Sci Fi Wire: 9/26/06
Pratt: Don't Call Day Break SF
Victoria Pratt, who stars in ABC's upcoming surreal drama Day Break, told SCI FI Wire that she doesn't consider it a science fiction show. Day Break stars Taye Diggs as Brett Hopper, a narcotics cop who's been framed for murder, who relives the same day over and over again. Pratt (Mutant X) plays Andrea Battle, Hopper's partner.
"There is obviously an element of the unknown," Pratt said in an interview. "I guess it depends on what your definition of science fiction is. There is an element of the unknown, but nobody other than Hopper knows it. The rest of the characters, we're just living our lives completely oblivious to the fact that this day is repeating. So I just get up, and I do my thing. My day has changed because of information I've learned or because of things that happen around me, but in my character's eyes, I'm just waking up, and it's another day. Hopper is the only one who might wake up and think he's in the middle of a sci-fi show, but it's definitely not played for that. It's a mystery, really."
Pratt said that "the whole show is based on relationships." Hopper is a man dealing with several fractured relationships, and Battle's relationship with him is one of the most fractured. "We're partners, but there's a distance," she said. "He's been doing something that he hasn't been telling me about. I've been doing something that I haven't been telling him about. We've got secrets from each other. Ultimately it's his job to find a way to repair these relationships. So our relationship is a very interesting one, because there's obviously a closeness, a love that comes from protecting each other and watching each other's back, but as much as you care for a person, that's how much you can hurt them by withdrawing and by being secretive. So it's a very neat dynamic between the two of us."
Pratt added: "Most of my interactions are with Hopper and with Adam Baldwin's character, Chad Shelton, the head of internal affairs. My character is being investigated by internal affairs. So my career is kind of on the line, and I'm always doing things to endanger my career. They've explained to me that I'm a good person doing all the wrong things for all the right reasons. It's a really neat, neat line to walk." Day Break debuts Nov. 15 and will air Wednesdays at 9 p.m. ET/PT, the timeslot vacated by Lost, which takes a midseason break. —Ian Spelling
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