Fandom/Pairing: BSG, Adama/Roslin
Rating: PG
Word count: 2790
Summary: As the New Year arrives, it’s time for Laura to make some good resolutions. A look at the time between the settlement on New Caprica and Founder’s Day.
A/N: Written as a Christmas present for
Her wish was “A/R fic - not picky about the plot as long as these conditions are met: 1) must be happy 2) Laura either doesn't have cancer or it's cured.”
( On to the fic )
Title : Pas de Deux
Author : Claraon
Fandom/Pairing : BSG, A/R.
Rating: MA
Summary: It is a dance they’re doing, swaying between professional and personal. Set at the beginning of Season 4.
A/N: Written for
loveintheloo
( Read more... )
( 4 by 4 makes 16 )
Rating: T
Pairings: A/R
Spoilers: Up to the end.
Summary: Not!Dead Laura makes fangirls happy.
Disclaimer: All publicly recognizable people and events are totally intended.
A/N: This is my way of saying thanks to you all for making this fandom so awesome. Was originally written for

( Somewhere Over The (fangirl) Rainbow )
Rating: K
Word count: 735
Spoilers: None.
Summary: It was the toes’ fault if he had stopped listening to whatever the captain was saying ten minutes into the briefing.
THANKS TO
( Read more... )
Title: Behind the Bars
Spoilers: None whatsoever.
Summary: Brig smut.
Rating:M
A/N: Follows Release. Sort of. Unashamed PWP.
( Here you go )
Title: Release
Spoilers: After Dirty Hands.
Summary: Bill gets his hands on the security video of Laura's interrogation of Baltar.
Rating:T
A/N: This is a sequel of sorts to (de)Tension. You might want to read that first. And thanks to
( “I want you to take him, and toss him out the nearest airlock!” )
Mary: “Ooh I’m scared! We took some photos together, they didn’t know who was who. She was just green with envy.”
Mary: “Very good.”
Mary: “What was my favourite costume? Of Laura’s?”
Mary: “Favourite costume of Laura’s was really the first season Armani suit. The original navy blue with the buckle on the side, and a skirt. I kept asking for more Armani, and they said “but where would we get our money?” and I said “well where are you getting it for those Cylon girls?” Tricia would come on, and then Lucy. Lucy! [mimes huge wardrobe] Really! I wanted to know how somehow the Cylon girls find a shop. Why wouldn’t the President know what that shop is? It’s really not fair. In the pilot, in the original script I was very excited, but then they took it away. There was actually a shopping mall ship. I thought, “great! I’ll be ill prepared to be a President, I wouldn’t have the wardrobe, but as soon as I had to do it, then I could just go shopping,” but then they took it out. “
Fangirls: “Aww”
Mary: “I know! And then, every time I started to get really kind of crabby about my lack of clothing, they would remind me, they, David, Ron, the costume designer, everyone would remind me that Laura, it would be the last thing on her mind. And I said “right, sorry, little Mary was slipping through.” So that was my favourite one. I think my favourite costume, the costume that I have to say, when I put it one I really, I just couldn’t believe that my life had taken me there, was the white wedding in Dances with Wolves. Because I was getting married to Kevin Cosner! Like [Green for bears?] remember that show? Do you have that in England? Or maybe you’re too young! So yeah, I think that suit, that first Armani suit. I asked for that suit and they said I could have it and then turned around and auctioned it. So everybody go online and send a message to whoever got my suit and tell them to give it back to me. Does that answer your question?
Fangirl [something I can’t hear, sorry]
Other fangirl: “Hi there Mary. I would just like to take a step out of the sci fi universe for a second. I’d like to ask a couple of Dances with Wolves questions. Firstly, I would like to ask about learning the Lakota language, if it was phonetically […]”
Mary: “I had the great fortune to be cast early enough to go do some research and then they fortunately gave us language coaches, so that as soon as I was cast, I was sent an audio tape (it was a long time ago). I had all of my lines… this lovely woman, who actually played the Chief’s wife, her name was Doris Leader Charge, she has since past away, but she was this lovely woman who used to laugh around the fire, an older woman. She had this huge smile and she was loads of fun. So she recorded everyone’s lines and I had a couple of weeks in New York to work on them, and then when I got there, we had three weeks of rehearsal. The good news was that I was very good with languages.
