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"  If you think Katee Sackhoff stopped kicking ass when Battlestar Galactica ended (on which she played fan-favorite Starbuck), you&amp;#039;re sorely mistaken. She simply traded in the futuristic sci-fi setting for a gun, a badge, and the sweeping vistas of Durant, Wyoming, on A&amp;amp;amp;E&amp;#039;s series Longmire. Sackhoff, who is also set to star alongside Vin Diesel in next month&amp;#039;s Riddick, plays the Philadelphia transport sheriff&amp;#039;s deputy Victoria &amp;quot;Vic&amp;quot; Moretti and brings the show some much-needed female strength.  In anticipation of Longmire&amp;#039;s second-season finale (airing on August 26), we talked to the beautiful and talented Sackhoff about fighting in the nude, selling Riddick writer-director David Twohy on &amp;quot;chaps and a corset,&amp;quot; and which female superhero she&amp;#039;d &amp;quot;sell her first born&amp;quot; to play. ESQUIRE.COM: Last time we talked, you told me that you were being visited by a ghost. Are you still being haunted? KATEE SACKHOFF: No, it&amp;#039;s gone, which is really, really interesting. Last night, I was actually thinking about this because one of my closest friends just passed and I was actually lying in bed thinking that now, at this point, I&amp;#039;m like praying that something comes and it&amp;#039;s him and he&amp;#039;s just like, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m fine. Purgatory&amp;#039;s awesome!&amp;quot; [Laughs]  ESQ: Let&amp;#039;s get into Longmire. A recent episode was called &amp;quot;Tuscan Red,&amp;quot; and the plot involves fracking. You just can&amp;#039;t get away from the word &amp;quot;frak&amp;quot; can you? KS: I know, I know. I did an episode of CSI about the exact same thing as well and I was like, &amp;quot;Come on, people!&amp;quot; You can tell when writers are fans of Battlestar Galactica because they think it&amp;#039;s funny when I say it.  ESQ: I wouldn&amp;#039;t be doing my job if I didn&amp;#039;t ask about this infamous naked gunfight scene that you mentioned during San Diego Comic-Con. KS: Oh gosh.  ESQ: Are they saving that for the season finale? Is that how they&amp;#039;re selling the episode? KS: No, no. I don&amp;#039;t think it&amp;#039;s the finale. It&amp;#039;s coming. It&amp;#039;s definitely... There&amp;#039;s definitely me naked with a gun. The rest of it was pretty tongue-in-cheek, but it was definitely me and a gun, naked. ESQ: Where do you keep the gun?  KS: Right? [Laughs] You&amp;#039;re going to have to tune in and find out. ESQ: Why does Vic get so mad when someone calls her &amp;quot;Vicky&amp;quot;? KS: You know, it&amp;#039;s a question that will be answered in the last episode and it will all make sense why she doesn&amp;#039;t like being called &amp;quot;Vicky.&amp;quot; Yeah, because it finally made sense to me. ESQ: Is Vic going to get one of those great flashbacks that we see Walt have every now and then? KS: There&amp;#039;s no flashback, but something from the past is definitely haunting Vic. ESQ: Will we also get to see why Vic&amp;#039;s relationship with her husband was so strained when we first met him?  KS: Michael Mosley, who is phenomenal and a good friend of mine, is just great in the role and he has the ability to take a character that has been written one way and make him incredibly sympathetic. I think that&amp;#039;s one of the reasons that they&amp;#039;ve continued to write for him and keep him around. The way he and I have played those scenes, we&amp;#039;ve tried to give it a bit more texture than was on the page because we do like each other and we are friends, and I enjoy having him in Sante Fe. I call it me trying to &amp;quot;Michael Trucco it.&amp;quot; Michael was only meant to be around on Battlestar for two episodes, and I switched some dialogue around and all of a sudden he&amp;#039;s one of the final five. I just say that it&amp;#039;s the Michael Effect in my life these days. ESQ: We know Vic is from Philadelphia and there&amp;#039;s a mention of the Eagles at one point, but what&amp;#039;s the deal with the hockey puck? KS: The hockey puck was just me wanting to give her more Philly because we didn&amp;#039;t have a lot of Philly in the beginning. I wanted to embrace the whole fish-out-of-water trying to grasp onto something that she feels comfortable with. I thought, having four brothers back in Philadelphia, of course she&amp;#039;s a sports fan. ESQ: Her relationship with Walt is very father-daughter. Is your relationship with Robert Taylor similar? Is he like the father figure on set?  