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1. Though he initially turned it down because of his iconic sci-fi turn in Blade Runner, Olmos changed his mind after finally reading the script, especially Moore's manifesto. And during the filming of the mini-series, he proved to be just as much of a lead off-screen as Commander Adama was on-screen, "galvanizing" the entire cast and crew by delivering an epic speech in his trailer during the first week of filming.
"He sat us all down as the cast and went, ‘The show is going to go for five years. Five years. Every episode is going to be like a movie. Keep your powder dry. We're in this for the long haul. No one is to make fun of this,'" Callis recalled at the ATX TV Festival, and while he admitted he thought the actor was "raving mad" at first, it ended up setting he tone for the entire series.
2. Similarly, Adama's now-infamous catchphrase "So say we all!" was actually an ad-lib from Olmos during filming, with the actor repeating the line until the entire cast and group of extras began chanting it as well. "It was just something Eddie came up with on his own in the moment, and then it became a signature line in the series after that," Moore reflected in So Say We All. "That was a big thing."