Oh, I really love your comment here. I think you captured a lot about what I admire most in both actors. I also adore the look on Jamie's face in YCGHA, it's one of the moments where we see the most of who Lee really is as a son; I think it's more telling than any conversation he and his father ever had.
And Katee does bring a real light to Kara, doesn't she? I think too often in strong, macho-type characters humor is the first thing to go (Admiral Cain, for example, was a formidable woman but a rigid and humorless one, and even Roslin, as she became more settled in the power and pressures of the Presidency, lost the traces of self-mockery and gentle humor that graced her early career). Whereas Katee never lost that unexpected grace, she always made Kara feel so...sparkling, so full of vitality and underlying, carefully guarded sweetness. Yet she didn't sacrifice her strength or edginess or darkness in the process.
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Date: 2010-07-10 07:44 pm (UTC)And Katee does bring a real light to Kara, doesn't she? I think too often in strong, macho-type characters humor is the first thing to go (Admiral Cain, for example, was a formidable woman but a rigid and humorless one, and even Roslin, as she became more settled in the power and pressures of the Presidency, lost the traces of self-mockery and gentle humor that graced her early career). Whereas Katee never lost that unexpected grace, she always made Kara feel so...sparkling, so full of vitality and underlying, carefully guarded sweetness. Yet she didn't sacrifice her strength or edginess or darkness in the process.