craft.

David Read
You have to make it work.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, that’s right. That’s right. And, you know, Vancouver is such, was still is, I guess, such a great place to work in film and television as well as theater. So I learned on the job. I really learned on the job.

David Read
Who are your personal and professional heroes? Who are the people who have helped to shape you into the person that you are? If that’s not too personal?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Gosh, what a big question. That people who have shaped me who I am? It probably sounds a bit corny, but I would say my dad, first and foremost, He worked for Kodak, Canada. He was the head of corporate communications for Kodak Canada. I only found this out, like this year when I went back to visit him after COVID, but he he was a great communicator. He was able to talk to audiences, it was like the madman world, I realized now. He was able to pitch an idea about the importance of storytelling and the importance particularly of, you know, photography in the domestic sphere. And so, excuse me, when we moved to Australia, and my dad was in Canada, he felt very strongly about the importance of continuing our relationship through communication. So we would write letters on a regular basis, but we also make tape recordings. I think I learned how to talk about the daily life and make that an interesting story. And to talk about emotions, through from a very early age with hands. He was the one that actually when I went back to Canada, because I didn’t get into the theater school I wanted to here, so I went to Canada ostensibly for six months, but I found a theater school and it was great. But it was really much harder than I expected it to be. And I was ready to quit a couple of times. And he said, you know, “you’re not a quitter”. He said, “this is a huge industry and there’s a space for everyone in it”. So yeah, that was that that was really a pivotal moment for me and he was right.

David Read
I think one of the things that frustrates me about about my current gen…I apologize for the dogs…that frustrates me about my current generation is if it doesn’t work in like just a few short months, if I’m not getting a corner office are getting exactly what I want, just quit! It’s easier. Plus, this is making me anxious anyway. It’s like, if you really, if you really push yourself, you know, who knows just how far you can go. If you want it badly enough, and we need more of that, you know?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
That’s funny you say that, because another person who I didn’t know well, but I keep in my mind, and I teach my students because I teach a lot now. It was Jerry Wasserman, you would probably know him as Cancer Man on X-Files and is a great, great actor.

David Read
And done some Stargate

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I remember going to an audition one year, it was January, it was quiet. I saw Jerry there, and he’s a lot older than me, but you know, so esteemed. And he said “how are you going? I said “God Jerry, I’m not booking anything.” He said ” oh no, me neither”, he said “But you know, enough shots on goal, one eventually is going to get into the net.” That hockey analogy for a Canadian really made sense to me. You just have to keep on trying. Eventually, you know, it’ll get in the net. That one I remind myself of.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
That’s good advice, you know. Was it Gretzky who said “you miss 100% of the shots you don’t take”? It’s so cliche, but it’s so true. You know, you have to try.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
And fail and fail again.

David Read
As long as it’s not doing the exact same thing again and again, hoping for a different result. Tell me about a role that pushed you perhaps in ways that you didn’t expect or that helped shape who you are?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh, I guess that would be a project that I did in 2016/2017. It was a solo show called, it was a theater piece originally, called 19 Weeks. It was written by a close friend and a colleague of mine here in in Adelaide, named Emily Steele. This is a piece about her experience of having a late term abortion after she had a diagnosis of a genetic abnormality. She’s a friend of mine. I was with her through that whole experience as a friend. Afterwards she said “I need to write about this because I don’t have any touchstones for how to navigate this. There’s no one talks about it. And I feel so alone, I need to articulate that experience, would you play me?” So I said, “of course, I’d be honored.” It was terrifying. The director and Emily decided to stage it in a swimming pool. The notion of an abortion play is a sort of a terrifying proposition. The thinking was staging it in a pool is a novel approach that might draw people in so that they can think through this concept in a slightly different way. It was an incredible experience. The audience would actually take their shoes off and roll up their pant legs and sit on the edge of the pool with their feet in the water. I was in the water. We were literally immersed in the same experience and sharing this experience. It’s toured around Australia. We actually turned it into a screened version of the theater piece with funding from Screen Australia, from the Australian Council to tour it to Edinburgh, but COVID happened, so they let us film it. I actually ended up writing, writing my PhD about that project. Looking at the tension between women’s rights and disability rights is a really big thing to grapple with that piece of theater. It’s had a pretty extreme impact on me in my career, as an artist, but more to the point it’s had a huge impact on audiences. We’ve had a lot of people come up to Emily afterwards and say “thank you so much. I’ve had no one be able to articulate what I’ve been through before.” So, not without controversy. But yeah.

