HUMAN TARGET PICTURES HIRES. 9 March 2010

I've replaced the new Human Target pictures with very HR versions.

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HUMAN TARGET PICTURES. 9 March 2010

Thanks to Guest we have the first photos of Grace from Human Target!

Photos from Daemon's TV, and the episode description and air date info:

Grace Park will guest star on the new series HUMAN TARGET from FOX. The episode is titled "Corner Man" and is scheduled to air March 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. It's good to see Grace Park on the small screen although she will always be Boomer for me.

Episode Synopsis: HUMAN TARGET "Corner Man" - Chance (Mark Valley) travels to a boxing tournament to outsmart a shrewd gambler in the HUMAN TARGET episode "Corner Man" airing Wednesday, March 24 (8:00-9:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX.

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HAWAII FIVE-0 CAST ADDITIONS. 5 March 2010

The Futon Critics is reporting that Taryn Manning (Hustle and Flow, 8 Mile, Sons of Anarchy) and Scott Caan (Ocean's Eleven, Goen in 60 Seconds, Boiler Room) have joined the cast of Hawaii Five-0. Caan will guest star as Danny Williams, while Manning will play the lead character's younger sister.

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SITE UPDATES. 3 March 2010

I've added pages to the filmography for Human Target and Hawaii Five-0. Here's some more info on HFO:

Alex Kurtzman and Robert Orci have done the script for the pilot episode. They've worked on Watchmen, the Star Trek reboot, The Island, Transformers, Xena: Warrior Princess, Alias, and Fringe. Peter Lenkov is the showrunner and he's worked on La Femme Nikita, 24, and CSI: NY. Len Wiseman is now being reported as the director, and he's worked on the Underworld franchise and the last Die Hard movie. In the casting notices Kono is described as "a spectacular Asian/Hawaiian beauty who is a champion surfer, with the smarts to match her amazing physical prowess. However, Kono's sole interest is getting her badge and becoming a cop. She's about to graduate from the police academy when McGarrett recruits her to join his team. Amped and ready for action, Kono goes undercover as a downtrodden immigrant girl looking for help from a notorious human trafficker -- a perilous assignment that takes a disastrous turn."

Does anyone else think it's a little weird that even though Grace is only 6 years younger than Daniel Dae Kim, she's playing his niece?

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NOTHING NEW. 3 March 2010

Just want to point out a few things:

1. Hawaii Five-0 Starts filming this month in Oahu so keep an eye out for pictures!

2. It seems the episode order for Human Target wasn't set until a few weeks ago so the ninth episode is now the tenth episode. It should air later this month, around the 31st.

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THE BORDER CANCELLED. 28 February 2010

Another one bites the dust: CBC has cancelled The Border. I figured; the ratings had dropped after they moved its slot and with Grace signing up for H50.....

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GRACE JOINS HAWAII FIVE-O REMAKE. 26 February 2010

The Hollywood Reporter has reported that Grace has joined the remake of Hawaii Five-O:

It is shaping to be a very good broadcast pilots season for "Battlestar Galactica" fans.

A second beauty from the cult Syfy series has landed a drama pilot. Grace Park, aka Lt. Sharon "Boomer" Valerii from "Battlestar," has joined CBS' "Hawaii Five-O" remake. The updated take on the original series centers on an elite branch of the Hawaii State Police headed by Steve McGarrett (Alex O'Loughlin). Park will play Kono Kalakaulau, the niece of squad member Chin Ho Kelly, played by "Lost's" Daniel Dae Kim. Kono is a beautiful and smart champion surfer who is about to graduate from the police academy when McGarrett recruits her to join his team. Park most recently co-starred opposite Benjamin Bratt in A&E's dram drama "The Cleaner." She joins another "Battlestar" alumna, Katee Sackhoff, who was recently recruited to star in ABC's untitled Richard Hatem drama pilot. Additionally, Tricia Helfer, who played No. 6 on the sci-fi series, is joining TNT's cop drama "Dark Blue" as a new regular.

And for all "Battlestar" fans who are getting nostalgic by all the casting news, the show's final online auction starts Friday night.

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CANDYLAND. 21 February 2010

Candyland is the new name of Run, Rabbit, Run, the indie film Grace has a supporting role in. (Tahmoh is in it too.) They've redone their website, adding new pictures (1 of Grace), deleted scenes/outtakes, and a second trailer:

Also, they apparently tried to get the film screened at TIFF but they were rejected. However, they were sent off to the Sudbury Film Festival where the film DID screen. Hunh; I don't remember hearing about this. The audience was quite taken with the film. It also screened at the Beverly Hills Film Festival.

“Kate Twa's CANDYLAND is a high-octane trip to an often travelled, but seldom really seen world that marks the debut of an impressive new directorial voice.  It tells the story of what happens when kids from the 'right side' of the tracks stray into a crystal-meth induced rabbit hole that puts them on a very dangerous path.  Many directors have explored this subject matter, but few manage to capture it with quite the authenticity that Twa coaxes from her performers.  She leads her primarily non-professional cast to some very dark places and back again, without losing the characters' inherent naivety, youthful energy or enthusiasm.  Candyland is a fast-paced, morally grounded movie that's never moralistic, that shows us the flip side of normal without being didactic or heavy-handed about it.  No small accomplishment for a first feature.  Kudos ! “

• John Dippong, Regional Feature Film Executive, Telefilm, Canada

"A disturbingly realistic and fascinating ride!"

