{"id":118671,"date":"2021-03-18T15:22:30","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=118671"},"modified":"2021-03-18T15:22:30","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T15:22:30","slug":"stargates-michael-shanks-gives-biggest-interview-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/news\/stargates-michael-shanks-gives-biggest-interview-ever\/","title":{"rendered":"Stargate\u2019s Michael Shanks Gives Biggest Interview Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"

Back together for the first time in years, Brad Wright – co-creator of <\/span>Stargate SG-1<\/i><\/b>,<\/span><\/i> Stargate Atlantis<\/i><\/b>, and <\/span>Stargate Universe<\/i><\/b>, and creator of <\/span>Travelers<\/i><\/b> on Netflix – hosts an intimate <\/span>one-on-one interview podcast<\/span><\/a> with his friend and <\/span>SG-1<\/i><\/b> star, Michael Shanks.<\/span><\/p>\n

Shanks, who played Daniel Jackson for 13 years between 1997 and 2010, before going on to appear in <\/span>Smallville<\/i><\/b> and <\/span>Altered Carbon<\/i><\/b>, gives his most revealing career interview ever on the showrunner\u2019s new podcast, <\/span>Brad Wright\u2019s Conversations in Sci-Fi<\/i><\/b>, which is available now <\/span>exclusively on<\/span> TheCompanion.app<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Over the <\/span>free 35-minute episode<\/span><\/a> the two science fiction icons recall<\/span> Stargate<\/i><\/b> SG-1<\/i><\/b>\u2019s disastrous first day of filming, why Daniel really lost his leg in the movie <\/span>Stargate Continuum<\/i><\/b>, and how a fire alarm nearly got the show canned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

For diehard <\/span>Stargate<\/i><\/b> fans, <\/span>an extended 75-minute cut of the interview is available<\/span><\/a> to members of The Companion<\/span>.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Until Friday 19 March, new members can join for 3 months by <\/span>donating a sum of their choice<\/span><\/a> to the charity Special Effect, which supplies bespoke controllers and consoles to gamers whose disabilities restrict their access.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Membership includes access to over a hundred in-depth articles and exclusive interviews, as well as invitations to live events, and <\/span>our fortnightly digital magazine SciFiNow+<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hear Stargate\u2019s Brad Wright and Michael Shanks in conversation and help support a very worthy cause<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":118673,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[3,2618],"tags":[1549],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/Stargate\u2019s-Michael-Shanks-Gives-Biggest-Interview-Ever.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118671"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}