David Read
Those stories have to be allowed to be told, you know. I don’t care what side that you’re on, or what what kind of issue it is, you know, people have to what is that’s what free speech is all about being able to share, you know, the controversial ideas. It’s not just the ideas that everyone accepts. It’s not what free speech is for, you know.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Or what art is for?

David Read
Yeah, very good. It’s designed to move someone. So that’s crazy. So this was filmed. Is there any way that we can watch it?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Well, we are in the process of looking for distribution channels right now. So stay tuned.

David Read
Absolutely. Please keep me in the loop. Is it 90 minutes? How long did the performance run?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
70 minutes.

David Read
70 minutes. Hope the pool was heated!

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Not really. Surprisingly not enough. Not enough. I got pretty wiry doing that show. We rehearsed in a completely unheated pool. I was in a wetsuit, It seems like a lot of my career is involving water, I realize as I say that.

David Read
That’s true. We’ll get to the Hybrid in a little bit. Thank you for sharing that story. That’s so poignant. Tell us about La Moor, ou brought up the word Touchstone, which I thought was very interesting. It’s not exactly a common word that I hear on this channel. It was in your brain. I think we need to go to La Moor now. The daughter of the, I forget what he was. He was her father Roham and it was a one-off……

David Read
It was a Shaman, wasn’t he a Shamen?

David Read
Yeah, he was blind and he was able to use the Touchstone. Tell us about that.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
That was my first TV job, that was my first professional gig actually. We’re going way back now. I really didn’t know what I was doing in terms of film and television at that stage. It was an amazing opportunity because really a challenging set. It was green screen, we had the fake snow and we had, you know, handling heavy objects and working with, you know, highly esteemed, you know, actors I’d seen on television, so I was pretty terrified. It’s like I say this a long time ago. Some of the things that I remember from that are they spray painted my body so that I was tanned, because, you know, Canadian. I had an incredibly long hair piece, that was new. Richard Dean Anderson was very, very charming. His wife had just had a baby. So he had like, a six week old, so like, the set was sort of buzzing with that. The thing I really remember the most was Amanda Tapping from that. I don’t think I had any scenes with her. I remember being at craft services with her. She was so gracious and really took me under her wing, and was very honest about, you know, this industry I was about to, you know, get involved in. I remember her talking about some of the challenges she might…..She said, when she first started on one of her first shows, when she was at craft services, someone said “ou know, watch what you’re eating, you know, we have got to be careful with your, you know, your shape.” I’ve watched her career from afar and been so impressed with what she’s done as a director, She’s a highly respected director. She was a bit of a role model for me through that process. Yeah.

David Read
She’s a wonderful genuine human being in an industry where you know…we’re seeing more of that now; people being able to open up. I can’t think of anyone more genuine from Stargate that I’ve had the privilege of meeting and talking to. There’s something about her man. She has earned every single accolade and she deserves it. She’s done great for herself.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I guess she was a real role model. Just to see how she navigated that notion of being, you know, the ingenue or the young woman sort of on the show into, you know, realizing herself as a, you know, a powerhouse, fully thinking maker in the industry. That was a great first experience and I got to buy my first car as a result of Stargate.

David Read
Hey, there you go!

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I had not had a car up to that point. I bought myself a Mazda RX7, bright red with the headlights that pop. That was the Stargate car for years.

David Read
Oh, that’s great. How was the blue screen or the green screen experience and having the snow thrown at you? We go to check in on this planet a couple of times to see how they’re doing and it gets worse and worse on them.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, it was so different from doing theater. Well, I say that it was so different from theater, but I had done a lot of Shakespeare at that point. That was what I was really, I was working with the Theatre Company of Vancouver. Actually, when I think about it, that father daughter relationship is a little bit like Prospero and Miranda, in dealing with the Tempest.

David Read
Exactly. Prospero’s island.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
A little familiar. I remember the snow. The hot wind of them blowing the snow in your face, and that tasted like soap. It was like, dried. It was like dried baby biscuits, it was foamy. You really did have to invest in your imagination. The wind was easy to react to but the hot, dry wind, it was it was not winter at all.

