Behind the scene on SGA ep The Queen

MGM has posted on its Stargate Home Page a behind the scenes look at the goings-on on the set of the Wraith base Stargate Atlantis episode The Queen. The author of the piece is chatting to Rachel Luttrell (Teyla Emmagan)

Ne Multus: "Stargate Atlantis’ final year has proved the most challenging of its run for actress Rachel Luttrell. Having welcomed her son into the world during the last weeks of filming on season four, the start of season five found her adjusting to the rigors of motherhood – whilst also being on set full time. Then, as if that were not challenging enough, along came the writers with a rip-roaring plot for an episode called “The Queen.”

“They mentioned it to me during a dinner out with our network executives,” Luttrell explains, sitting in her trailer during a break in filming later in the season. “I was sitting beside Alan [McCullough], who wrote the script. I was talking to him, and for the first time we were getting into personal stuff, life and all that – and I thought ‘Gosh, this is a lovely fellow’. And then he mentioned that he was writing a script for me. Of course, I was excited… and thenhe mentioned that I was going to be a Wraith queen,” she laughs, “and I thought, ‘You’ve got to be kidding me!’” Read more >>