It’s kind of impossible not to like Katee Sackhoff. Almost anyone who was ever a fan of Battlestar Galactica was infatuated with her portrayal of fighter pilot Captain Kara “Starbuck” Thrace.

Beyond that, it’s generally hard not to like an actress who doesn’t mince words, especially after a day of giving interviews. Doing press at last week’s Comic-Con International, Sackhoff sat down with Wired.com to, ostensibly, discuss her voiceover work as Black Cat in the videogame Spider-Man: Edge of Time (out in October) and the animated film Batman: Year One, which premiered at Comic-Con and will be released on DVD this fall.

But it wasn’t long before the conversation went in every direction possible in the best way possible. In the span of 10 minutes, Sackhoff gamely responded to questions about her voiceover work, almost getting Evangeline Lilly’s role in Real Steel and how she wants to turn her name into memeworthy verb.

(Warning: Lots of frakking swearing to follow.)

Wired.com: How’s your Comic-Con been so far?

Katee Sackhoff: It’s good. This is the shortest and sweetest Comic-Con I’ve ever had. I did a panel last night, at 10 o’clock. Who does a panel at 10 o’clock? Like, I’d already had three drinks. I mean my panel was hysterical. [Batman: Year One voiceover co-star] Bryan Cranston at one point, [there's a] little thing that says keep in mind that there are persons under the age of 18 in the audience, and he read it to me as I was on the panel and was like, “Well, that cat’s out of the bag.”

Wired.com: Oh no.

Sackhoff: Exactly. It’s like, “You should’ve read that to me 45 minutes ago before I started dropping F-bombs and turned ‘Sackoff’ into a verb.”

Wired.com: Wait, what would that verb mean?

Sackhoff: It’s just like, “You’ve been Sackhoffed.” Bryan Cranston turned it into some sort of sexual undertone thing. I was like, “Wow.”

Wired.com: Thanks, Cranston.

Sackhoff: Yeah, hashtag-Sackhoff [#Sackhoff]. We’re going to start it on Twitter. There’s going to be T-shirts. I need to copyright that shit immediately. You can’t really copyright someone’s name can you?

Wired.com: Well, you can, because it’s yours.

Sackhoff: It’s mine. But someone else couldn’t do it though, right?

Wired.com: I don’t think so. But in terms of the swearing, Kristen Stewart even cursed during the Twilight panel and it was at 11 a.m. She just said she was so “goddamn nostalgic” about the film. She seemed mortified.

‘I’ve been alive longer than Kristen Stewart — I’m allowed to drop F-bombs at this point.’

Sackhoff: Yeah, well, that’s “goddamn,” it’s not like she said, “I’m so fucking nostalgic.” That’s me. But I’ve been alive longer than her — I’m allowed to drop F-bombs at this point.

Wired.com: So how was the Spider-Man: Edge of Time panel?

Sackhoff: It was easy. That was the smallest panel I’ve ever done at Comic-Con. I don’t know if I would’ve been able to stand up and purr in front of 4,000 people.

Wired.com: You had to stand up and purr?

Sackhoff: Oh, I stood up and purred. When you’re playing the videogame and you pause a character, they stand in the background and make a noise so that you know that they’re still in play. And I was like, “Can I purr?” And they said, “No, Katee, you cannot purr.” And I was like “Why? She’s a cat.” And it just sounded massively sexual, so … yeah they wouldn’t let me purr.

Wired.com: So you don’t purr in the game?

Sackhoff: No, I do, just not continuously. That would’ve been awkward just continuously purring for like 10 minutes while someone microwaves their pizza-tinos or whatever.

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