Women of Fall TV: Maggie Q

UGO.com has dedicated a photo gallery of Nikita's Maggie Q. Wooohoo! Lyndsy was in one of the pictures with Maggie.

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Women of Fall TV: Maggie Q
By Kevin Fitzpatrick

Living TV's Nikita show page

Nikita has premiered in the UK. It is being aired by Living TV. Check out the show page they created for Nikita. The site also has interviews of Maggie and Lyndsy.

Excerpts from the (short) interview:

On Maggie:

He didn’t duck. Do you like how I don’t directly say it was his fault? But I am like, if you don’t want to get hit, you gotta duck!

(She's a real kick-ass!)

On Lyndsy:

Alex is just really complex, and so is Nikita. These women are complex, like in real life, you are not always just one thing, and the writing really holds up to that.

If you are curious about Nikita's ratings in the UK, you can check out this TV Ratings UK page. Pretty decent numbers for Nikita. YAY!

No work for Nikita stars Lyndsy, Melinda, Tiffany, Shane and Aaron

Thanks to the tweets of Lyndsy and we knew that she and other Nikita stars Melinda Clarke, Tiffany Hines, Shane West and Aaron Stanford watched a football game yesterday. They watched a game between Buffalo Bills and Chicago Bears, who won the game.

* Off to the bills game!! With #Nikita

* Get ready!

(Lyndsy looks like a super sweet girl in this pic.)

* Too fun!

(Shane West is so hot in that pose!)

* Thank goodness for days off!

(She sure does look like she's having fun. Good for her!)

Melinda Clarke may not be in any of the pictures but she was with the Nikita gang. And rooting for the American team.

* Bills- Bears! My first football game!!!!! Go Bears!!!!

Update:
Tiffany Hines posted a few days later a pic of Lyndsy and her wearing pigtails.

Apparently every female cast member of #Nikita decided pigtails were the perfect football game accessories

Aww, its nice to know that our Nikita stars do hang out outside of work.

Craig Silverstein Interview

Craig Silverstein is the executive producer of our beloved show Nikita. Snippets from The Collider interview:

On doing another version of Nikita:

I had to take it upon myself to find a way that it could be done fresh, where you didn’t know how this story was going to end. That’s when I came upon the idea of following Nikita after she had left the agency, which is a chapter that’s never been told.

About the Nikita character:

I think it’s a mini-mythology now, like Batman or James Bond. Obviously, it’s not to that level, but people know it. It’s been done enough now that it’s got its own myth attached to it, and the powerful thing about it is that there’s a very fairytale aspect to the whole story. It’s a dark fairytale.

Casting Maggie Q:

It had to be someone who was beautiful, who could fight, who you could believe holding a gun and who you believed was smart, in order to plan everything that she was doing. You’d think those things would be easy to find in an actor, and they’re not. We had actors come in and these girls would be gorgeous and smart, but you’d put a gun in their hands and it didn’t work. The second we heard Maggie’s name, Danny Cannon, our director, and I looked at each other and were like, “Yes!” It was really early on in the process.

Casting Lyndsy Fonseca:

She was intense when she came in to audition. We were like, “Woah!” I don’t think you’ll be thinking of her as the girl next door for much longer.

Nikita vs Alex? Uh oh.

And then, Alex and Nikita’s relationship is also going to start to fray. There will be conflict all around.

Interested to read the full article? Read here.

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Executive Producer Craig Silverstein Interview NIKITA
by Christina Radish

Thursday Tweets of the Nikita Stars

Thursday night is Nikita night so expect loads of tweets from our Nikita stars.

Devon Sawa

* #nikita tonight at 9.

* Everybody NOT in the UK, fly there and watch me on NIKITA.... Everybody IN the UK turn to Living(?) tonight at some point. THANKS MATES!

* watched and loved this weeks #nikita.... glad I was a part of such great TV!

Tiffany Hines

* It's Thurs y'all! U kno wat dat means! Another new epi of #Nikita! on CW @ 9pm! & Get ready cause Jaden returns Nov 11 & causes trbl 4 alex!

Lyndsy Fonseca

* Tonight! #Nikita. http://t.co/pRIMiM3 via @youtube

Melinda Clarke
(unrelated tweet but nonetheless a 'Nikita' tweet)

* Just finished an 15 hour day on set of #nikita with Maggie Q. All I can say..She's a rock star! I'm in awe!!!

More Alex and Thom!

I like the Alex-Thom more than the Alex-Michael love team. So I was delighted with this tweet today from Lyndsy Fonseca:

I'm going to kick @ashtonholmes ass today : )

To which Ashton Holmes replied:

Psshtt. What she means is... Well... ya see... uch... whatever. RT @LyndsyMFonseca: I'm going to kick @ashtonholmes ass today : )

Love, love, love :)

Adding 1 more to the Twitter list: Melinda Clarke

Melinda Clarke joined Twitter an hour ago! Yay! That's her first tweet below:



And she quickly sent tweets to her co-stars:

For Tiffany Hines:

@tiffanyhines1 Hi Tiffany! My first day on twitter! How's the fight scene going?

For Lyndsy Fonseca:

@LyndsyMFonseca Hi Lyndsay. My first day on twitter. Like the pic with Pedro. Cute! What's the ransom?

Ashton Holmes tweeted this awhile ago:

Ladies and gents, please follow @TheRealMsClarke because she is as witty as she is sexy.

Updated list as of posting:

Tiffany Hines (Jaden)
Lyndsy Fonseca (Alex)
Ashton Holmes (Thom)
Devon Sawa (Owen)
Bug Hall (Robbie)
Melinda Clarke (Amanda)

Let me know if I missed anyone :)

Early calltime for our Nikita stars?

