Other than perhaps Eli, it’d be hard to argue over another character who underwent more of a transformation in two seasons of Stargate Universe other than Chloe Armstrong. Elyse Levesque took a senator’s daughter and made her a vital member of the Destiny crew near the end of its all-too-short run. Now she joins Dial the Gate to discuss the journey.

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Timecodes
0:00 – Splash Screen
0:25 – Opening Credits
0:45 – Episode Title
0:52 – Welcome and Episode Outline
1:12 – Call to Action
1:46 – Guest Introduction
2:27 – Brad Wright Working on the New Stargate
2:56 – Where do you think Destiny was going?
4:58 – Fan-made model of Destiny/Brian’s Space Suit
5:18 – Importance of the Archive
5:49 – Can you tell us about your formative years?
7:18 – Was acting an outlet for you to express yourself?
9:46 – Your Personal Heroes
11:51 – Tell us about a role that was challenging and stretched you
14:06 – Auditioning for Chloe
16:28 – Seeing cast members at the audition/Alaina read for Chloe as well
17:53 – What made you fall in love with Chloe?
18:56 – Chloe’s character arc and transformation
21:20 – Horrible and nasty situation (Time)
22:44 – Living in the same street with cast mates
23:08 – Who among the cast were you closest to?
24:20 – 2×05 “Cloverdale”
25:15 – Which episode stands out to you? (Air Part 1 & 2)
26:05 – 1×12 “Divided”
27:01 – Eli friend-zoned (Incursion)
27:26 – Makeup for 2×18 “Epilogue”
28:51 – Music Video – Coupla Hot Chicks
29:28 – How intense was the submersion scene?
30:30 – What was it like to work with Teryl Rothery on Cedar Cove?
30:53 – If you had your choice of a role for the new SG series, what would it be?
32:27 – Post-Interview Housekeeping
37:26 – End Credits

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TRANSCRIPT
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David Read:
Welcome everyone to episode 72 of Dial the Gate. My name is David Read. Elyse Levesque, Chloe Armstrong from Stargate Universe will be joining us momentarily. I am so grateful to have her on and so grateful to all of you for joining us for this episode. Before we get started, if you like Stargate and you wanna see more content like this on YouTube it would mean a great deal if you clicked the Like button. It really makes a difference with YouTube algorithm and will definitely help the show build its audience. Please also consider sharing this video with a Stargate friend. And if you wanna get notified about future episodes, click the Subscribe icon. Giving the bell icon a click will notify you the moment a new video drops and you’ll get my notifications of any last minute guest changes. This is key if you plan on watching live. And clips from this livestream will be released over the course of the next several days on the Gateworld.net YouTube channel. It is my privilege to welcome SGU alum, Elyse Levesque. Chloe Armstrong. How are you?

Elyse Levesque:
Hey. I’m good. How are you doing? Congratulations. Episode 72?

David Read:
Yes, 72. We started in October. Thank you.

Elyse Levesque:
You’ve just started this last October?

David Read:
Yes. We did four or three shows a weekend for a while there. I really wanted to get momentum going.

Elyse Levesque:
And maximize [inaudible] the pandemic.

David Read:
Not bad for an ended TV franchise of 10 years.

Elyse Levesque:
Not bad.

David Read:
The Stargate fans don’t go away. They keep on spawning like rabbits. Now with SG-1 being on Netflix, and everything else, and Brad Wright working on SG-4. I’m excited Elyse. I really am.

Elyse Levesque:
I didn’t know Brad’s working on SG-4.

David Read:
He’s negotiating with MGM on getting it off the ground so hopefully we’ll see something.

Elyse Levesque:
That’s cool. That’s great. I did not know that.

David Read:
We have to know what happened to Destiny. We can’t keep you guys all popsicles forever.

Elyse Levesque:
I know. I’m so curious about what everyone’s theories are. [inaudible]

David Read:
I’m interested, you know… Let’s hit it off right. Where do you think Destiny was going? I know David knows the actual answer. And he’s sworn to secrecy.

Elyse Levesque:
They told him, didn’t they? I can’t even fully remember, like, anything.

David Read:
So, there was a cosmic background radiation. There was a message hidden in the radiation that makes up the universe. And that’s really all we knew when Destiny was moving through space. We didn’t know if it was collecting information as it moved. Or if they were ultimately going towards a final destination. The premise was so exciting.