• Scott Lund, Vice President & General Manager CTV, Ontario

“Candyland is a visceral experience, one of the few films that I have seen that has stuck with me long after. It’s raw, emotional and thought provoking. This is a film that deserves worldwide exposure. Director Kate Twa captures performances from a remarkable ensemble of young actors that give their soul.”

• Aleks Paunovic, Actor, 'Caprica', 'Personal Effects'

This film effected me to the core and was an intense, emotional ride unlike any other film I have seen. Who needs flashy special effects; Hollywood budgets; storylines involving Vampires?  Here you have the bravest of Directors and the bravest of actors, the majority of whom are embracing their first major lead role, who tackle material that is raw and uncensored, with such intense honesty.  The film forces the audience to face social realities that although difficult to watch cannot be ignored.

• Trudy Aronson, Premiere Talent Management

WSJ INTERVIEW CAPPED. 21 February 2010

Thanks to Ted the Wall Street Journal interview has been added to the video archive, and 52 screencaps have been added to the gallery.

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GRACE GIVES NEW INTERVIEW. 12 February 2010

Watch the video:

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HUMAN TARGET. 6 February 2010

There have been two tweets, by the same person, that are very interesting:

JWright99: Grace Park was smokin hot last night... With Steve Boyum at the helm, ep. 9 surely will surely be UHmazing...

JWright99: At the pool we filmed Grace Park swimming tonight, the heat came through the walls to heat the covered space... Amazing feat of engineering

Has anyone heard anything about Grace doing a stint on Human Target?

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MORE KOREAM. 3 February 2010

I've got the cover image for Grace's appearance in the newest issue of KoreAm:

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GRACE BACK IN KOREAM. 1 February 2010

KoreAm has featured Grace again!

Grace 2.0

There are thousands of Grace Parks. Only one is a Cylon.

Fans of the sci-fi cult hit Battlestar Galactica might recognize the above subtitle as a reference to the show’s opening sequence, when viewers are reminded that the Cylons—a race of cybernetic clones hell-bent on human genocide—have always had a plan. It’s ironic then that Grace Park—who will forever be remembered as Sharon/Athena/Boomer/Eight or, to the casual observer, “The Asian Cylon”—has never really had one.

When she booked her first series gig 10 years ago, she was merely happy to be working. The show was Edgemont, a 2001-2005 teen drama on the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) that also launched the career of Kristin Kreuk of Smallville fame. Grace’s role as Shannon Ng was noteworthy for being the first depiction of an Asian teenage lesbian in North American television. (Yeah, Grace laughs at the specificity of it, too.) At that point in her acting career, she had no 10-year plan or five-year plan, or for that matter, a one-year plan; she didn’t write her hopes and dreams on pieces of paper to manifest them into reality or other ridiculous success strategies designed to foster hope in a brutal industry that usually crushes them. Yet, when Kristin booked CW’s Smallville and became a spokeswoman for Neutrogena, in the back of Grace’s mind, she knew stardom would also come her way.

Flash-forward 10 years. Grace recently concluded an acclaimed run on Syfy’s Battlestar Galactica, a show, hailed by critics as one of the best television series of the past decade, that aired from 2003-2009. She starred opposite John Cho in Michael Kang’s 2007 indie thriller, West 32nd. She appeared on The Border, a popular CBC action drama, now three seasons in, about an elite Canadian Immigration and Customs Security Unit. And Edgemont is finally being syndicated in the United States, to the delight of countless Asian teenage lesbians.

You’d think with the dawn of a new decade, the Los Angeles-born Canadian would want to reflect on the past like everybody else. But the thought never even occurred to her. “I don’t really think I’ve been reflective. I just more feel like I’m looking forward to what I’d like to do this year,” she proclaims.

Since Grace didn’t want to dwell on the past, I decided to walk her through it.

In previous interviews, Grace, who lives in Vancouver, asserts that she didn’t become an actress for the fame or glamour. And it wasn’t about the money either. Then (as now), she’d always been driven by the desire to excel at what she does. She admits, however, “It was hard for me to act for a while because I knew I was getting these great opportunities, but my work was not where I wanted it to be.” Thus, the thought of Edgemont being seen by a whole new audience makes her cringe. “When something like Edgemont that you’ve done early on decides to come back out…I’m not going to be running out and watching any of my original work.”

She’s slightly prouder of the work she did in the final 10 episodes of Battlestar, which the influential entertainment blog, “Television Without Pity,” honored by naming Grace one of the Most Valuable Performers of 2009. And to think those final episodes might never have been filmed. The 2007 Writers Guild of America strike halted production of the series at a critical juncture. The last scenes that were shot prior to the strike were set on the charred, uninhabitable remains of Earth. At that point in the series, Grace was playing several versions of the Eighth humanoid Cylon model. In one iteration, she had betrayed the Cylons, pledged loyalty to the Colonial fleet as they wandered deep space in search of Earth, and married a human pilot with whom she had a mixed-race daughter. In another iteration, she played the sleeper Cylon agent responsible for the failed assassination attempt on the fleet’s admiral. She also portrayed various clones on the Cylon baseship.

