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KM: Exactly.
GW: So, there you go. You spent a lot of time working with Mitch Pileggi, [Colonel Steven Caldwell] I'd imagine?
KM: Yes. Mitch is great. He's a lot of fun.
GW: Very cool.
You were in several episodes of Atlantis. Always on the Daedalus bridge. A lot of things exploding.
" You always kind of hope your character is going to become something."
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KM: I did this a lot [shaking his chair] "We're getting hit man!" Actually there were two times when I was able to get out of my chair and walk and talk. Those were big days for me. [Laughter] But it was pretty easy. I could actually take my lines and put them on my console when they're filming this angle.
"Oh OK, here are my lines." But there were a couple of times when I had to walk and talk and I felt much more extended as an actor. Like I could really delve in the process.
GW: Are you disappointed that ... Now that Atlantis is over, are you disappointed that there wasn't an opportunity to further the character anymore? Besides Major Dave Kleinman.
KM: Of course. Of course you always have the dreams of grandeur where you believe "They're going to make my character something great." He's going to do what the cigarette smoking man became in . He was just this little piece and all of a sudden he becomes a pinnacle part of the X-Files.
You always kind of hope your character is going to become something. [Change voice] "A renegade that changes sides and gives you diversity to be able to act things. And then you get horribly scalded. And then you get the prosthetics. And then it all builds into something more. And then there's lots of love affairs. It's always about the love affairs. That's what we're looking for, yes." [Laughter]
GW: You were Martin Christopher's [Major Marks] counterpart for SG-1. Martin did the Odyssey. He was the crewman on the Odyssey and you were the crewman on the Daedalus.
KM: Oh OK.
GW: And I will be honest. Sometimes I mixed you guys up. Do you ever get that? "Oh, he was the one on the Odyssey," "No, the Daedalus, I was on the Daedalus." Has that ever happened?
KM: No, it's the first time I've heard that. But if he was that much like me, then he must die. [Laughter]
[Change voice] "There cannot be two! Only one." Yeah, so first I've ever hear that.
GW: OK cool. Now I know. I've never met Martin, so now I'll definitely ... I'm kidding. I knew it was you. No, it's great.
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What's on the horizon for you right now? What can we expect to see you in? What's going on?
KM: Well, I am doing a couple of cartoons right now called Death Note, the other one called Gundam 00 doing voice and characters in that. I just had a meeting with a director yesterday for a movie called The Good Wife. So I am hoping that materializes.
There is a pilot out of ABC that I think if they film it up here I could be the guy. But if they're talking about doing it in LA it's going to be ... you know, are they going to give me the work permit to come down in LA? Go up there ... down to LA and do it?
Other than that, I've been working. I've been writing some scripts and keeping busy.
GW: Oh OK, you are. So you do a little writing?
KM: Yeah.
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