Elyse Levesque:
All I remember [is], I feel, like, we were all put to sleep in those chambers and that ten or more years were gonna go by or something like that.

David Read:
It was three years that they were gonna skip over to the next galaxy.

Elyse Levesque:
And then we come out and Eli’s just, like, a caveman with a long beard.

David Read:
He’s actually super fit. He finally joined the jogging team.

Elyse Levesque:
Yeah. It’s so true. All that time he spent working out. I really have no theories which is why I’m, like, I wanna hear what other people think [of] where it would have gone. Because I have no idea. What do you think?

David Read:
I had a few different… I’m not entirely… I don’t think it was God. I don’t think it was, like, we were gonna find out that Rush had created all creation or something like that. I think, given [it’s] Stargate, whatever it was it would not have been disappointing. I think we would have found out something greater about ourselves. I think.

Elyse Levesque:
Mission of the Destiny, ultimately. There’s something really profound in the title of the ship itself.

David Read:
Absolutely. I’ve got her sitting right here behind me back there. That is a fan made model.

Elyse Levesque:
Oh, wow! That’s so cool. I also see… Isn’t that one of the suits from…?

David Read:
Yes. So over here… That was Brian’s. I’m very lucky.

Elyse Levesque:
You are.

David Read:
Elyse, [what] I want to [do] with the show [is] make a lasting legacy of resource… Because YouTube is certainly not going anywhere. For people who have yet to discover the franchise, and who view it again in the future, to come back to these archive videos and learn more about the people who were involved in the making of this massive thing. And that’s why it’s so important for me to have you on, and your colleagues. Tell us a little bit about your formative years. Who were you as a young person and what were your dreams and goals? How did that lead to Chloe?

Elyse Levesque:
To me… I grew up in a small city in Canada called Regina. That’s how it’s pronounced. [In] Saskatchewan. And I’m an only child.

David Read:
Me too!

Elyse Levesque:
You are as well?

David Read:
I try not to be selfish but, you know…

Elyse Levesque:
I was so lonely as a kid. I think being an only child definitely had a profound effect on who I am. Because I was alone so much, it really fostered my imagination and my creativity. I became very good at occupying myself and finding ways to keep myself entertained.

David Read:
Especially in a small town when there is not a lot of people who share your thoughts and ideas per se. There’s only just the people that you happen to be around.

Elyse Levesque:
Yeah. I was always a bit different. I dressed differently. I don’t know if I was different or that I just wasn’t the right brand of whatever the kids were into those days. But I was very much bullied a lot. And kind of always felt like an outsider. So, it’s interesting that I went into this industry because I feel like it’s a place where a lot of people go, and they feel like they don’t fit anywhere.

David Read:
Did you find it to be an outlet where you could express yourself? Is that really what drew you into it? Or was it, like, “All the odd people are over here and they’re more interesting than anyone else so I wanna hang out with them?”

Elyse Levesque:
Definitely a big part of it. I started acting when I was 11. I was on a children’s television series that filmed in my hometown.

David Read:
That’s great.

Elyse Levesque:
It was such a great introduction to this industry. For one it was all kids in the cast so it was very kid-friendly. And we filmed during the summer, so it didn’t really interrupt school. It kind of felt, like, this weird little summer camp. And every episode was a couple short stories based on… A couple of short stories that kids had written that then screenwriters took and made into little short films. So, we would get to play all these really crazy… I played the moon in an episode. I played an alien in another one. I played Juliet trapped in some alternate universe in another episode. So, it was this really fun, playful way, and light introduction into acting and into the business. Because they taught us everything. We did like a two-week workshop before we started filming where they were, like, “This is how it’s gonna be on set. This is where your mark will [be]. This is how, like, light stuff. We say, roll sound.” So, I didn’t have to learn on the fly on some new set. But I remember [that] for one, it taught me a lot about responsibility at a young age. And even though it was a children’s show, ultimately you were working in an adult environment. I just remember meeting people from all different walks of life and feeling this really beautiful connection with everyone. There’s this intense bonding that happens often on film sets. Similar to theater too.

David Read:
You’re in the trenches.

Elyse Levesque:
You’re in the trenches together. Pretty much everybody wants to be there, which is rare, I think, for most jobs.

David Read:
That’s true.