Lyndsy tweeted this:

5:30am. At work. #nikita. Too early!!!

WHAT?!? Wondering if its a 5:30 am calltime or they haven't finished taping yet at that hour.

But I think Lyndsy is having fun because she posted this after:

Pedro kidnapped! #MaggieQ

She kidnapped Maggie Q's cat? If she did, that's funny :) I wonder if they will have to do some action scenes before Pedro will be rescued from his kidnapper :)

EOnline interviews Maggie Q and Lyndsy Fonseca at SDCC

Kristin Dos Santos interviews Maggie Q and Lyndsy Fonseca at the San Diego Comic-Con 2010.

Maggie Q



Lyndsy Fonseca

TV.com's Beth Lisick catches up with the cast of Nikita

Another video from the San Diego Comic-Con 2010.

Nikita: The Femme Fatale Lives Again

Hollywood 411 gives you a sneak peek at The CW's Nikita, the latest incarnation of the iconic femme fatale. Star Maggie Q, a Jackie Chan protege, talks about the series and recalls how she knocked out an actor who got too close.

Maggie Q and Lyndsy Fonseca at SDCC 2010

The Nikita panel at SDCC 2010 consisted of Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca and Craig Silverstein. No Shane West though.


It has fantastic panoramic pics of the Nikita panel. Check out the slideshow here. The Nikita pics are after the Community (Joel McHale! But love the Abed and Troy duo.) pics.

And here's a short video from that panel.

Nikita Panel at NYCC 2010 Part 2

Found another set of pictures of the Nikita panel at the NYCC 2010. Towards the end of the set, you will see pictures of the cast of V.


View the slideshow here.

Nikita Panel at NYCC 2010

Found this great set of pictures from the recently-concluded NYCC 2010. On the panel are the Nikita stars Maggie Q (of course!), Shane West and Lyndsy Fonseca.


View the pics here.

Here's a video of them at the same event.

Video Interviews on Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca, and Shane West at NYCC

TV Guide interviews Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca and Shane West at the New York Comic Con.

Maggie Q


Nikita's Maggie Q talks about Nikita and Owen's complicated relationship, what might happen if she took down Division and how she trains for her fighting scenes.

Lyndsy Fonseca


Nikita's Lyndsy Fonseca talks about Alex's connection with Tom and whether she'll eventually side with the other recruits at Division.

Shane West


Nikita's Shane West hints about what we'll learn of Michael's backstory.

Stumbled across Media Geek and they have posted the same videos in their website. Except for Shane West's interview which they have wrongly titled as Shane Black. Just in case Media Geek corrects the video interview page of Shane West, here's a screencap of the page as of posting:

Romance on the action-packed show Nikita?

Well, we have seen some Alex-Thom romance and there's definitely sexual tension between Nikita and Michael. Here's what Maggie Q, Lyndsy Fonseca and Shane West have to say about that:

Maggie Q:

"My theory is that we fight because we can't have sex," Maggie surmises about their relationship, when we check in with her at New York Comic Con.

Shane West:

"It's not hard to bring Michael and Nikita together," West explains later. "It's really hard to keep them apart...We're barely into the season yet, so why not keep teasing?"

Lyndsy Fonseca:

Fonseca admits her character has feelings for the poor guy but that she's also using him. More important, "I think Alex is maybe not quite ready [for a relationship]," she says.

Head over to EOnline for the full read.

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Can Romance Ever Really Blossom on Nikita?
By Breanne L. Heldman

Happy Halloween!

Seems like our Nikita stars have a different take on Halloween. Check out their tweets:

Ashton Holmes (Thom)

Eff you Halloween. You suck.

Devon Sawa (Owen)

I hate every holiday except National Pancake Day. Which is March 8th this next year.

Lyndsey Fonseca

Going out!

She also previously posted these pics:

People r already dressing up at work!

Rita "working"

Like that pic of Rita. Looks like the training area.

Tiffany Hines (Jaden)

Chillin on set waiting to shoot this scene, then off to dress up for some kickass Halloween fun! Woohoo

And she dressed up as Cleopatra. Fierce!

@StevieBrock Cleopatra! What about u?

Seems like out Nikita stars were hard at work before they could go off to Halloween parties :) That's nice to know though :)

Happy Halloween fellow Nikita fans! What's your costume this year?

Twitter Accounts of Nikita Stars

Well, well, well. So far so good. My list of Nikita stars with Twitter accounts is accurate as confirmed by Tiffany Hines' tweet today.

So lotta peeps askin 4 #Nikita actors legit Twitter @LyndsyMFonseca @ashtonholmes @DevonESawa and me aka @tiffanyhines1 r only official ones

Lyndsey Fonseca's take on Alex and Amanda

For me, Amanda's character is scary. You know that she can break you emotionally. But you can see in the episodes that Alex will not be an easy one for Amanda. Lyndsey Fonseca has this to say about Amanda:

"Amanda is definitely not somebody Alex likes," Fonseca tells Zap2it during a break. "Amanda symbolizes someone very negative to Alex. That will always be somewhat of a barrier."

Alex is almost as tough as Nikita so you'd admire her easily as much as you'd admire Nikita:

"There's not a whole lot that can scare Alex," Fonseca observes. "She's not afraid of dying. She's been through it all -- you name it, she went through it."

Go read the full article here.

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'Nikita': Lyndsy Fonseca shows off her tattoos
By Hanh Nguyen

Season 1 Episode 11

I am on Twitter-mode (see previous post) and read this tweet of Lyndsey last Tuesday:

Wow! Is all I can say after reading episode 11 #Nikita. Best one yet. I'm in shock.

A little more wait for us but for sure it will be worth the wait.