Longmire - Season 1 - Katee Sackhoff interview

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Tell us about the premise of Longmire and who Victoria is.
Katee Sackhoff: Walt Longmire is a sheriff in a fictional town in Wyoming called Absaroka County. I play his deputy, Victoria Moretti, who is a transplant from Philadelphia. She was a homicide detective in Philadelphia, and her husband works for the gas company and she goes with him. She stems from a family of cops. Two of her three brothers and her father are all police officers. She's from a very stereotypical East Coast Italian family and moves with her husband and is a bit blown away by everything that's going on around her.

There's one episode where she actually has to go track a bear and she's like, "A bear? Do we have to get a warrant for the bear or do we just go pick him up? Do we ask for him to come with us? I don't know what we do." So she's really funny and she's got the quips, and she always keeps Longmire on his toes, which is kind of the heart of their relationship. She takes the piss out of him as much as possible.

That personality is similar to your character Starbuck's from Battlestar Galactica. Is that a fair comparison?
Sackhoff: It is possibly a fair comparison. I took this character, ultimately, because I felt she was extremely different from Starbuck, and I made a conscious decision to make her more feminine. She talks differently, she's a character that talks really fast. The other day we had to work with bulls and I was scared of them, and they're like, two feet tall. I figured I would just use it for the character. She's a city girl. She's not used to this whole cow dung stuff.

What attracted you to this role?
Sackhoff: Ultimately it was the script and Craig Johnson's book. When the role came my direction, I read the pilot, then read the book. I loved the book, and then I met with the producers and I loved them. Ultimately, the reason why I took the job was because of [executive producers] Greer Shepherd, Hunt Baldwin and John Coveny. At the heart of this, it's a throwback to old Westerns. The pacing is very much like an old Western. Longmire really is just that quintessential, slow-talking, big-thinking, quiet, reserved, anti-hero.

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