The very first day of rehearsal, one of the things we did in the morning was to ride bare back. It was not good for me. And I was the only gal, and most of them were Native Americans. So, the very first day, we took off and I was [mimes holding on] “Uh! You gotta be kidding me!” The guy who was helping me was like “it’s ok, you’ll get the hang of it.” He said “ok, let’s go kick your horse” [mimes again] I had dirt, I couldn’t see, it was like I needed wipers. So the Indian boys, my friends, renamed me Dust In Her Face. I was actually called Dust In Her Face for the entire shoot, and I had read in a book that when you earn an actual Lakota name it’s a compliment. So I said “ok, that’s a good start,” then in the afternoon we had language class and I was the best student, so I got them back.
And then I didn’t shoot for weeks, so, for a long long time, I was around people who spoke all kinds of Native American languages, but the roots sounds were all the same. They were very close to a placement that I knew was sort of Mongolian or Chinese, or whatever, and I knew where it was placed, and I knew that much and then I started listening to them. By the time I talked in the movie I was confident about it. And I still know a few lines. Want me to tell you one?”
Fangirls: “YEES”
Mary: “I don’t know why I remember this one, but it is [sorry guys, don’t speak Lakota]. You know what that means? “I love it here!”, no it means “Someday I’m going to play Laura Roslin.”
*Fangirl laugh*
“What it really means is “I am missing my husband ,” which I am. “
Fangirl: [question about her Dances With Wolves hairstyle] “What was the most arduous process, how to prepare it to act, or controlling it to get home?”
Mary: “I never touched it! I didn’t even look at it. I just went to bed. I got back the next morning and they just did a little more if they were all flat. The idea in the book, the writer had this description of her with this wild huge unruly hair with sticks in it, and grass. We tried that, and did a camera test on it, with sticks, and the studio didn’t really think that was a leading lady look… So they did about 6 camera tests on me trying to get the hair and the makeup right because I had to look like me, but me having been on the prairie for a long time, but not wearing makeup, so it was a really tricky thing. The hairdo actually ended up being Kevin Cosner saying “Bigger! No like that! Oh I like that thing there. Perfect!” [miming] . That’s what happened. “
Fangirl: “Just a final quick question, there is a sequel novel to the film, and there is often talk about a film sequel. If it went ahead, is it something you would consider being a part of?”
Mary: “Well, I don’t know that it would be the right situation. I know something about the sequel, I love the writer. But I think that where it takes place and when it takes place would be a very difficult thing for me. So I’m not really sure. We’ll see how it evolves. So far I don’t think it’s quite the right piece to be put together.”
Fangirl: “Thank you.”
Mary: “You’re welcome.”
Mary: “Oh! Oklahoma!”
Fangirls: “Yay!”
Mary: “Go ahead. I can listen and drink. Really well.”
Mary: “What I was trying to find out… and it wasn’t really all my idea. Ron had kind of a similar sensation that this was a woman who had a secret, somewhat secret love life. That’s what you’re referring to, right? One of the reasons it felt to me was because when I read the pilot, it was clear that Laura was a woman who had some kind of a shadow, that she hadn’t been fully out there, for many reasons. So, what was interesting to me about it was, having been in a position of being a outstanding teacher who was handpicked by Adar to be Secretary of Education, having reached that, and then gotten caught in that position that I think are traditionally for women. Hopefully we’re growing out of that now, almost minute by minute, is that we get caught in sub positions of power, and quite often the sexuality interferes, and women don’t quite fully become what they can be as leaders but they become kind of secondary leaders through to the male leader, and quite often there’s romance. Does that make sense?
So I thought that that would be interesting to think that that’s where she started, but her true destiny, her true karma landed her in a true position of power; that she then had to come out of her shell and make decisions, and ultimately end up with a real love.”
Fangirls: “Woohoo!”
Mary: “But then of course I was making the huge assumption, right at the beginning, that Eddie and I would end up being romantically involved!”
Fangirls: “Woohoo!”
Mary: “But that’s because Eddie told me we had to, even before we started, so I was just following his orders [salute]. Does that answer your question?”
Mary: “You get a lot out of me!”
Other fangirl: “How hard was it to stuff all of your hair into that bald cap?”
Mary: “Very very, very very difficult. For about five minutes, I thought about shaving it.”
Fangirls: “Noooo!”
Mary: “Oh my gosh! Woo! I think I knew this was going to be the collective response. I couldn’t figure out quite what to do and I didn’t want, it didn’t really make sense to cut it. It was actually easier because it was long, because then you take it, you wrap it, and you pin it. That’s the first step. Then you put a stocking cap over that, you put it really tight. And then, every time I wore the bald cap it was brand new bald cap, there were disposable. You can get a finer component in the bald cap if you make it just one time only. They put a lot of money and time into making this real, so first we would do this thing called “blenders” which sort of keeps this area [around the forehead]… Oh no, we’d only do that when I wore the scarf.