David Read
What was the idea that the whole episode hinges on this device that manipulates the weather? Was this like, “oh, that’s ridiculous, I’m gonna do the roll though. But that’s just ridiculous.” Or was that like, “oh, think of a planet that was manipulated by this device. That’s an interesting idea.” What were your thoughts on that?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
It was such a beautiful object going back and thinking about it that Touchstone so I think it felt more like fable than anything else. Of course you think about it now, like magical devices that can control the world like, “hey, welcome to chat GPT” you know? It wasn’t that far away. If only we could control our climate with an object. Gosh, I hadn’t really thought about it since then. The practicalities, I was still so young in my career. I don’t think I’ve thought through the nuances of that as much as like “Oh, God, don’t drop it with all of these people watching me.”

David Read
There’s probably one backup. Or were you told “don’t drop it, there’s no backup?” That’s funny. You came back five years later as Evalla. The spouse of Christopher Heyerdahl’s character, Pallan, in an episode of SG-1 called Revisions, which is also I think more and more relevant as we move forward. You guys on this planet had a device, which rewrote your memories, based on the circumstances surrounding the dome that was continually collapsing and continually murdering citizens of this planet. Evalla, she just packs up her things and she moves out. And it’s like, it was such a wild idea. Tell us about coming back after five years, seeing some familiar faces and playing that role.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Gosh. It’s funny. Touchstone is obviously the one I really remember most clearly because it was my first, first corporate gig and I had played daughters, that sort of archetypal relationship father daughter before and theatre, quite a few times. Evalla I have fewer memories about to be completely honest. It was five years later. I hadn’t had children yet, but I was getting close. That was about being a mother that role, actually now that I think about it. Evalla, did she have children?

David Read
I don’t think that they did, let me double check. No, she was just married to Pallan, Chris Heyerdahl’s character. They had they had the link devices on their temples that would rewire them.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
That was the interesting part. It was so thrilling to be able to come back to a show that was so well respected. People love to work on that show. To get the opportunity to play an entirely different character, when everyone knows the ark of this was really a great honor. I guess, it was also interesting, now that I think about it, five years later, a little bit older, to not be dressed, to not be spray painted. To not be dressed in a bikini. I look back at some of those stuff and go, “wow, you know, gosh, times have changed in the way we represent women on screen.” Evalla was in, you know, it wasn’t about her, her body, it was about her journey, in that story. I’m grateful that I had the opportunity to go back and tell the story that was more of a quest than a representation like an empty representation of the ingenue. To grow in that way was a real was a real gift with the show.

David Read
Stargate as it went along, you know, it helped transform that town. I’m not talking about P3X-289, the dome, I’m talking about Vancouver. It’s wild watching, as I’ve had the privilege of going up and being there when they filmed over the years. Just watching Vancouver grow, partly as a result of shows like Stargate and BSG; just exploded north Hollywood. It is it is an industry up there now with WB, CW and all these other programs constantly running. It is really an industry town. You were there watching it transform.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, yeah, so a part of that. That’s why it’s been interesting to move to South Australia, which is a regional city, capital city, but very much, sort of a big country town. Now I teach actors, that’s what I primarily do at the moment. I’m a lecturer at a university here and I focus on screen acting primarily. I realized how lucky I was to start my career in Vancouver, and be in a place where you can actually be by and large settled in one place and have a home as an actor, because that is absolutely not the reality for the vast majority of people, particularly in Australia. Absolutely in South Australia. The reality is that if you want to have a career in the industry you either have to have many, many strings to your bows and be a portfolio worker, as we say, or you have to be prepared to just be a nomad. It was a great time and it’s a great city. So we’ll see what happens with this actors strike.

David Read
You mean the writers strikes?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Beg your pardon, writers strike.

David Read
it’s gonna be wild. Yeah. Some people think it’ll be over pretty quickly. Now people are like, “Ah, no, I’m not so sure.” It’s gonna be interesting to see what happens for sure. How long have you been teaching?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I’ve taught pretty much on and off through my career, little bits when I was in Vancouver. When I moved here I met with some industry people when we were thinking about making the move. I’m grateful to them, because they went “look, you’re not going to have the speak, it won’t be the same.” I made a decision that I played enough roles, and done enough things that I was ready to challenge myself with something else. I wanted to direct more and I figured that the way I would find my way through directing is by is by teaching. I had the strategy that if I taught people at a university level, once they graduated, and they entered the industry, they’d hire me, or I get to work with them. That’s worked out.