With the strike looming, many on set knew that there were no guarantees the show would return. The sadness and despair on the actors’ faces during those scenes were genuine. Earth could have served as an ending to the series—albeit a sorely disappointing one. When production returned, Edward James Olmos, the cast’s patriarch, sat them down to watch the last few episodes they had completed thus far. Grace’s reaction to her performance was scathing to say the least. “Really?” she thought. “Is that the last thing I shot? Is that all? Is that where I’m at? This sucks. Not that my stuff was necessarily bad, but I guess I just had higher hopes. So I was at the point where I felt like—alright, I’m all in.” Her bet paid off. “Television Without Pity” wrote of her work: “Park’s character had the most impressive range, from a woman being judged for her mixed marriage (Cylon & human) to clones wanting more out of their life to awesome pilot. Although she was often overlooked in favor of Starbuck and Six, her final few episodes were emotional and tearjerkingly wonderful.”

That same fearless approach to acting persists to this day and you can see the subtle differences in subsequent roles in The Border and The Cleaner (A&E). For the former, she played Homeland Security Agent Liz Carver and for the latter, edgy but big-hearted Akani Cuesta, part of an unconventional team of “extreme interventionists” that steers addicts toward recovery; though neither project gave her the same range of emotions as Battlestar, she comes across as an actress fully in command of her craft and a woman more comfortable in her shell.

And let’s talk about that shell for a moment, shall we? Chosen as one of FHM magazine’s “100 Sexiest Women in the World” and one of Maxim magazine’s “Hot 100,” Grace easily looks 10 years younger than her actual age (35, thank you very much.) Chalk it up to the whole Asian thing, but she credits the mass quantities of green food nutritional supplements that she pounds on a daily basis for keeping her ageless and fit. Apparently, the stuff looks like swamp water and according to her husband, smells like “low tide.” Whatever it is, it’s working. But you wouldn’t necessarily know that from the characters she portrays; they are never vixens vamping for the camera, but rather, complex women whose beauty is enhanced by their strength; the sex appeal is muted, yet unmistakable. That is until she smolders on the cover of Maxim or poses for some racy pictorial or films a steamy-yet-tasteful love scene, that you’re reminded what an absolute stunner she is. Which leads one to wonder: How does the man married to Grace Park handle it when she unleashes all that sexy?

As far as her sex-symbol status goes, her husband seems unfazed. “He has a lot of trust in me,” Grace asserts. “If you didn’t trust your woman or were a little bit insecure or if you were a player, you know, all of those things would influence you to perhaps be more possessive. It’s been a lot easier to be an actor with those characteristics in a husband, for sure.”

In an industry where celebs abdicate privacy and much as journalists invade it, Grace is refreshingly reticent about her marriage. Despite my prodding for intimate details about their courtship, she mostly stuck to the generalities. She’s been married since 2004 to Phil Kim, a Korea-born real estate developer who grew up in British Columbia. Surprised? (Not so much by the Canadian part, but by the fact that he’s Korean?) Well, Grace admits, “It was a surprise to me, too. Of course there are things we have in common so it’s a lot easier. It was actually a teeny bit negative just because my dad and just certain things. It was like, dude, I do not want to have to deal with this bullshit for the rest of my life.” So it probably helped that Phil wasn’t exactly hardcore Korean. According to Grace, between the two of them, they can count their close Korean friends on one hand. And despite being born in Korea, Phil tends to make up his own words. “He likes to say that he knows better Korean than me. And he says these really weird words, but his mom grew up in the south. So I finally go, ‘Oh, okay, that’s just how they say it.’ And then we’d be talking to either his mom or my mom or dad, and they’d say, ‘No, what is that?’ The words he makes up are just crap.”

Not that Grace and Phil have totally assimilated either. She did wear a hanbok for her pebaek in Vancouver, though no dates or chestnuts were thrown. And when she was developing her Cylon character, it was Phil who’d planted the cultural parallels. “I had a hard time just being the villain,” Grace explains. (Cylons, it should be known, were actually created by humans and enslaved until they rose up against their creators.) “My husband had said back when we were dating, ‘Oh, it’s easy. It’s just like you’re an oppressed race.’ And that just really opened my eyes because Koreans have been oppressed in the past—not in Canada—but, you know, with the history of Japan and Korea. I took whatever I knew from stories I had heard from my cousins growing up and I applied that. And then all of a sudden, I felt totally rooted and grounded in what I was doing. I just felt like I really had something to stand for and I felt the fight. Koreans love to fight too, right?”

So are there plans for Grace and Phil to start their own brood of fighting, Korean Canucks? According to her, she’s open to it, but like many, her plans for motherhood are vague.

