Joe Flanigan: It doesn’t bother me to work with so much green screen. I prefer real settings obviously. There are sometimes that the green screens are fantastic when you see the final product. The scenes in the jumper are challenging. It’s a very awkward little space, so that can be a little strange. Unlike on STAR TREK where they shake the set to simulate explosions and things we have to just act. Can you believe that? Actually it’s our acting that is making the set shake!
Joe Flanigan: I wasn’t a big science fiction aficionado, there were a few films like 2001 or BLADE RUNNER that were favorites of mine, but since I started this series I have gained more respect for the genre and become more of a fan myself.
Joe Flanigan: I believe that science fiction is as profound as you want it to be or it can be very simple entertainment, and I'm all for very simple entertainment. Every now and then we all need to come home, veg-out, watch something and not think too deeply about it. It's what you want it to be. We tend to steer clear of being pedantic; it's entertainment first, otherwise we'd be on a lecture circuit.
Joe Flanigan: Learning what you don’t want to do is pretty valuable, it may be as valuable as figuring out what it is you do want to do
Among his favorite sports are skateboarding, surfing and skiing, but he says Vancouver is a little wet for skateboarding.
Joe Flanigan will appear on all of the official 2006 conventions in Vancouver, Chicago, New Jersey and Burbank.
Joe likes to eat food from all over the world.
Joe came up with the storyline for the episode Epiphany for season 2 of Stargate Atlantis. He collaborated with Robert Cooper and Brad Wright, who wrote the final script.
Joe starred as Scott Cameron in the 1995 movie Deadline for murder.
Joe is starring as Regis in the upcoming film Silent Men.
He currently resides in Malibu, California, with his wife and three sons-Aiden, Truman and Fergus.
Of the five original Stargate: Atlantis regulars, he is the only American.
Graduate of University of Colorado, major in history.
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