David Read
It’s networking, you know?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
it’s totally networking.

David Read
I would rather hire someone that I know can do the job. It says something about, you know, being able to take opportunities on unknowns as well, that’s certainly the case, but making a connection with someone and coming back around to them later on your career, you know, that’s, it’s a huge portion of what this industry is. You want someone who can…

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Collaboration..

David Read
Right. Exactly. And I have found in my life that there is such a reward in sharing knowledge with someone who wants to obtain it, and help it shape them and mold them in different ways as well. It’s very satisfying.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
It is, it is satisfying. I think I’m a better teacher than I am an actor. I certainly think I’m a better teacher of screen acting. I have learned so much by having as a performer, by having to, you know, deconstruct it, and figure out how to communicate those ideas to another person. I really love that process. I really enjoyed that process. Now I am directing more in screen and I’m really enjoying that too.

David Read
Tell us about that.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I’m in the process of post-production for a web series that I’m directing, which is called “Behind the Scenes.” It’s about a woman who runs a vintage shop, clothing shop, and her father has just died. Her mother brings all his clothes, her mother’s ready to move on with her life. India, the central character finds a photograph in one of the pockets of his clothes, that opens up a whole unknown past to her. It’s really a story of the sandwich generation, women my age who are caring up and caring down at the same time, caring for parents and for children. That’s woven through this story of slow fashion and upcycling and caring for our world by caring for our past. It’s been such a delight to do. I’m working with crew members that I’ve worked with in Adelaide as an actor for many times. Now, again, networking or collaboration, these colleagues have been so wonderful in supporting me as I create this world. I think every actor should direct if they get the opportunity. As an actor, you get to make so many creative decisions in this sort of pathway in this band. Then when you direct those choices just get to expand like this. The joy of storytelling through all those different techniques and bringing together all these experts in their field is really, really exciting. It’s gonna be distributed on Facebook Watch. It’s an online distribution initiative that Screen Australia has been doing, which is great. I’ll let you know.

David Read
Yes. So, like the next six months?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Coming up, June, July, actually. It’s coming.

David Read
Oh really soon. Okay, that’s great. There is something so satisfying about it. It’s not being in control, it’s being in the position of facilitating a story from all these different angles and sections and watching it come together with a group of people that you’ve shepherded and giving, it’s like giving birth, you know, and it’s so rewarding.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, you’ve obviously done this.

David Read
In college, it was one of the greatest experiences of my life, the good and the bad.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Totally, totally. It reminds me a little bit of Kath…to use a different reference, Kathryn Janeway, from Voyager. All the great captains, you see there on the bridge, like every person, they’re experts in their field. And the Captain’s job is really just to bring all these great minds together and just go, “yes, we’re navigating this direction, instead of that direction.” That’s what I like about it.

David Read
Are you a Voyager? fan?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Major Voyager, major.

David Read
Ah man, it was so good. There’s some great callbacks in Star Trek Picard season 3 to the Voyager stuff. It was fantastic.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Ah yes my husband has been watching that one. I haven’t started Picard yet.

David Read
Don’t let him spoil you. There’s some great Voyager…there’s like ten or eleven Voyager callbacks that resolve themselves very nicely. Because Jerry Ryan’s in it. And so…

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh, fantastic. Oh, I know what I’m watching next.

David Read
There you go. Tell me about getting the gig for the Cylon Hybrid, which I imagine was probably not that prominent a thing at first. Ron Moore went on to call the Hybrid model zero out of all the the twelve, well, potentially thirteen models. What a cool experience. What a wet experience.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh, it was fantastic experience. I was a huge fan of the show already. Alessandra Giuliani is a very close friend of ours. He’s my kid’s godfather. We had a vested stake in the show anyway. When I actually booked it, my second child, my daughter was about six months old. I had two little kids and I remember that the way I figured out how to play that character. A couple of times the writers came up and went, “can you learn all these lines?” I was like, “you guys wrote it, c’mon.” I sort of imagined what it must be like to be in utero. That’s what I thought the hybrid was like, you know, she’s floating in water. She just gets all these signals sort of floating around the world around her.