Elyse Levesque:
[inaudible] …to go and do what they do. Because a lot of people get into this business for their love of film or their love of, you know, design, or acting. So, I just met all of these amazing people and formed these really great relationships, some of which I still have to this day. I forgot what the question was.

David Read:
You answered it. Who were the people who have helped to shape you into the person you are now? Who were your personal and professional heroes?

Elyse Levesque:
There’s certainly a lot of people who have influenced me in personal life. I’m reticent to call anyone a hero because I think that puts them on too high of a pedestal.

David Read:
OK. That’s fair.

Elyse Levesque:
But certainly, my mom [who]’s a very artistic person. She’s an amazing visual artist, and very creative, and curious about a lot of things. And she sort of fostered my love of, like, BBC miniseries drama and also, like, Guillermo del Toro horror movies. She’s kind of a quirky lady and so I think she’s had a lot of influence on me. And my dad is, like, the much more pragmatic mathematician. So, I’d like to think I got the best of both worlds from both of them. They’ve been huge influences and incredibly supportive of everything that I’ve done in my life. And then, you know, over the years there were always people who came in, like… I had a grade six teacher who honestly, I don’t know if I would have gotten on the path of acting if it hadn’t been for her. She, I guess, saw that I, you know… She recognized some ability in me to do that sort of thing and was the one who told me about this audition for this children’s TV series, and she was, like, “I really think you should go. I think you should go audition for this.” So, who knows, had I not taken her advice, maybe I would have found my way to the industry at some point, but it wasn’t like it was a goal for me. It wasn’t, like, “I wanna be an actor when I grow up,” in the way that you hear some other people felt. For me it was, like, “I wanna be a marine biologist. I wanna be a vet.”

David Read:
Did you have a chance to thank this teacher.

Elyse Levesque:
I never did. And I don’t know. I’m sure there would be a way to get in touch with her at his point. But I definitely, at some point, should say to her… She, I think, set me on the path of where I currently find myself. Ms. Krauss. Thanks Ms. Krauss.

David Read:
Tell us about a role which stretched you, and possibly in ways that you didn’t expect, or were more challenging that first appeared on the surface.

Elyse Levesque:
There’s been a few, for sure. One of the more recent ones for me was, I did an arc on the final season of Orphan Black, and played, like, smarmy kind of dirty detective. I’m not really entirely… She was Neolution, which was, like, underground bad guys in the show. And that’s kind of the first time, like… Over the years I’ve played a lot of, like, nice people, prior to this. I think I played, like, one character that’s kind of bad. But it was the first time that I was this really kind of dirty, no makeup, like, very masculine character. And I had never… Nobody had given me that opportunity. It was actually a role that was originally written for a man, and then they cast me because the writers of that show were so amazing. We’re not gonna change anything about the character. We’re not gonna change the name. We’re not gonna change the misogynist things that she says. We’re just gonna leave all of that as is. So, it was a blast to play, and also, like, so outside my comfort zone as an actor. And then on top of that I was a fan of the show, so then I was just, like, “Don’t f*** this up.” And Tat[iana] Maslany is one of my really good friends. She’s the lead of it and I didn’t wanna, like, come on her show and shit the bed.

David Read:
It’s a real fear.

Elyse Levesque:
So that one stands out for me, like, something that was challenging and also really rewarding. And cool to be there for the end of that franchise. Sorry, that series.

David Read:
I have yet to see it, but I’ve heard very good things. It’s on my list.

Elyse Levesque:
You’ll love it.

David Read:
Absolutely.

Elyse Levesque:
She’s unbelievable, what she does.

David Read:
Alright. Tell us about auditioning for Chloe.

Elyse Levesque:
It’s so funny sometimes, like, the opportunities that you get. I didn’t think anything of it. I remember I got an email… My friend who was my roommate at the time and I had gone to get massages at this place in Vancouver, and I got out and I was, like, “Oh, you have an audition tomorrow morning.” And I was, like, “Oh. I just wanna relax tonight. I’m gonna go and learn lines? I just wanna relax. I’m feeling very Zen.” So anyway, I was, like, “What is this Stargate? OK. Chloe. OK.” So, I went home, and I did a bit of work on it. I didn’t obsess over it in the way that I normally do, and I can get really uptight about auditions. But the words came really easy. I learned them super-fast. And then the next morning my friend took me to this audition. I went in and it was one of those things that happen very rare[ly], for me anyway, where I dropped into something halfway through the audition and I just stopped acting, like, it just felt very real. Everything I was saying felt like my words. It’s such a treat when that happens.

