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Fri, Jun 15, 2001 05:45 PM PDT by Kate
O'Hare
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) -
"Buffy
the Vampire Slayer" regular James Marsters, who recently received a
Saturn Award for Best Supporting Actor in a TV Series for his role as
British vampire Spike, just wrapped production in Vancouver, Canada, on
"Into the Labyrinth," an "Andromeda" episode set to air in late November.
Marsters plays the foppish, decadent, but dangerous Archduke
Charlemange Bolivar, a character introduced off-screen in an earlier
"Andromeda" episode called "The Honey Offering." Bolivar is a Nietzschean,
part of a race of genetically engineered super-humans along with Tyr
Anasazi (Keith Hamilton Cobb), a member of the crew of the futuristic
starship Andromeda.
Those who thought that all Nietzscheans were very tall and bulkily
muscular -- like Cobb -- will get to see a different side of the race, and
Marsters.
While Spike's signature bleached-blond hair is still somewhat there,
Wolfe promises a new look at the actor for his devoted fans, and a new
sound.
"It's not completely different," he says, "in that it's a guy with an
edge, a bit of a deceptive exterior, but it's a decidedly different
character. It will be fun for the 'Buffy' fans to see him do other
things."
"He has a very moderate accent. It has a vaguely upper-class feel to
it, but it's not specifically British."
"The character is Nietzschean, but he's not a big, steroid case like
some of them. He's still a genetically engineered person, but he's been
genetically engineered for different things than Tyr."
"There's a scene between him and Tyr where he basically says that Tyr's
pride of Nietzscheans took this whole physical perfection thing way too
far, and they really should have been breeding themselves for cunning,
diplomacy and table manners, which is what he's been bred for, clearly.
His table manners are impeccable."
"He's definitely decadent, but still a very cunning and tricky
character."
Also considered for the role, says Wolfe, was former "Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine" star Alexander Siddig, but he was busy in Ireland on
the feature film "Reign of Fire."
"When you've got three names like that for the part," says Wolfe, "it's
like, 'Well, Bruce, Sid or James Marsters ...,' you should have so many
problems."
"Andromeda" plans to have 10 episodes for the new season in the can by
the end of June (the cutoff date for a possible actors' strike). Other
guest stars include William B. Davis, who played the Cigarette Smoking Man
on "The
X-Files"; "Lone Gunmen" star Bruce Harwood; and "First
Wave" co-star Roger Cross.
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"It doesn't look exactly like Spike hair,"
says Robert Hewitt Wolfe, the executive producer of the syndicated sci fi
series "Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda." "It's a little more relaxed, the
hair ... we got his shirt off, though."
Wolfe reveals that the role was originally
written for Bruce Campbell, who worked with "Andromeda" star Kevin Sorbo
on 