Given Grace’s success, it comes as a bit of a shock to hear that she’s contemplating leaving the profession. After a relatively short time in the industry, she has reached a particular crossroad. “Before, I was just so hungry to prove myself,” she muses. “I wanted to achieve something because I had tied my self-worth way too much to this industry and my success. It was both good and bad for my work. So now that I feel like I’ve kinda separated the two, I don’t have to act and book certain gigs and get bigger jobs. I don’t have to prove anything. No, actually I lie. A part of me still wants to do that. But I’m not 100 percent rooted in that anymore. I feel more open to exploring different things.”

Exactly what things, you might ask? The list (half-jokingly) includes: busking on the streets of Paris, attending silent meditation retreats, living in a shack on a deserted island, waiting for a flight at some weird airport in some random little city, and perhaps having kids. But the list also includes more acting classes and expanding her résumé to include a producer credit. She’s currently attached to produce and star in the indie film Deadmonton, which centers on Asian street culture in Edmonton, Canada, which has the highest rate of gang-related murders in the country. As far as other opportunities on the horizon are concerned, she says, “There’s a ton of projects out there, but why would I want to do something so excessively violent or why would I want to do something that represents women in that way?” She acknowledges that her agent and manager are often exasperated by her. But if a project doesn’t offer her a significant challenge or a new experience, if it isn’t something she really believes in, she’s not interested in doing it. Like her beauty, her convictions are also deceptively fierce.

It might sound like Grace Park doesn’t have a plan, but after talking with her you get the sense that she knows exactly what she’s doing.

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GRACE LECTURING?.... 30 January 2010

A bunch of people have tweeted that two days ago Grace "guested"/"lectured" at Simon Fraser University. I believe BSG filmed quite a number of scenes there.

blubberingfool: Grace Park from BSG is in my class today.

anothersamchan: Grace Park from BSG is guest-lecturing in my class today!

mattlee61: Got to see Grace Park from Battlestar Galactica in my lecture today. She's still lookin' hot!

melanieshim: OMG Grace Park is guest starring in my class!

I wonder what that's all about?

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THIS IS AMAZING.... 28 January 2010

Pierre found this:

I am now about 89% more of a Grace Park fan than I was before; that is so damn funny! Skinjob Lube? Toaster Butter? Pocket Rocket? LOL!

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EDGEMONT.... 25 January 2010

Episodes of Edgemont are now being aired on the CW! So if you haven't seen Grace in one of her first roles as Shannon Ng, the first teenage lesbian of Asian descent on television in North America, just check the airings!

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THE BORDER.... 22 January 2010

So Ted asked an excellent question: will The Border get a fourth season? According to TV Feeds My Family the finale did 506,000:

The third season finale of CBC's The Border did 506,000 Thursday night. That won't be enough to stem speculation that the show is a toss up to return for a fourth season.

As it has been all season since being switched to Thursday nights, the homeland security series, starring James McGowan (above) as major Mike Kessler, was up against some stiff competition. CTV's Grey's Anatomy, which airs opposite The Border at 9 p.m., was No. 1 for the night with 2,267,000 viewers (according to BBM Canada overnight estimates). CTV's The Mentalist was right behind with 2,139,000. Next came CTV's always potent local supper hour newscast (1,804,000) and a new episode of Bones on Global (1,729,000). CTV`s CSI at 8 p.m. (1,670,000) rounded out the Canadian Top-5.

Helping to knock The Border down to 25th for the night was a Leafs game on TSN, which drew 1, 066,000. A Nature of Things lead in (485,000) didn't help, nor did Private Practice (807,000), airing opposite on A channel. City at 9 went with back-to-back 30 Rock (417,000 and 405,000).

The Border was up slightly over last week's 479,000 and at one point in October got as low as 410,000 viewers, slipping below the MPLIB level (More People Live In Brampton). It really was sent on a suicide mission this fall and winter and hopefully will be judged accordingly when CBC programmers announce their 2010-11 schedule in June.

The good news for the CBC Thursday night was the relatively high score for The National, with 729,000 catching the news at 10 in the wake of the disaster in Haiti.

According to Denis McGrath, a former writer for The Border:

Even battered by the timeslot and by its status as the longest-toothed drama in the "new CBC" stable. (Call it the "Space Shuttle" of Canadian Dramas...) the show still managed to average over 500 000 viewers for the year, so cancellation isn't certain.  New scripts have reportedly been commissioned for a possible fourth season, so that's something.

If that rumor is true then the network is at least considering keeping the show. I have no idea how long it usually takes for this sort of thing to be decided.

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ASK MEN TOP 99 WOMEN.... 21 January 2010

Grace came in at #46 on Ask Men's Top 99 Women of 2010.

Galactica, which caused a dark cloud of depression to loom over the tech unit of the AskMen.com office. Maybe it was their furious Tweets to their followers begging them to vote that landed both Canadian actresses Grace Park and Tricia Helfer on our list of the Top 99 Most Desirable Women of 2010. Or maybe it’s just that we all, secretly or not, watched the sci-fi series. Fortunately for those who fell for Park during her four-season stint playing Sharon Valerii, you get to see her in 2010 reprising her role in Battlestar Galactica: The Plan (a made-for-television movie). If you're craving to see her in something new, you can now see her solve crime as Special Agent Liz Carver on CBC’s series The Border in Canada or if you live, well, near the border of Canada.