But it took us 2 and ½, 3 and ½ , sometimes 4 hours to get it all on, and then a couple of hours to take off. At the very beginning, the taking off became problematic because what we would do to get it off would get then in my hair, and we couldn’t shampoo that out. And I had to shoot other scenes, we were in the middle of shooting episodes that had flashbacks in them, so they needed my hair back. It was kind of…wild. But, it was so worth it, because they were geniuses at it, and it felt very real to me. It was quite a process.”
Fangirl: “Thank you.”
Mary: “Hello!”
liverpool_ruth : “I’d like to ask about something that’s not related to Battlestar Galactica. I’d like to ask about the American Daughter. I ended up with “You’re sixteen” stuck in the head, the song that you sing. ”
Mary: “Wow. [starts singing] Wow. Wendy Wasserstein gave me my first opportunity to star on Broadway, in the Heidi Chronicles. She was a beautiful spirit who understood women almost like no writer I’ve ever worked with. First of all, we always had to sing. And it doesn’t matter if you can’t sing , because women sing, you know what I mean? Anyway, it was a wonderful experience. ”
[comment I can’t hear] “Thank you .”
Mary: “Oh, that’s so great!”
Mary: “It was so much fun. It’s ridiculous that they canceled it. How could we all be having so much fun with a show, and they take it off? It was wonderful to work with Jean. She’s a ? actress, she is a ? comedian, a beautiful woman, a great friend, everything about her is great. The writers couldn’t o been sweeter, funnier, smarter… As a matter of fact, they were a little too smart. I think that’s kind of why we lost the show. The whole thing was great. It felt like we were just defining these women, and then it ended. It was kind of called the American Ab Fab, but, they’re now doing a version of Ab Fab, the woman who created it here is doing an American one. But I think Jean and I are a bit old.”
Fangirls:“NOOOOOO”
Mary: “I was hoping you’d say that. I was just fishing. You know, we’re actually perfect for it.”
Mary: “Thank you!”
Mary: “When I first let her feel it?”
Mary: “It’s really interesting. It’s a great question, because the idea for Laura was just absolutely incomprehensible from the beginning. Because she had no idea how to do that. How she would be able to maintain this position as well as to open emotionally to this man. Especially where they were at the beginning, as you know…. Let’s see. This must have been in Season 3. They’re all mixed up for me, you know better than I do. But there was a moment where Laura was very sick, when she gave Bill Adama his Admiral’s wings. I get goose bumps just thinking about it because suddenly I felt deeply that, in that moment, Laura was in love with Bill. And I remember after the scene, thinking “I wonder if that was visible.”
This was the first time she actually felt it. I mean, she felt it before but she denied it. I think it was the first time she was vulnerable enough and so clearly wanting to give him his wings. And when you’re ready to give, that’s when you’re in love. That’s when it was.”
[At this point I stand up and go around to ask questions, so the recording gets rocky. Sorry about that]
Mary:”The writers won! I didn’t want to do that. At all. No, I never wanted to pick up a gun. But, of course, you know, you can’t always have what you want. And they really needed that to happen. So for me, I had to work very very very very very hard on, again, recommitting to the survival of the human race. [Sorry again, all we can hear is my crazy whisperings with englishwannabe and
maudvandutch. You don’t want to read that.]
Mary: "That was her name? I loved playing her, Emily Rossum was a lot of fun. [something like that]
Fangirls:" WOOHOO!"
Mary: "I have to talk about it! The reason I have to talk about it, thank you for bringing it up, is that I don’t think it had ever been done. Well probably not the first time, but quite often, certainly in American television we don’t see a woman of my age naked. You know what I mean? The image was kind of liberating. I love that Ron wanted to do it. It was Ron. He said, “if it’s ok with you, just, underneath the blanket, the wig’s gone, the clothes are gone, just full out woman,” and I said “Oh, I like you Ron, we should do a show together!” Anyway, thank you."
Mary: "You know it’s funny, that’s what I’ll be remembered for. The bald lady under the blanket. With Edward James Olmos."
Fangirls:" Woohoo!"
Mary: "Who was giggling. It was so funny. Oh my goodness, you know, I know actors often say this, but when you have to do a scene that even remotely resembles a love scene… You would think that actors would just do it and they were just so cool, but nobody is ever cool. There’s always giggling, if you’re lucky, or there is this terrible tension, you know what I mean?
