The best part about directing is... it's fun.
- The ark is a bomb. - What?
- You OK? - Where is she?
Fire!
No!
The episode ''Resurrection'' is a story about a rogue NlD operation gone awry.
The SG-1 is called by Agent Barrett from the NlD to this abandoned warehouse
where they've been conducting these experiments, the rogue NlD.
When we get there, everyone but two people are dead. Massacred.
The two people that are alive are: one, a young girl who's kept in a glass cage,
and two, a scientist.
Throughout the course of the episode, we find out
that the girl is a Goa'uld human hybrid that the scientist has created...
They look like partially developed foetuses.
..and that she is, in fact, responsible for the deaths of all the people,
but unknowingly, because this Goa'uld takes over.
A separate and distinct personality.
So Anna's mind has created an entirely separate personality
that acts like the Goa'uld Sekhmet?
ln the meantime, down in the artefact room,
Teal'c and Daniel have uncovered a bomb.
Ooooh!
- Did we just do that? - l do not believe so.
lt was activated some time ago.
Ohhhh!
We're in the artefact room, which is where the gang discovers an ark
that turns out to be a bomb.
The bomb has been activated prior to their arrival,
so it's now down to Teal'c and Dr Lee from the SGC
to try to de-activate the bomb.
The horror! There's lots of tension.
All season long, they've been asking me ''What's my character arc?''
l said ''Just wait. ln the last episode, we're gonna find the ark.''
- (Amanda) And we found an ark. - (Robert) Finally we found the ark.
Yay!
Directing my co-stars was a dream.
l didn't have the opportunity to direct Rick, cos he wasn't in the episode,
but Michael and Christopher, who were there for me 1 10%.
Michael was like my rock, cos he had a lot to do in the episode.
Chris was amazing.
Da-da-dah.
And then there was Kristen Dalton who played Anna. She had a really tough job.
My name is Kristen Dalton and l am playing the role of Anna.
She was so sweet about wanting to please me
and making sure that l was happy with her work.
l'm having a ball here on the set with Amanda Tapping directing,
who is absolutely fantastic.
She was just an absolute sweetheart.
She rocks. Yeah!
We're in the stellar room at Terminal City.
We're setting up for a big crane shot.
The scene starts with Daniel and Anna kelno'reeming,
Daniel is... Michael is trying to get me to meditate
so that l can find out information in my subconscious.
You see a doorway.
Go to that door and open it.
Go through.
ln the course of the scene, she goes crazy, berserk, whacko.
No!
Rips all her paintings down off the wall, knocks over a bookshelf,
grabs all the paintings from under her desk and lights a fire.
Whoosh!
Then she escapes.
l cause chaos.
Killing. Maiming.
Beating. Destroying.
Da-da-dah.
And everybody lives happily ever after.
Huh? How calm am l about that?
No problem(!)
Hurry! Come on!
Hurry!
So my experience with the cast, as a whole, was amazing.
Except for the girl that plays Carter, who was a bit of a problem.
- So it would seem. - Yeah, what about that girl?
But seriously... directing myself
was just a matter of taking off the director hat and putting on the actor hat
and trusting the people you have behind the monitors,
which is dead easy on this show as you have Michael Greenburg, who's amazing
and just watches your back.
He's been doing it for so long, he knows what to look for.
l found, after the first couple of days, that the only way l could do it
was to not edit myself as a director while l was acting, and just become Carter.
lt was hard. But it literally was a matter of taking off one hat and putting on another.
- No way! - (laughter and clapping)
- (woman) Hurry up! - (man) Look at this! A new hat.
''Obey me.''
The best part is that creative juice. lt's just using a different part of your brain.
Having been an actor on the show for seven years,
it's just a chance to use a completely different part of my brain,
a different side of my creative brain, to be a director.
l'm working with the crew, which l've always loved,
but having a different relationship with them.
Having them all turn to you and go ''What's next?''
The first two times, l was nervous.
And the first time l yelled ''Action'' l giggled,
cos l never got to say that before.
l think you got that on film.
And action! (giggles) My first time.
Yeah. That's me.
This was a career path for me, a choice l had made a long time ago,
that it was another branch that l wanted to get into.
Which is why l pushed so hard on this show to be given the opportunity to direct.
l just kept pushing and pushing until l finally beat them down and they agreed.
l will always want to continue acting, but this is something l want to... take off on.
This is the new career path.
So, we'll see what happens.
Cut.
That was nice. That was great.
l feel more in control already.
Fantastic! l love it.
- (man) How do you feel? - Anxious.
There's a lot. A lot in the story.
lt's too much.
What?
(¶ Stargate theme)
(cheering)
- ls that it? - (man) That's it.
l had fun.
ENHOH