You can visit the site to vote for Grace.

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GRACE ON ALT COM SHOW.... 18 January 2010

Found this on Twitter:

Special BSG takeover on the Alt Com Show, Katee Sackhoff, Grace Park, and Edward James Olmas hang with MSH! alongside the best in Alt Com 6pm ET on Raw Dog

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THE BORDER SEASON THREE SCREENCAPS.... 18 January 2010

255 caps from No Refuge:

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CREDIBLE THREAT SCREENCAPS.... 14 January 2010

I screencapped Credible Threat, the most recent episode of The Border. 204 caps:

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MORE ICONS.... 7 January 2010

I stumbled across Frakkster a few days ago and they had 6 lovely icons of Grace that have been added to the archive:

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ANOTHER TIDBIT.... 5 January 2010

Grace is listed on a Television Without Pity compiled list featured on Yahoo of TV's Most Valuable Performers of 2009:

Grace Park as Boomer/Athena, "Battlestar Galactica": Of the Cylons, Park's character had the most impressive range, from a woman being judged for her mixed marriage (Cylon & human) to clones wanting more out of their life to awesome pilot. Although she was often overlooked in favor of Starbuck and Six, her final few episodes were emotional and tearjerkingly wonderful. Source: TWoP

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SDCC 2009.... 5 January 2010

I added 10 new pictures to the 2009 San Diego Comic Con gallery.

AfterEllen's, always appreciative of Grace, mentioned her on their end-of-the-decade list Best. Lesbian. Decade. Ever.:

Grace Park plays lesbian teen on Edgemont
In Canadian teen drama Edgemont Grace Park played "Shannon," a Christian teen who came out over the course of the show's five seasons. In 2003, her character came out to her parents, moved out of their house, and developed a crush on a girl who actually liked her back. Her character is the first teenage lesbian of Asian descent on television in North America

Also, 3 new icons:

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NEW WALLPAPER.... 3 January 2010

Apologies to BoomerNo8 for the delay in getting this up:

And thanks for sending it in! Love those pictures :)

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SCIFI SEXIEST WOMEN SCREENCAPS.... 29 December 2009

I capped the TV's Sexiest SciFi Women of All Time video, got 29 caps. They're here.

Also, I updated the TV schedule to include the television premiere of Battlestar Galactica: The Plan.

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SCIFI SEXIEST WOMEN.... 28 December 2009

I've got Grace's segment from the SciFi Sexiest Women Countdown for download.

And GrumpyOldFan returned with 11 banners. Thanks!

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ADDITIONS TO THE ASIAN EXCELLENCE AWARDS 2007.... 28 December 2009

Okay, 21 new pictures ave been added to the gallery for the 2007 Asian Excellence Awards, and 15 ave been replaced with larger and unwatermarked versions. Thanks, Ivan.

And Edgemont has been picked up to air in the United States.

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MORE GALLERY UPDATES.... 22 December 2009

A new picture has been added to the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards gallery. 3 pictures in the Pusan International Film Festival gallery have been replaced with larger and unwatermarked versions.

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GALLERY UPDATE.... 22 December 2009

Thanks to Ivan I've been able to replace the small and/or watermarked images in the 2005 SciFi Talent Party. There are even a few news ones!

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THE PLAN STILLS.... 17 December 2009

Daydreaming has a hundred or so stills for The Plan and I grabbed the ones featuring Grace (a sample):

I have no memory of that scene of Sharon and Six as survivors.

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A FEW NEW THINGS.... 14 December 2009

Grace did an interview with Q TV, found by Ted. Pierre found this picture of Grace onset of The Border:

And GrumpyOldFan made these:

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GRACE ATTENDS EVENT.... 7 December 2009

Grace attended a Talelight Films party a few days ago:

Across the village at the Mountain Club was another bash, this one held by Talelight Films, where actor Grace Park was enjoying her time back in B.C. after months in Toronto making CBC's The Border. She juggled work on that series with a role in L.A. opposite Benjamin Bratt in the U.S. cable TV drama The Cleaner.

She's set to shoot the gang drama Deadmonton for the Talelight guys at some point in the future. Not sure when, still waiting to see the first feature from those guys.

No pictures yet.

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WHEEEE!.... 6 December 2009

Ivan sent in some new pics and such! First up, Grace did an interview and was photographed for a Vancouver newspaper a year ago while promoting The Border:

Next, he found a digital Maxim mag that had these pics:

And last, but in no way least, this lovely, undated photoshoot:

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RANDOM PICS.... 6 December 2009

Added a bunch of pictures, marked as new:

Edgemont Promotional Images - 1

The Border Season Three Promotional Images - 1

The Cleaner 2x13 Trick Candles - 1

Battlestar Galactica Misc - 5

The Saturn Awards - 2 replaced, 1 new

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NEW OLD GRACE CREDIT.... 5 December 2009

IMDb shows that Grace was Bartender #2 in the pilot episode of a show called Dead Last. Never heard of it. It only had one season - and of the 13 episodes made only 8 aired, apparently.. The show's summary is:

Strange and supernatural with a humorous bent, Dead Last chronicles the misadventures of a fledgling rock band on the verge of being discovered when the rockers accidentally stumble upon a magical ancient amulet that gives them the power to see ghosts…whether they want to or not. Suddenly, their popularity skyrockets - if only with the dead - as they find themselves eternally stuck with the unwanted task of helping an endless parade of apparitions resolve their unfinished business so they can move on to the next world.