I was wearing that 1940s bathing suit. It had a little skirt, and I thought the whole thing was going to fall apart, so we came up all wrapped up in robes, came on an jumped underneath the blanket."
Mary: "Well, I can’t say too much because there could be some spoilers"
Fangirls (and boys): "Woooh!"
Mary: "I can’t tell you certain things, but one of the things that Ron discussed with me at our first meeting was that the cancer was, as you know when she talked about her mother, that’s a big part of the back story that ever came out, is that this was a woman who was living a life, taking care of her mother for a very long time, and then living a very seemingly public life as a Secretary of Education, while having a secret affair. That’s sort of where she was for a long time. And prior to that, I can’t speak about because you may see some of it. We’ll talk about it next time."
Mary: "Thank you."
Me (
Mary: "Hi!"
Me: "I have two questions, if it’s ok. First, the beginning of the 4th season has been getting darker and darker for Laura, with the return of her cancer, I was wondering if you could talk about the emotional commitment required for those difficult scenes."
Mary: "Yes. It’s really hard to explain if you haven’t acted the kind of negotiation that has to go on when you’re playing someone ill. What I had to do for Laura, because, when I was first offered the role the first question I asked Ron was when would the cancer go away? Because I figured it’s science fiction, it could go just like that, there could be a way, right? To find a cure for cancer. And he told me, “well, it doesn’t”. I just assumed they would want me around for a bit because Eddie and I were the main, that they would want to keep her alive, right?
Then I had to really think about it, to be honest, because I thought it’s one thing to do it in a movie, you know, the amount of time that you have to commit to feeling that, but it’s another thing to do it over a long time. And yet that was what we wanted; a person who was constantly struggling with that physical situation, and that, for a great deal of the series, had to keep it private.
So I had to figure out a way to literally trick myself into believing it and not believing it. Because sometimes, your metabolism responds to your imagination. Not that I think that you are responsible for creating diseases and that people who have them should uncreate them, I don’t think that at all. I do feel though, that I had to work hard to not feel constantly tired after pretending to be. I developed all these techniques of jumping in and out of her.
I have this really wonderful medical doctor, MD, in Bevery Hills. Everybody calls him the “Sikh to the stars” and he’s actually this wonderful Jewish guy who ran to became a Sikh in India, and then he came back as this Sikh Indian Jewish doctor, and he’s wonderful. I went to see him right away, and he deals with a lot of actors, so he understand the process. See, I said “process” and not “prawcess”? Because if I said “prawcess” you wouldn’t know what I meant.
So he talked to me about how to do that, how to kind of trick my metabolism back so that I wouldn’t be drained and it really really helped me. And I went to my shrink. You do say shrink, right?"
Fangirls: "Yeah"
Mary:" Say it louder: do you say shrink?"
Fangirls: "YES!"
Fangirl at the front row: "But we don’t all have them!"
Other fangirl at the front row: "Some of us do…"
Mary:" What honey?"
Fangirl: "I said we don’t all have them."
Mary: "Oh! Really?"
[General laughter]
Mary: "But don’t you have national health? You can’t just go? Listen, the economy as it is, I’ve had to give mine up too, so… The first thing that went was my shrink, and the second thing is I started dyeing my own hair and it was a disaster! This was actually during the writers’ strike. I said to my husband “I’m so sorry I can’t do it any more,” and he said “Oh God, what are we gonna do?” and I said “You know, I can do this, I can be calm and sane and I can do it.” And I am doing it! Not very well, but the hair, I went back to my hairdresser. It was terrible [giggles]. I had big chunks [mimes]. And people were like “Oh! Who is she? My grandmother?”
Ok. I’m sorry. Where did I go? What did you ask?"
Me: "Er… Something about emotional commitment?"
[General laughter]
Mary:" Wooh! Clearly I’m very committed to myself! Anyway. I had a lot of help, is the answer to your question. It had to be dealt with consciously, and I was very grateful that people didn’t think I was crazy. Like, when I asked my doctor “how do I do this?”, he understood that it could be a problem and he had ideas."
Me: "I have a second question. Edward James Olmos talked in another convention about that time where they had to shut down production for awhile because you were laughing…"
Mary:" Really? I’m sorry, what did he say?"
Me: "Just that you were laughing and they had to shut down…"
Mary:" I was. I don’t know if they really had to shut down production. Is he talking about the time with Katee and I?"
Me: "I don’t know."
Mary:" Oh there were many times!"
Someone at the front row: "Eddie said three hours."
Mary: "Oh no! No no no no. Let me tell you something about Mr Olmos. And everybody that’s going to Bonn[cheers in audience] can tell him. You can quote me. We spent more time waiting for him to come out of that trailer!