David Read:
You find flow.

Elyse Levesque:
Yeah, you get into that pocket, that sweet little pocket. And for some reason that happened. And I fooled them, and they hired me.

David Read:
There was no fooling.

Elyse Levesque:
But I did end up… It was one of those rare things where I was, like, “That went really well. Huh. OK.” Didn’t think much about it and about a month later, I was in New York, and I got an email saying, “They might wanna test you for this role. You might have to fly to L.A.” And I think it was, like, a week later [that] I was on a plane. I went, and the night before I did the test, I had a… They do this, like, work session with the casting director and he’ll be, like, “OK. So, they really want to see this from you, they want to see this, the want to see this.” He was adamant that they needed to see my emotional range that basically, like, without saying it, he was, like, “You need to cry. We need to see some tears.” I was, like, “OK. OK. OK.” And I was going through a breakup or having my heart broken at the time, so I was, like, “Tears. They’re gonna come in streaming. Just wait.” So, I get to the Universal lot and sitting in the thing, and I can remember David Blue, and I can remember Louis Ferreira, and I can remember Alaina because Alaina read for Chloe as well. And I was there for, like, three [or] four hours before I went in. So, by the time I had to go in I was not connected to any emotion. I had been working up so much that by the time they were, like, “And Elyse,” I was, like, “Oh no. I don’t feel anything.” So, I ran in, I did the audition, and I was hoping to God that they were going to be, like, “Yeah. Let’s do that again.” They were, like, “OK. Great. Thank you.” I left [and] I had to wait. They make you wait after your test, and then I saw the girls go in and come out after me and they had mascara, like, running down their face and I was like, “I lost it. There’s no way I’m getting this.” And they came out after, like, “OK. You can all go home.” And then I think it was over a month later [that] I found out I got the part. It was like a three-month affair.

David Read:
And you thought it was dead and gone. It just goes to show.

Elyse Levesque:
Yeah. At one point I had heard that they cast somebody else, and I think they had considered casting someone else and then ultimately Brad [Wright] and Robert [C. Cooper] were, like, “No, she’s our girl.”

David Read:
It’s interesting. The first time that you had the material you connected with her in a way that, you know, after a few moments was not hard for you. What made you fall in love with Chloe?

Elyse Levesque:
Her flawedness, for sure. And her fish out of water, like, she didn’t fit in anywhere, like, didn’t know what her place was in this thing. And the feeling of immediate loss that she felt. It’s not at all the same thing but where I was at that point in my life was, as I said, I was experiencing probably the worst heartbreak that I had felt at that point in my life. And it felt like a loss. So, I was able to channel all of that in the character, especially in Air, in those first couple episodes when she loses her father.

David Read:
Absolutely. Terrific guest performance there as well. I really felt over the course of [the show], especially near the end of that second season there, that if the show were to continue, I really think Chloe would have had one of the more broad[er] transformations. Because we don’t know what happened to her when she was sent over there. And when they bring her back, I don’t think they were done with her.

Elyse Levesque:
I don’t think so either. I think they were just getting started.

David Read:
I think so, too. I think that by the end of that show, I really think that she would have been a shadow of whatever she was at the very beginning. Did you get that feeling as well? Or did they say that that what their intention was?

Elyse Levesque:
They never told me. They didn’t tell us a lot. We were kind of… Every episode was a surprise which reminds me of a horrible little story that I have. Don’t let me forget. But they didn’t really tell me much about any of that. I think they did at the beginning of the second season, say, “You are gonna align yourself more with Rush and start to be an asset to him. Because this intelligence that they’ve imbued her with is gonna start to show up and that’s gonna be advantageous for Rush so you two are gonna start working together. You’re gonna have more stuff with him,” which I was so thrilled about. Because I just think he’s an amazing actor.

David Read:
Yes, he is.

Elyse Levesque:
Yes. So good. And just, like, the loveliest human. He plays horrible people but he’s the loveliest guy. So, I feel, like, it would have been really interesting to actually see Chloe switch to some other side and become kind of an enemy, if you will, like, to slowly but surely turn on everyone on Destiny. I think it would have been fascinating for her relationship with Scott and Eli.