David Read
And in the cosmos. She is the ship. She’s floating in empty space.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, that’s exactly right. That’s right. So I just imagined that I was channeling like, if I was in utero, I was channeling all the things that I was hearing out there, and just sort of putting them into a stream of consciousness. I have to say that all the Shakespeare I had done because I’ve done about twelve shows at that stage, really helped me, I just had to look at that text as poetry and find for myself, those internal links and the symbolism and the backstory that is just sort of encoded into that text. That was the way I sort of found my way through. I remember going on set for the first day and my heart just pounding because I was suddenly it was like LARPing, you know, before they had the term like I wouldn’t get it.

David Read
You’re doing the thing. Wow. So you look at the character as not just filtering random noise. There are many spiritual components to that show. I would argue that the Hybrid is a big one, if you consider that she’s receiving information from places like wherever Kara. I would surmise that you would probably think that she’s actually receiving not just noise, like background noise, something much more real. For want of a better word.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, I think so I think she’s channeling things. It’s just up to the people who listen to decode it, really. She doesn’t have the capacity, like a baby, you know? I think that babies understand a lot, but it takes them time to learn how to find the language to communicate that but they hear it all. They understand it. It takes time for them to, to articulate or process it and communicate that. That was that was the analogy I was using.

David Read
It was just wild. Have you seen the concept art for the Hybrid?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
No.

David Read
I have it. I’ll send it to you.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh, really. I know we went through a couple of different outfits. We tried to do different things. There was one with like, I think we ended up with the cables and the lights that went underwater, but there was like tentacles at one stage. It was a real process. Yeah.

David Read
Was it uncomfortable?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
When I was in the water I was very lucky. They had a person there. There was one crew member who was like my water boy. He always kept the temperature at a certain level which was great. Then they pour in this tempera paint to get the right opacity. It wasn’t uncomfortable to buttline it. It was time consuming to de-robe, that was time consuming because I was covered in KY jelly, but totally worth it.

David Read
I had always wondered if, because those lines can get complex after a while, I have always wondered if you were allowed to read cards, because they were written. But it’s really awesome to hear that you memorized that. God forbid they change anything on you.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
No, they didn’t know what it meant either.

David Read
For, not Blood and Chrome, for The Plan, did they have you back for that? Or was that all previously recorded footage?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh no, they had me back for that.

David Read
Eddie [James Olmos] brought you back in.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah. That’s the film at the end. Yeah they did have me back for that. Then we just moved to Australia after that. I remember I had to do voice over here in a studio and patch that in.

David Read
As the ships jump to cut away.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, that’s right.

David Read
That’s wild. What a cool experience on a show that you that you enjoyed, you know?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Loved Loved. I’ll tell you something, I have to make a confession. After I was on it, the magic went away. I couldn’t. I couldn’t watch it, in, I don’t…

David Read
…same way. Or you didn’t watch it at all?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I think I stopped watching it after…I don’t think I’ve watched the final season.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
All I could see was everything outside the frame. I can imagine the guy running boom, I can imagine my water guy. I detached from it. Yeah, it’s weird. I can go back and watch it now.

David Read
Oh why?

David Read
Absolutely you can. It’s a controversial ending but it’s a satisfying one. In my opinion. A lot of people were…it was one of the more controversial endings of the time. But what a hell of a show. Man oh man, some of the talent behind it from Alessandro, Ron Moore, David Icke. Just brilliant, absolutely brilliant. I really appreciate you sharing memories from it.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
It was it was a great, great career defining experience. 100%

David Read
I have few fan questions for you before I let you go.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Really?

David Read
Yes, absolutely. Anthony and Lockwatcher both want to know, did you see any difference in the cast and crew and how you worked with them from your early appearance to your later appearance in season seven? Or was it the exact same refined machine? Were they a little bit… did you feel like they were a little bit more refined when you came back? Were things faster? I’m curious. Or was there no difference at all?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I don’t remember a difference. I don’t think so. I just qualify that with, like I said, the first one, Touchstone was my very first gig ever. I was a complete newbie and everything was so stimulating and overwhelming. I don’t think that’s a fair measure from then to where I was five years later. I was just too wrapped up in my own sort of [gestures overwhelmingly] at the time to really notice.

