That Time Katee Sackhoff Didn't Sleep For 3 Straight Days Shooting Battlestar Galactica
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In order to take the lead role as time traveling teenager Marty McFly in Back to the Future, Michael J. Fox famously agreed to a nightmarish schedule where he'd film episodes of Family Ties during the day and the seminal Zemeckis film at night.

“The only way that they would let me do it is if I was shooting Battlestar during the day and White Noise 2 at night,” she recalled to co-host and executive producer Kristian Harloff on the latest episode of her new podcast — Blah Blah Blah. “My mom came to Vancouver with me and stayed awake with me to keep me through it and help me with my dog.”