David Read:
Having not be in complete and utter control of her own abilities as well. The math angle was really interesting. It wasn’t something I expected. It’s, like, “Wow.” If you’re gonna transform a character and send someone on, like, an undercover or double agent kind of journey, if you will, Chloe would be the one to do it with. And she was one of the ones I was looking forward to seeing evolve.

Elyse Levesque:
[inaudible]

David Read:
Yes, of course. You were talking about a nasty situation that you were in.

Elyse Levesque:
So, when Da[vid]… This is what I’m talking about. They were so naughty, Brad and Robert. We all had this deal in the first season, I think… Because it was, like, a straight to series situation. Often you shoot a pilot and then sometimes people get fired after the pilot and then they [inaudible]. So, I think we all had in our contracts, like, six episodes option where they could keep us for the first six episodes, and after that they could [let you go], if things weren’t working out.

David Read:
Space you.

Elyse Levesque:
So, episode six, I think, is Time. Do you remember that episode?

David Read:
I love it.

Elyse Levesque:
So, they sent that script to all of us. And we all die.

David Read:
Yeah. Pretty much everybody dies.

Elyse Levesque:
We’re all thinking, like, “Oh my God, they’re terminating us,” and, like, “They did it, purposefully.” So, we would all be, like, freaking out, and then, like, “Ha. Jokes on you. We’re bringing everybody back.” And then “You weren’t dead. You’re all staying on.” So sneaky.

David Read:
But it leads to great stories. When that squid comes out the other side of you, and then Chloe version 2.0 goes to the corner and throws up, it’s, like, “Yeah. I can’t say I blame her.” That was visceral.

Elyse Levesque:
That was one of my favorite episodes. That was a really fun one to shoot.

David Read:
It’s great sci-fi. It’s just great science fiction as well. I know by Season Two you would all rearrange your living situation so that you shared, I think, the same street if I’m not mistaken.

Elyse Levesque:
[inaudible] On Melville [Street], in Coal Harbour. I lived there prior to getting [on] Stargate. So, I was already there. They all came to me, to my street.

David Read:
There you go. Who among the cast were you closest to? [Who] did you find yourself drawn to the most?

Elyse Levesque:
We were all pretty close in general. We were very much a family. We would hang out on the weekends, and I remember Season One, myself, Jamil [Walker Smith], Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman, David [Blue], Julie Benson… Who else? Some partners and friends and stuff. Oh, [and] Bradley Stryker [and] Brian [J. Smith]. We all went and rented a cabin in Whistler and just had this debaucherous [inaudible] in a cabin in Whistler. It was so fun. I think I’ve got videos of us all singing Rent, like, [singing Seasons of Love from Rent] and then it’s just, like, the video that just pans around the able. Everyone’s just so happy. We just had such a good time together. It was a really special group of people.

David Read:
Absolutely. One of my favorites is Cloverdale. The dream world where she marries Scott.

Elyse Levesque:
[inaudible] She turns into half [inaudible].

David Read:
Exactly. She’s either becoming a weapon, or some kind of surveillance tool, or something. That episode was just another great sci-fi idea where you can take a dream world and make it a part of the main story while they’re lying on the ramp of the gate, dying. And she’s trying to save his life, and it’s just… The performances across the board with all the cast were stellar. The quality of product that you guys put out over those two seasons was fantastic.

Elyse Levesque:
I agree, yes. It’s a well-made show.

David Read:
Which episodes besides Time stand out to you?

Elyse Levesque:
Still, for me, the one that is the most present in my memory is Air, Part 1 and Part 2 because we took our time filming it so I can remember shooting every scene. I can remember just the days of all of us in the gate room just dying laughing, Louis just cracking jokes. It was just also new so I think when things are new you’re paying closer attention to everything.

David Read:
You’re taking more in.

Elyse Levesque:
You’re taking more in and there was just really… That was kind of the thing that set the tone for the next two years. And it was such a fantastic experience shooting those first two episodes. Those two really stand out. There’s an episode, and I cannot remember the name of it, but it was one of my favorites things to film. It’s in the first season and it’s when I’m having the dream and it’s, like, I’m walking through the ship and then I drop into the tank.

David Read:
Yes. You’re back in the experience again. Absolutely.

Elyse Levesque:
I loved filming that. That was really fun. I got to go get scuba diving lessons.

David Read:
Yeah, you went for a swim.

Elyse Levesque:
And I think it’s a really cool sequence. I remember seeing that and be, like, “Whoa!” I felt so cool having done something like that.