David Read
Who could blame ya, you know? You only have your first gig once.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
That’s right, and I was so starstruck, I mean Richard Dean Anderson, it’s MacGyver.

David Read
Exactly! Right! Adam Storfer wanted to know did you watch…how familiar were you with Stargate before joining the the show in that episode? And have you seen it since?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I was peripherally aware of it. My dad was a big fan, my dad’s a Trekkie. He was the one who was, who knew all about it. I knew it through watching it over at my dad’s house. I wasn’t a huge fan the way I was with Battlestar Galactica. I think that that was sort of okay, because it was more episodic and coming in as a day player, you could be less aware of the nuance of it all.

David Read
They’re very different types of shows. Battlestar was telling one story; a soap opera in space.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I think, now thinking back later, it’s so great to have those shows, those vignette based shows that allow lots of different actors to come through and try their chops and create these great characters. I’ve just been watching Poker Face. That’s my new sort of obsession right now. It’s the same thing, it’s like “oh, so great to see a show that provides opportunities for not the stars but for working actors to come and just give a fantastic performance and then they’re off to the next thing.” I’m very grateful to Stargate for that. It’s like you say, it just put Vancouver on the map and it Vancouver actors such a great opportunity to show their chops.

David Read
Absolutely. Pamela Tarajcak – of the two Stargate planets that you were on; the world with the Touchstone and the world of Revisions. If you had to live in one which would you live in?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Well, I guess I would have to say, La Moor’s world ultimately.

David Read
It’s paradise when it’s working.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah. It was fine. It was like Australia. It was cool, like the temperature was best for me. I don’t remember too much about Revisions, but it was cold and muddy. That was the world. Yeah.

David Read
I think it’s a just a great idea. They steal this thing with the hope of solving our climate. In the episode, they make it worse on earth. Like human tempering, that sounds about right.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
They really were prescient, weren’t they?

David Read
Absolutely. Tracy – what do you like to do in your off-time? How do you unwind?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh, how do I unwind? Gardening. I love to garden. I love ripping out weeds, I’m just looking at my garden out there. It needs a few.

David Read
A few more weeds?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Some more weeds need to be ripped out. And walking, walking. I live in a little country town here about half an hour from the city. I have a very special, we call it the sneaky back route that I’ve walked for many years. I love just seeing how the world has like slowly changes through the seasons. That’s about as much time as I have right now; walking. I would love to be doing other things but I just dont have the time.

David Read
There’s something to be said for…because I live downtown and I live about 45 minutes outside of a major city. There’s something to be said for having the peace and quiet, rather than just rush rush rush. I thought about living in New York for a while, but I couldn’t do it. Maybe for like six months. But you need space. You know, I do.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
I do too. I just went back to Canada with my son actually, first time since COVID. We went to Vancouver and Toronto and I was really worried that I would go back to Vancouver and think, “oh, I should be back here; my peeps and the work….” and I was really relieved actually to go “nope, this is where I’m meant to be right now.” Vancouver was so, so important and so wonderful. I never planned to leave.

David Read
It was a chapter.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
It was a chapter, that’s exactly right. My son’s planning to move back now for his little…

David Read
To Vancouver?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Back to Vancouver. He’s 19. I was 19 when I moved to Canada.

David Read
Familie’s there.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
That’s right. I just think that’s what you need to do. You need to go. That city is your city now. Off you go.

David Read
Is he gonna follow in mom’s footsteps?

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
No, I don’t think he’s an actor. I think he would be a fantastic first AD. I’m hoping I can him, knowing some, I think I’ll get into the Directors Guild and knocking on some doors. I think he’d be a great PA to start with.

David Read
Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree does it? The Time Prophet wants to know “I hear you were in an episode of Wolf Creek. How well…” This is all news to me. “How well do you know John Jarratt and is he scary in real life?” If that means anything.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah. Wolf Creek is a famous Australian movie originally about a serial killer. They made a series about it, a couple of series, and I played in a flashback scene, I played his mum. It was a very intense scene. She was a severe alcoholic. You see him as a little boy being beaten by his father. It was a great scene, because it explains why this man becomes, in part, why this man becomes the person he is. It’s backstory, I haven’t met personally, John. So I don’t know if he’s scary. Shooting that scene was scary because South Australia has wonderful locations that are, there’s all these old ruins, sandstone, settlers houses that just just out there to be explored. We found this place way out in the north of the city, that was a huge old abandoned building. It was absolutely full of pigeon shit. All children’s toys that were covered in this. It was just terrifying, was terrifying. You could just feel all this history of this abandoned dream you know, placed on stolen land too, as well. It was very eerie. As a result, very easy to play this desolate life and this destroyed woman. That’s my Australian gothic experience with that piece.

