Michael Shanks
Michael Shanks
Michael Garrett Shanksis a Canadian actor, writer and director best known for his role as Dr. Daniel Jackson in the long-running Canadian-American military science fiction television series Stargate SG-1. More recently, Shanks has been playing Dr. Charles Harris on the Canadian medical drama, Saving Hope...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionTV Actor
Date of Birth15 December 1970
CityVancouver, Canada
CountryCanada
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I think the writing on the wall is definitely there this year that this is probably our last year.
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I'd done a few jobs, but not much, and I'd come from a family that exercises caution when it comes to anything to do with job security.
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You know, if it doesn't work, we can always cut it.
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We never thought the show would last this long.
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I think I'd certainly be lying to say I would have wanted to play the character in somebody else's interpretation for 8 years that way.
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There's one right now that's sort of a Canadian independent film that Don Davis and I are working to put together, and that's kind of a labor of love.
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With network shows, writers can be so protective of every syllable.
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It would be certainly arrogant of me to claim that the show was not a good show without myself at the centre.
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So I think at the start of the 3rd year, that's when the character became sort of more like myself than it was about the original interpretation.
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It was nice, though, to have the long term benefit to be able to pare away those things and eventually make the character my own and put my own unique stamp.
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I was doing Hamlet in the off-season, and I had a specific idea in my mind about what I wanted that character to look like, and because it's going to lead into the next year, I knew that it was going to have to be established somewhere in the show.
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It's absolutely true that it's almost impossible to play a character without having any affection for him.
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I think that you can take things personally or get hurt feelings as a result of something not working out just because your psyche said it should or you deserve it, or whatever it is.
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But I don't bet the farm on any of those possibilities, either. I'm also preparing, intelligently, to walk away from this, and walk away from it happy to have had the experience.