Great interview! I have been in talks with Val about interview for like a year now! Ya beat me too it 😂 make it spin! I did know few of the answers you didnt get! 😉 Some of the vests did have wooden blocks in them, some foam rubber and some had real first aid stuff in the SGU vest even!
Thank you so much for passing my questions on to Valerie! That was so cool, David. I love these interviews. So much insight into what goes on behind the scenes. I love it! You're such as good interviewer too. Really great at drawing the guest out with additional questions.
How do you take into account when designing costumes what types of materials and technologies would be available to those characters in the worlds/environments they live? (Like Teyla)
I thought doing Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle) with the offbeat vest, t-shirt, and thermal long sleeve t-shirt as his typical look, for a professor / technical type, and someone so Machiavellian, was a really interesting look, rather than always in a suit jacket. I also liked that Eli Wallace (David Blue) got to be in a very casual college / home / grungy look with the hoodie and t-shirts. (Now that I think of it, I'm not sure what pants and shoes those two had.) But these fit their characters. Overall, Stargate always did a good job of exotic but lived-in, believable but fashionable and unusual, historical or fantasy or modern. Good stuff. And the military costumes for the Stargate personnel made good sense. (I did wonder about the color-coding on the Atlantis team outfits, though. The dark blue and green seemed prone to merge or not show up, and the butter yellow was maybe bright in certain situations. Yet they all needed to work for both camouflage and task identification. I'm not sure there was a good compromise they could have done, an impossible task. Even so, I liked the khaki with the butter yellow and the other color combinations. They looked good.) Teyla's and Ronon's outfits always looked good, helped by the two actors own looks and being able to carry of the costumes so well. (I've always thought Teyla (Rachel Luttrell) was very striking with her cinnamon / coppery natural skin color, plus the hair to match. I had not realized the hair was a wig, though. :)
For SGU, it was great that they are stranded with just what they had on or what they could grab, and then they are stuck with that. It looked rushed and authentic to an emergency situation. (Oh, I forgot my jacket. Or, why did I wear this today, and here we are stuck.) But realistically, they would want changes of clothing and things would wear out over time, plus they'd have to wash clothes and would need something else while their laundry is drying. I wonder if / how the show would have thought to handle that over time, since Stargate did a pretty good job of most things, even within the bounds of an identifiable weekly costume.
Great interview! I have been in talks with Val about interview for like a year now! Ya beat me too it 😂 make it spin! I did know few of the answers you didnt get! 😉 Some of the vests did have wooden blocks in them, some foam rubber and some had real first aid stuff in the SGU vest even!
Thank you so much for passing my questions on to Valerie! That was so cool, David. I love these interviews. So much insight into what goes on behind the scenes. I love it! You're such as good interviewer too. Really great at drawing the guest out with additional questions.
I am drunk right now and watching it second time, and it is still very enjoyable interview. Please do more interviews with people behind the scenes
OK, but only because you asked nicely!
David, Thank you so much for asking my question! Really appreciate it! I loved Valarie's perspective, insight and talent!🥰🤗
I sure hope Amazon will give us a new Stargate with Brad Wright et al., and I'd love to see Stargate film and TV available on Amazon again.
I was gonna set a reminder for this but it'll just be a 1 min preview vid like the last and I'll be heartbroken AGAIN
Oh dry up.
How do you take into account when designing costumes what types of materials and technologies would be available to those characters in the worlds/environments they live? (Like Teyla)
I thought doing Nicholas Rush (Robert Carlyle) with the offbeat vest, t-shirt, and thermal long sleeve t-shirt as his typical look, for a professor / technical type, and someone so Machiavellian, was a really interesting look, rather than always in a suit jacket. I also liked that Eli Wallace (David Blue) got to be in a very casual college / home / grungy look with the hoodie and t-shirts. (Now that I think of it, I'm not sure what pants and shoes those two had.) But these fit their characters. Overall, Stargate always did a good job of exotic but lived-in, believable but fashionable and unusual, historical or fantasy or modern. Good stuff. And the military costumes for the Stargate personnel made good sense. (I did wonder about the color-coding on the Atlantis team outfits, though. The dark blue and green seemed prone to merge or not show up, and the butter yellow was maybe bright in certain situations. Yet they all needed to work for both camouflage and task identification. I'm not sure there was a good compromise they could have done, an impossible task. Even so, I liked the khaki with the butter yellow and the other color combinations. They looked good.) Teyla's and Ronon's outfits always looked good, helped by the two actors own looks and being able to carry of the costumes so well. (I've always thought Teyla (Rachel Luttrell) was very striking with her cinnamon / coppery natural skin color, plus the hair to match. I had not realized the hair was a wig, though. :)
For SGU, it was great that they are stranded with just what they had on or what they could grab, and then they are stuck with that. It looked rushed and authentic to an emergency situation. (Oh, I forgot my jacket. Or, why did I wear this today, and here we are stuck.) But realistically, they would want changes of clothing and things would wear out over time, plus they'd have to wash clothes and would need something else while their laundry is drying. I wonder if / how the show would have thought to handle that over time, since Stargate did a pretty good job of most things, even within the bounds of an identifiable weekly costume.
david! good idea to pass along! cassandra, and the young clone of oniel join stargate!