David Read:
Absolutely.

Elyse Levesque:
And then Cloverdale was really great. There’s a lot. Even the finale of the first season has a special place in my heart, like, Eli carrying me around and I’m wounded. That scene between him and I where, you know…

David Read:
I felt so bad for him. Buddy, you are being placed squarely in the friendzone.

Elyse Levesque:
I know. [inaudible] friendzone [inaudible] so hard. But I [think] their friendship was really beautiful.

David Read:
Absolutely it was. And in Season Two you could really see he found his place [and] he settled in. Because Matt was his friend too and he weren’t gonna hurt him. Going under that make up for Epilogue. Was that an experience?

Elyse Levesque:
That wasn’t too bad. I think it looks worse than it was. Because a lot of that was stuff they just put on top of our skin and then they’d kind of smoosh your skin so that it would hold the wrinkles. So, I think we just had a couple little prosthetics. It was [minimal], for me, anyway. Not too bad. And that was cool. That’s something I loved about this show was it let us do so many things. It let us take our characters into territory that you would never get on something that wasn’t sci-fi. It’s, like, on an episode of Friends, it’s just kind of the same thing every week after week after week. Whereas [on] Stargate, it was, like, every episode…

David Read:
It’s a movie.

Elyse Levesque:
Every episode is its own little feature film. But we got to take these characters and put them into situations that were so counterintuitive to what you would come to expect, and… [knocking sound]

David Read:
It’s OK. You’re fine.

Elyse Levesque:
You can come in. I’m just on an interview. That’s OK. I’m almost done. I’ll just turn it this way, so you don’t have to be on camera. Anyway, that’s just, I think, one of the things that’s really cool about being a part of the show like that.

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

Elyse Levesque:
Of course.

David Read:
Scotty0709, “The music videos by Coupla Hot Chicks…Maybe Three were hilarious. Is there ever going to be a new one?”

Elyse Levesque:
No, I think the band has retired. We’re all living in different places. I’m in L.A. One of the girls is in Vancouver. I think one’s in Calgary. We’re all spread all over the place. So, I think it was a moment in time.

David Read:
There you go. May it exist like that.

Elyse Levesque:
Exactly.

David Read:
Elizabeth Lee, “How intense was doing submersion and the water scenes? Looks so well done. I[‘ve] had this pending since I saw those scenes.” So, she was really impressed with the sequence, as we were.

Elyse Levesque:
It looks scarier than it was. Because I think, actually, if I went down and I pushed up I would be outside of the water. So, it looks scarier than it actually was. And I think when I had the whole mouthpiece on there was a breathing apparatus.

David Read:
OK. So, you were good in there?

Elyse Levesque:
I was fine in that. I wasn’t closed in, and it wasn’t super deep, so I felt so safe. There was much more basic stunts that I injured myself doing. Crawling over gravel, like, a hill, I got this horrible kind of road rash sort of thing that turned into a really bad infection. It wasn’t even a stunt. It was just climbing over a hill. I hurt myself doing the dumbest things.

David Read:
It’s the normal stuff that gets you. Eva Lipenska, “What was it like to work with Teryl Rothery on Cedar Cove?”

Elyse Levesque:
She’s the best.

David Read:
She is.

Elyse Levesque:
[I love her] so much. She’s the best. We had so much fun. We would just make each other laugh the whole time. I adored her. I never met her in the Stargate world, but it was pretty cool to get to work together on that.

David Read:
Teresa Mc, “If you had your choice of a role for the new SG series what would it be?” What would you like to do next?

Elyse Levesque:
I would love to see all of these characters come back in some capacity. It just feels so unresolved that I would love to see where they go. And obviously I had such an attachment to Chloe. I’d be down for [inaudible]. That’d be cool.

David Read:
I wouldn’t count SGU… I wouldn’t count those characters out yet. If we can get this thing off the ground with this new project. It’s certainly gonna be its own thing. That’s been stated pretty clearly. But that doesn’t mean that there isn’t room to explore some pieces of the past.

Elyse Levesque:
Right. Well, it’s very much, like, tradition for Brad [Wright] and Robert [C. Cooper] to bring people from the other [shows] into the current one.

David Read:
Absolutely. And I’m always hopeful that we’ll at the very least get some kind of digital animated Season Three or something like that. I still think that that story can be properly told.

Elyse Levesque:
I hear you. I agree.