No, no no. Not three hours. Well… I was laughing, you know. It started with Katee and I. She finally got it together for her close-ups, then she lost it again, then it was my close-up, and she couldn’t pull it together. And it was just a whole series of events, it wasn’t just my laughter. But it’s very difficult. If I lose it, it can cost you some money!"
Me: "Thank you."
Mary: "Thank you."
Fanboy: "Hi Mary."
Mary: "Hello!"
Fanboy: "How much input did you have in your character?"
Mary: "I actually had a good, healthy amount, to be honest. They were wonderful. They really allowed me to at least offer my ideas. They weren’t always accepted, but they were always respected, until one time, David Eick, our executive producer and I were emailing, arguing about Laura Roslin, and we were deep into this conversation and then Ron came on and said “Mary. David. That’s enough,” and I was like “Oh my God! Big Brother!” I had no idea he was participating. And David didn’t say anything. And Ron went [mimes typing]“Mary, you will play Laura as written. David, you will enjoy watching, and I, as always, am proud to be working with you both. Ron.” [mimes looking around] Very funny!
[laughter]
But I did have a lot of control, and it was so wonderfully collaborative that there were times where the actors, I personally, and James Callis, there were a few of us that were very insistent on our ideas at least being heard. But I felt deeply respected by the writers, and I respected them, and it’s really interesting: I think we’re all getting into trouble in the shows we moved on to, because we’re all emailing our writers and we’re like “What? You’re not listening to me? I know I’m just a guest but I’m playing her.” It was wonderful."
Fanboy: "What was your reaction when you read the scripts, when they get to Earth and it’s a wasteland …What was your reaction when you read that?"
Mary: "To be perfectly honest with you, I think I knew well before we got the script that was kind of where we heading. When I first found out about I thought, if this isn’t Earth, what then? Who have we been and what… Do you know what I mean?
But, by that point we’d been with Ron long enough to trust him completely, that wherever he was taking us was actually better than most of what we imagined. And it’s true. I’ll tell you, the script that blew my mind is the last episode. Honestly? That blew my mind. It went around."
Fanboy: "Ok the last question, I’m going to say it now because then I’ll be too scared to say it: so who was better in bed, Edward James Olmos, or Kevin Cosner?"
Fangirls: "Wooh!"
Mary: "Turn to the screen: I don't know Mary should we tell them?
Women don’t kiss and tell. Well no we did different things… [giggles] I just felt quite fortunate. I’ve had quite a variety of leading men in my long career, and I honestly cannot say. They were both great!"
Fanboy: "Thank you very much. We’re looking forward to see you in Grey’s Anatomy."
Mary: "I think she’s my Doppelganger."
Mary: "I also lost my mother to cancer, and that was one of the reasons that to play that and find a right way to do it. So I really appreciate that comment."
Epic thanks to
Spoilers: Unfinished Business
Summary: New Caprica, weed, and a directionally challenged Laura Roslin. With Sexings.
Rating:M
A/N: This is for
( On to the fic )( On to the fic )</div>
Rating: T
Summary: The first time they meet, she sees him, but doesn't hear him. Slightly AU.
A/N: My Secret Santa fic for mamabelladonna said "Part One of Two". Here is the second part! (What, me? Slow?). You might want to read Part 1 first. Thanks to
Also, I took the liberty of assuming that John Donne, like Gin Tonic, was a constant in the universe.
( Later, during the many meetings in his quarters, she learns his smell. )
I think I have more or less all, apart from baby!fic and humor. Anyway, I hope you'll enjoy it, and Merry (even if orthodox) Christmas!
Title: As Stiff Twin Compasses Are Two
Rating: T
Summary: The first time they meet, she sees him, but doesn't hear him.
A/N: The French Lieutenant's Woman is on Adama's shelf. True fact. Since "French" cannot be a nationality, I took the liberty of assuming it was a Colonial word for "smart and sexy" (which is not a far stretch). I also took the liberty of assuming that John Donne, like Gin Tonic, is a constant in the universe.
( On with the fic )( On with the fic )
Because I'm always very productive when I have a million of OTHER things to do...
Dee's Lament
(Set around season 3)
But in 19 days, we'll all celebrate BSGmas!
In honor of this great holiday, I bring you some songs
( Warning: Crack. Do not take seriously. )
Title: Pick Your Place
Rating: M
Spoilers : Beginning of season 4
Summary :
Disclaimers : Not mine.
( Happy Birthday, BB! )