KS: To a certain extent, yeah, he is, but at the same time there&amp;#039;s really not that much of an age difference between us. I guess he could have been my father if he had me at, like, fifteen. He has this very calming way and has done a brilliant job of setting the tone on set. ESQ: Now that the election is over, are we going to get to see that Branch is just a good guy deep down? KS: Yeah, I do. I think he&amp;#039;s one of those nature-versus-nurture situations. He&amp;#039;s fighting that and I think that his father wants him to be something he doesn&amp;#039;t necessarily want to be and he&amp;#039;s having his own internal struggle about that. ESQ: The show brings in great ratings for A&amp;amp;amp;E, but it still kind of flies under the radar. KS: I don&amp;#039;t know. I&amp;#039;m not sure what that is. You know, a lot of shows fly under the radar for the first couple seasons and then become successful. It doesn&amp;#039;t necessarily have any bearing on the success of the show or how much the network is behind it. People tend to talk about what&amp;#039;s shiny and what&amp;#039;s controversial, and I don&amp;#039;t think that our show has that. I think that our show is very steady and very consistent and it fills a void. That&amp;#039;s why we get the ratings we get, but we don&amp;#039;t have massive amounts of blood and guts and sex. We don&amp;#039;t have controversy on our show. We just have a very steadily good show. ESQ: A really well told story in a gorgeous setting. KS: Right. Right. ESQ: Is that one of the things that attracted you to the show?  KS: What attracted me to the show was that it really does kind of suck you in. It&amp;#039;s got a really nice mixture of serialization and procedural. Enough even that my parents can sit down and watch the show and it&amp;#039;s not too crazy for them, but at the same time my nephews love the show because they still love running around pretending they&amp;#039;re cops and robbers. It has that generational spread that it&amp;#039;s covering pretty nicely.      ESQ: You&amp;#039;re the newcomer to David Twohy&amp;#039;s series of Riddick films. What was that experience like? KS: Not as hard as it was being really the only woman on set. I joke about how I felt a lot of pressure for this role because it&amp;#039;s not like someone can walk away from it and say, &amp;quot;The movie was great, but the girl sucked!&amp;quot; and people will ask &amp;quot;Which one?&amp;quot; [Laughs] I am the one they&amp;#039;re talking about. It&amp;#039;s one of those things where the estrogen quota is resting on my shoulders and I think that&amp;#039;s where the pressure came in. I wanted to give her this strength, but also make her interesting and sexy. I wanted people to feel drawn to her and understand her, but also be kind of confused by her. So there was just a lot there that I was trying to accomplish.  ESQ: You get to be badass and try to chase down Vin Diesel. How does one go about chasing down a Vin Diesel? KS: You just do your best to keep up, basically. Vin is phenomenal. I truly do love him tremendously and we had so much fun together. My only hope is that I&amp;#039;m in the fourth installment and we actually get to fight. That would be nice. ESQ: Were you excited that David was going back to the R-rated roots of Pitch Black? KS: Oh, yeah, 100-percent. Truthfully, I think that&amp;#039;s what makes these movies great. I remember watching these kinds of movies as a kid. It just takes me back to the days of Die Hard and Predator and these movies that I kind of felt I shouldn&amp;#039;t be watching, but my dad was like, &amp;quot;Just don&amp;#039;t tell your mother.&amp;quot; So I love this. I love that when you take that PG-13 off the table and say, &amp;quot;This is what we&amp;#039;re going to do,&amp;quot; everything becomes fair game and you really go for it. I walked up to David Twohy at one point when my wardrobe was very masculine. I was in the same clothes as pretty much all of the guys. It really didn&amp;#039;t show my figure and femininity at all, so I sat down with David and said, &amp;quot;You know, I really would love to have wardrobe make Dahl something a bit more sexy.&amp;quot; And, literally, the words out of his mouth were, &amp;quot;You don&amp;#039;t have to convince me to sell sex. Show me what you got, kid!&amp;quot; So we came back with chaps and a corset and he said, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m sold. Let&amp;#039;s do this.&amp;quot; ESQ: There are a lot of superhero movies being made right now and Vin has been teasing that he&amp;#039;s going to end up in Guardians of the Galaxy. Is there a female superhero that you would love to play if you had the chance? KS: I love Harley Quinn. I do. I just love it. It&amp;#039;s not been done before. It&amp;#039;s this fantastic mix. I mean, it&amp;#039;s like the female Joker. Who wouldn&amp;#039;t want to do that? Quite potentially \u2014 it&amp;#039;s not around so I wouldn&amp;#039;t feel the weight of it \u2014 I&amp;#039;d probably sell my first born at this point to do that. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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