David Read
There’s so much amazing content being made now. You look at Ireland, Game of Thrones opened that country wide open. I’d love to see more productions from Australia, make their way to screens over here. The internet is the way to do it, with YouTube Watch. and so many of these, or Facebook Watch, there’s more and more that’s becoming available.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah, absolutely. I’m the National Vice President of Equity in Australia, of our Union. One of the really big issues that we’re we’re dealing with is streaming and making sure that we get Australian content into streaming. We’ve had a couple of hits on Netflix lately. Hannah Gadsby obviously took the world by storm. There’s also Heartbreak High, which is a fabulous remake of an original Australian series that suddenly, it’s just tapped into young people all around the world, The language is so uniquely Australian and I think that’s part of the charm of it, is people are discovering this, this culture, it really is a culture. I’m hoping that as the streaming services go more global that it isn’t just a case of what Vancouver used to be. Which was “the big stars come from overseas or from the States and the Canadians get a 50 worder”. It would be so wonderful if we find a reciprocal relationship where stories from these local places go. Penetrate the rest of the world.

David Read
It has been a delight having you on. I’ve really enjoyed this time. I really hope that you take someone in your household who’s a sci-fi fan, maybe your son, and rewatch Battlestar from the beginning. It’s an 80 hour journey and your role was so consequential in it. I’d love to talk about the ending with you, frankly. It’s such an important icon of the 2000s of in early 2010s of sci-fi, and you were part of it. So, enjoy it.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
All right, you’ve inspired me David. When I finish Poker Face I’ll go back to BSG.

David Read
Hey, there you go. Deal, that works.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Absolutely. I’ll let you know when I’ve done it.

David Read
I really appreciate your time. I truly wish you all the best with everything that you’ve got going on down under and thank you. Thank you for spending a little bit of your morning with me.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Oh, it’s been a pleasure. Thank you so much. I really enjoyed this trip down memory lane. Now I’ve got a task.

David Read
Absolutely. You take care of yourself. All right.

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
Yeah. Take care.

David Read
Be well. Bye bye!

Tiffany Lyndall-Knight
See you later. Bye Bye!

David Read
Tiffany Lyndall-Knight, Stargate SG-1.

David Read
We’ve got got a couple of rascals back here. We’re going to go ahead and wrap up the show. I appreciate everyone tuning in for this episode and if you enjoyed the content, go ahead and click that like button and share this episode with your friends. Get some more folks get some more folks involved. We had an episode planned for this Sunday with Tor Alexander Valenza. He was going to come back and share some of his journal entries from the time that he was writing a Stargate SG-1, where he had a lot of his content put into the show. When he was writing in his journals, he would he would write script notes and he was going to come on and share those with us. I’m gonna have to postpone that episode. We will be bringing him back on at some point here in the near future and we’ll see how that goes. I’m out here in California working right now, I’m actually editing in this house. Vinnie! Trinity! Come here. That’s Trinity. Come here. Come on. Say hi. You can’t see her but there she is. So this is…and then Vinnie. Come on. Come here. They’re usually everywhere. I can’t can’t get them over to me right now. But it’s all good. Something’s going on outside. I appreciate you tuning in. We’re going to be back in the next few weeks here with more DialtheGate episodes and we’re going to go ahead and wrap up season three here. We will see how that pans out. Thanks so much for my moderating team, Tracy and Antony, for making this episode possible on the back end. My Producer Linda “GateGabber” Furey and Frederick Marcoux, my web developer, couldn’t do the show without you guys. As of this week, DialtheGate is fully on IMDb. If you want to go in and check out all the individual cast and crew that we’ve had on the show that updated list is in IMDb as well. All you have to do is search for DialtheGate. Appreciate you tuning in. My name is David Read for DialtheGate. Thanks again to Tiffany Lyndall-Knight and we’ll see you on the other side.