In the band, The Problem, are Vaughn Parrish (the brooding and charismatic guitarist and singer, who sometimes lets his ego get the better of him), Scotty Sallback (the band's hulking drummer whose rough-and-tumble exterior hides a good-natured soul) and Jane Cahill, (the beautiful bass player, who often serves as the peacemaker of the group, mediating artistic differences between the two guys).

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GRACE MENTION.... 2 December 2009

I mentioned a while back that Grace was expected at an ACTRA protest; there's been another mention about that:

He wore his nerdiest tie just for her
Ferne Downey, the national president of ACTRA, and several actors, were recently on the Hill for the opening of the CRTC hearings. “The actors are up here to talk about Canadian content while the big slugfest is going on between the broadcasters and cable companies,” says Downey. One star who was supposed to be there was Grace Park. She played “Boomer” on the TV series Battlestar Galactica, which wrapped up this year. Steven Fletcher, minister of state for democratic reform and a huge Battlestar Galactica fan, was very excited about meeting Park, who grew up in Canada. Says the Winnipeg MP: “I wore one of my nerdiest ties—it has the periodic table on it.” Then at the last minute Park had to cancel her trip. “I was stood up by a cylon,” laments Fletcher. Downey says Fletcher shouldn’t feel bad; he’ll get another opportunity to meet Park. “She sent me a personal email and said, ‘This is a Canadian cause, Ferne, anything I can do next time around, I am all yours.’ ”

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THE BORDER PROMOTIONAL IMAGES.... 2 December 2009

The new ones, first one HR and the last two small:

And this last one is a HR version of an old one:

Also, got a HR version of one of the Japan tour images:

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THE BORDER CAPS.... 29 November 2009

3x08 Dark Ride has been the most Grace-heavy episode so far. I got 317 caps (2 pages) from the episode:

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SORRY GUYS.... 26 November 2009

About the lack of updates. I've been trying to find a torrent for the seventh episode of The Border but Mininova has taken all of their torrents down and the others aren't very helpful. If anyone has one please let me know!

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NEW INTERVIEW.... 20 November 2009

Grace has done a new brief interview, this time with The Globe and Mail:

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HUUUUUUUGE MAXIM SCANS.... 13 November 2009

Dr Gaius Baltar gave us some scans of the Maxim magazine shoot. There are two scans of each page, one sized 4245x6000 (UHR) and the other 2123x3000 (HR). The huuuuuge scans are marked as such in the gallery. I was hoping someone could get such huuuuuge scans especially of the two pages full of smaller pics. Thanks, DGB!

Also, found a promo image for The Border's Hate Metal.

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TIDBITS.... 9 November 2009

A couple of interesting tweets today. First, the Winnipeg Jewish Theater posted this:

Did Jew Know? WJT approached BSG's Grace Park about appearing in one of our shows. We were rejected but we still love a toaster!

On the 16th, ACTRA a Canadian entertainment industry union is having a rally and they tweeted that Grace would be there:

Who'd win in a fight: Princess Marg or Battlestar's Number Eight? Must ask Mary Walsh and Grace Park at the #CRTC rally on the 16th!

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INTERVIEW WITH DRIVEN.... 8 November 2009

I don't recall having seen this interview before. It was done October 28 for Driven magazine. Katee, Tricia, Jamie, Tahmoh, and Michael also took part:

While you were filming BSG you played a Cylon, so did you know what the Cylon’s plan was back then?
GP: “While doing the show, I think we were always walking around, going, ‘What’s really the Cylons plan?’ because [producers] Robert [Moore] and David [Eick] were always saying, ‘We have a plan.’ Until we did this movie, I’ve got to tell you, none of the people who played Cylons actually knew what that plan was, so this answers a lot of questions for both fans and even the actors playing Cylons.”

Was it a relief to you to finally find out what the plan was?
GP: “I didn’t know if it was a relief. I guess having an answer felt more like closure.”

Did you grow up identifying closesly with the Asian community? What about these days, do you feel a part of a of the acting business and Hollywood?
GP: “It’s such a part of my fabric and who I am, just in my everyday living that I don’t really see a group of Asian-Americans and go, ‘I’m a part of that group.’ It’s just like, I think there was a young child, I can’t remember who it was exactly, but we were mentioning, ‘Oh, you’re half-Chinese and what’s the other? Or half-Korean?’ It was my cousin’s daughter, ‘And what’s your other half?’ And her parents were like, ‘No, no.’ We don’t like to say half and half because to them, they don’t see it split up. It’s just all mixed together. In that way, growing up in Vancouver, I didn’t really strongly identify with the Asian community necessarily, but maybe more the Korean community because my parents were always like, ‘Well, what are they going to think of you’ that kind of thing, they’re always worried about that. But not necessarily the Asian-American community so much. But acting of course, that’s something that I’ve been really into, but Hollywood, no, I’m not really connected to that really so much either. I mean, is anyone?”