David Read:
Elyse, I know you gotta go. Thank you so much for taking the time.

Elyse Levesque:
Of course.

David Read:
It was wonderful to have [you]. I’d love to have you back in the future. I have more questions, but this was such a pleasure.

Elyse Levesque:
We can find some time. No worries.

David Read:
Absolutely. You be safe and take care of yourself and you have a good dinner.

Elyse Levesque:
Awesome. You too. Have a good one.

David Read:
Thank you, Elyse. Bye-bye. Elyse Levesque from Stargate Universe. Big thanks to her for joining us. And big thanks to you for tuning in this episode. I have some questions that were left to me but let me get to those in just a moment here. I wanted to let you all know about our giveaway for the month of April. Dial the Gate has partnered with Big J Custom for the month of April to give you a chance to get your very own custom Pop figure. To enter to win one of these items you need to use desktop or laptop computer and visit dialthegate.com. Scroll down to Submit Trivia Questions. Your trivia may be used in a future episode of Dial the Gate, either for our monthly trivia night or for a special guest to ask me in a round of trivia. There’s three slots for trivia. One easy, one medium, and one hard. Only one needs to be filled in but you’re more than welcome to submit up to three. And please note that the submission form does not currently work for mobile devices. Trivia needs to be in before May the 1st, and if you’re the lucky winner I’ll be notifying you via your email to get your address. Be sure to check out our partner’s website for more Stargate related merchandise at bigjcustomsart.com. And Dial the Gate is brought to you every week for free and we do appreciate you watching but if you wanna support the show further buy yourself some of our themed swag. We’re now offering T-shirts, tank tops, sweatshirts and hoodies for all ages, in a variety of sizes and colors at Redbubble and we currently offer 14 designs and hope to add more in the future. The Word Cloud designs have both a solid background or transparent background option. So, you can have some flexibility between choosing a light or dark color. And do keep that in mind when you’re making your selection. Checkout is fast and easy, and you can even use your Amazon or PayPal account. Just visit dialthegate.redbubble.com and thank you so much for your support. Ákos Tamás Nováki, “Any chance all three DeLuise brothers could be on the show at once?” At some point that is my hope, for sure. “And do you know why Jonathan Glassner left the franchise after Season Three?” My understanding, and I could be wrong, is creative differences. Jonathan did have a lot on his plate at the time so it could have been [that he] just had to go with what he could at that point, and he thought that three seasons was good enough for him. I’d love to have him on the show. I’ve been trying to reach out to him without a great deal of success at this stage. But we’ll see what we can do. Another number of requests for specific actors to come on. [We’re] doing what we can. I’ll do what I can for these listed here. I don’t necessarily want to name all the people that I’m getting requests for but yes, we can certainly do what we can to make those happen. I appreciate you tuning in. It means a lot to have you week after week. To those of you who are joining me live, [and] there’s a number of you, thank you for that. Thanks also to Tracy, Keith, Jeremy, Reece, Antony, and Summer, my moderators, for making the show possible. To Linda GateGabber Fury and to Jennifer Kirby. You guys are as always fantastic. Next week we have… Who do we have? Let me have a look here. You think I should know on top of my head. Jay Brazeau will be joining us at 12 p.m. PT on April the 11th. He played Harlan in SG-1 and Lord Protector in Stargate Atlantis. At 2 p.m. we will have David Hewlett joining us for Part Two of our ongoing interviews. On 2 p.m. on April the 11th. And at 4 p.m. PT on April the 11th, Colonel Chekov, Gary Chalk from Stargate SG-1. That’s what we’ve got so far. I’ve got the guest line up finalized for the month of April. I can announce that Robert [C.] Cooper is coming back for, I think… Is it Part Four at this point? We’re gonna talk mostly about Atlantis in that episode. Rising, in particular, and creating the Wraith. Joseph Mallozzi will be joining us near the end of the month to discuss Season Nine of Stargate SG-1. And I am privileged to announce, Carl Binder, writer and executive producer, is gonna be joining us for a pre-recorded interview later this month so I’ll be giving everyone an opportunity to submit questions to him that I can ask him during the pre-recorded show. So be on a lookout for that announcement video where you can put questions in the comments. I think that’s everything that I have here. I always feel like I’m missing something. But I think that’s pretty much it. Thank you again for joining us. My name is David Read for Dial the Gate. We’ll see you on the other side.