If guess if you live here.
GP: “But even then, you go home and you go do your own thing, right? You don’t live in front of the spotlight unless you’re like Lindsay [Lohan] or Paris [Hilton].”

Along with Tricia and Katee, you are considered one of the Battlestar Babes. How have you dealt with your adoring fanboys over the years?
GP: “I’d say most of them have always been pretty behaved and very respectful. I think because of the character I played, I mean, I haven’t done Playboy like Tricia has, so I’m not going to have the same kind of fans that she has. But it’s a pretty polite country. People aren’t going to throw themselves at you. Which I don’t mind … throwing money is fine, too. No, I’m kidding.”

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THE BORDER 3X05 SCREENCAPS.... 7 November 2009

155 screencaps from 3x05 Missing In Action:

Grace + aviator glasses = hotness.

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THE PLAN SCREENCAPS.... 4 November 2009

I got The Plan and screencapped it. Not as much Boomer, and nothing new with Athena (!), as I'd hoped. I'm not a Cavil fan so him getting most of the screentime was a little annoying. I wish they'd had one of the more established BSG writers write the screenplay; I don't care for Jane Espenson. Anyway, 281 caps:

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THE BORDER.... 1 November 2009

I capped Hate Metal, Grace's first appearance (more or less) in the fourth season of The Border. There are 236 caps up:

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MORE MAXIM OUTTAKES.... 28 October 2009

Sam sent in a few more Maxim outtakes:

And this SyFy page contains a few behind-the-scenes videos of The Plan, including one with Grace.

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THE BORDER.... 25 October 2009

Well, Grace wasn't in the third episode. She's back in the next one. Official synopsis for Hate Metal:

Now back on active duty, DHS Agent Liz Carver tracks a murder suspect, the notorious white-supremacist Cole Thorpe, to Canada. Kessler assigns Gray to infiltrate Thorpe's British Columbia-based neo-Nazi operation. Carver still blames Gray for the 'Ndrangheta debacle and her own injuries. When Gray learns the neo-Nazis are planning a devastating act of racial terrorism, Carver must work with him to stop it.
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SOME MORE GALLERY UPDATES.... 24 October 2009

I haven't been able to find the third episode of The Border yet.

23 new images added to the 2007 SciFi Channel's Upfront Party

8 new images added to the 2007 Asian Excellence Awards

4 new images, 13 replaced images added to the 2009 Battlestar Galactica Auction

5 new images, 2 replaced images added to the Spike TV Scream Awards

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GALLERY UPDATES.... 22 October 2009

I've updated the gallery a bit:

13 new images have been added to the Emmy Awards

7 new images have been added to the David Letterman Show

8 new images have been added to the 25th Annual Television Critics Association Awards

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PETA CAMPAIGN AD.... 22 October 2009

Alexa found the ad for the PETA campaign Grace joined, Save the Seals. Thanks, Alexa!:

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NEWS TIDBITS.... 22 October 2009

Grace has joined a PETA campaign to stop the slaughter of baby seals:

Stars are lining up to pose in PETA's striking "Save the Seals" T-shirt for a brand-new ad series aimed at ending the slaughter. In addition to Teter, the celebs sporting the tee in the first installment of print ads launching this week are boxer "Sugar" Shane Mosley; pro cyclist Levi Leipheimer; Dancing With the Stars contestant Kelly Osbourne; CSI's Jorja Fox; celebrity blogger Perez Hilton; hunks Brody Jenner of The Hills and Bromance and Owain Yeoman of The Mentalist; Twilight star Christian Serratos; Jackass star Steve-O; Battlestar Galactica's Tricia Helfer and Grace Park; Playboy playmates Holly Madison and Jayde Nicole; 90210 alum Jennie Garth; indie rockers Animal Collective; The Office star Lucy Davis; actor Rachael Leigh Cook; and Natalie Dreyfuss of Rita Rocks. This summer, Sarah McLachlan previewed the PETA tee at a Canada Day concert, where the singer condemned the slaughter.
 

There's this comprehensive review of The Plan, featuring this bigger promo picture:

This even more comprehensive review from Latino Review contains a ton of pictures from The Plan:

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THE BORDER 3X01.... 21 October 2009

I capped the first episode of the third season of The Border. She's in it for like four seconds! Is she in the second episode? Anyway, here are the four caps I got from The Dead:

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MORE SCREAM PICTURES.... 20 October 2009

I replaced all but two of the Spike TV Scream Awards pictures with unwatermarked and larger versions. Another 23 pictures, mostly unwatermarked, have been added to that gallery. Thanks to Silvan for some of them!

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THE CLEANER SERIES FINALE.... 19 October 2009

I finally capped the last episode of the second season. 143 caps:

And Dr Gaius Baltar contributed scans from Maxim:

Also, Silent Lucidity is a fansite for Eights, especially Boomer and Athena. It's GPO's newest affiliate, check it out:

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SPIKE TV SCREAM AWARDS.... 18 October 2009

We have 24 pictures from the Scream Awards, only one unwatermarked just yet:

Also, apparently Grace attended the 2006 Blender Magazine and Glaceau Vitaminwater VMA After-Party:

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MAXIM "SCANS".... 17 October 2009

Ivan found the Maxim pdf and here are the pics:

I'll wait for scans from the magazine to add to the gallery since these are watermarked. I like a lot of those smaller pictures.

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A BUNCH OF GALLERY UPDATES INCLUDING MAXIM.... 16 October 2009

Thanks to Ivan, we have the following:

16 new pictures added to the 2003 Battlestar Galactica premiere

2 picture shave been replaced with larger versions and 1 new picture have been added to the 2004 NBC Universal BSG screening

5 new pictures have been added to 2005 San Diego Comic Con

2 new pictures have been added to 2005 NBC Network All-Star Celebration

8 new/replaced pictures have been added to the 2006 Asian Excellence Awards

12 new/replaced pictures added to the Annual William S. Paley Television Festival

14 new/replaced pictures added to the 2006 Spike TV Scream Awards

And thanks to Dr Gaius Baltar for finding these two Maxim pictures (I love the second one):

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MAXIM PHOTOSHOOT VIDEOS ETA.... 15 October 2009

The videos of the Maxim photoshoot that I linked to yesterday don't seem to be working. I'm not sure why because they are linked exactly the same as other videos hosted on this site. Hhmmm. So, I'm gonna link to the original source instead. Sorry about the confusion, guys: Video 1 and Video 2.

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MAXIM PHOTOSHOOT VIDEO SCREENCAPS CONT.... 14 October 2009

Jon grabbed a second Maxim video, which I capped. 63:

Oooh, I'd like some HR versions of her in the white tank.

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MAXIM PHOTOSHOOT VIDEO SCREENCAPS. 14 October 2009

Jon grabbed the Maxim photoshoot video and I screencapped it. 65:

BoomerNo8 made this 1024x600 wallpaper using one of the new FHM outtakes:

Thanks!

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MAXIM PICTURES. 14 October 2009

We have five more pictures from the Maxim shoot, one HR courtesy of Jon:

The website also had this preview of the article and a video:

When SyFy (’sup with the new spelling, fellas?) announced the two-hour movie, Battlestar Galactica: The Plan, a prequel-ish take from the Cylon’s point of view, we practically fraked ourselves—Tricia and Grace are gracing our flat-screens for two more precious hours. Is providing you with the sexiest photos ever the best way to send off a series that transformed geek to chic? Yes, and so say we all.

Since the new Battlestar movie is coming to DVD before TV, can we expect some R-rated action?
Tricia Helfer: There will certainly be a lot more explicit action on the DVD. And I refuse to have a body double, so you will see a little bit of skin from me as the Six character. There’s also a new character you’ll see in some very intense sex scenes.
Grace Park: Yeah, there’s going to be a T & A version. Though maybe I should say T, C & A, because it’s not just girls this time…
 

Want more of Tricia Helfer and Grace Park? Check out the November issue of Maxim on newsstands October 20th.

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MORE NEW PICTURES. 13 October 2009

The pictures have been marked as new:

I've added 1 new picture to Miscellaneous.

3 new pictures have been added to the David Letterman appearance.

9 new pictures have been added to the 2008 SciFi Upfront party.

4 have been added to the TIFF Entertainment Tonight party.

1 has been added to the TIFF Solitary Man after-party gallery.

14 of the Saturn Awards pictures have been replaced with larger unwatermarked versions. 3 new pic has been added.

Thanks to Ivan!

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GALLERY UPDATES. 12 October 2009

I've set up the gallery for The Border Season Three promotional images; there are currently four images there.

The first promotional image for The Plan has been added to the gallery.

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GALLERY CONVERTED. WHERE THE HELL IS THE BORDER? 10 October 2009

Regular updates will resume tomorrow now that I've finished with the new layout. If you see the occasional green link, ignore it. I'll fix that soon.

I dunno why ION didn't air The Border after issuing a press release saying they would. Annoying. I'll try and get caps up for that ASAP.

In actual Grace-related news: an article about Grace from the CBC which gives us a new picture of her from The Border. The official website for TB also had a new one:

Ted found the new Maxim cover of Grace and Tricia. They look ridiculously hot:

The Scream Awards will feature a BSG reunion for a farewell tribute. Edward James Olmos, Tricia Helfer, James Callis, Kate Vernon, Katee Sackhoff, Michael Trucco Tahmoh Penikett and David Eick will be there. It's on October 17th, and will air on the 27th.

Also, West 32nd is getting it's official dvd release on the 13th. DVD extras include: Audio Commentary with Director Michael Kang and Actors John Cho and Jun Kim, Deleted Scenes, Production Gag Reel, Music Video for Heather Park's "Leave Me To Dream", Interview with writers Michael Kang and Edmund Lee, and the Official Trailer.

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