If you were human, you'd be a slut, but since you're an alien, you're just out there.' Fantastic - thanks Ben!"Ĭhiana's flirting with Crichton when she arrived on the show disturbed some John/Aeryn relationship fans. She will use her manipulative wiles because she's not that strong.' He told me, 'It's like this. Ben said, 'Chiana is right on the edge, and she will use her sexuality to fool around with other people's heads. "I was having a chat with Ben the other day because the writers wanted me to do a pretty nasty thing, and I thought, no one's going to like me after this! She becomes quite intimate with one of the opposing team, against Moya's crew's wishes, and it was making me feel out of line. He is really respected and deals with his position extremely well."īrowder also helped her deal with the complexities of playing Chiana, who isn't always the nicest person, "nothing like me," laughs the actress. "I've been in some productions where they treat the supporting cast very separately, but on Farscape it seems to be really equal. "Ben treats everyone really well," she notes.
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Edgley credits her comfort level partly to Ben Browder, whom she jokes is "absolutely nuts" but praises as a terrific professional in his role as Crichton. Still, it was very intimidating to join a cast that had been together for most of the season already. Moya's pretty dark, this set that I've never been on before, so I'm tripping over cables and shaking the wrong people's hands. The whole time, they were testing out these contact lenses that were ink blue all the way over, so I couldn't see a thing. I went onto the set to meet the producers and directors. "I sat down and did my meditation, walked into the room with my headphones in, my hair in a mat, and there were these six gorgeous creatures sitting there just beautifully immaculate, very comfortably dressed, no makeup, nothing, and I thought, 'Oh god, what have I done? You've gone a bit too far this time, Gig.'"īut the producers were impressed with her acting, and when Chiana emerged after five hours in the makeup trailer, she became part of Farscape's universe. She thought she might have miscalculated when she tried to behave in character for her first reading. "So I'm an alien, and my brother's life disc is inside me, and we're warding off these other aliens that are trying to mentally cleanse us.how can I parallel this to my life?"Įdgley underwent five rounds of auditions and grueling makeup and optometry fittings to win the role of Chiana, which she wanted desperately because she loved the character and was excited at the prospect of being in a Jim Henson Company production. "At the university, we studied parallelling things in our lives to get the emotions and the depth of the scene," recalls the fast-talking, bubbly actress.
Nothing she studied in her drama classes at Queensland University of Technology could have prepared her for the cutting-edge prosthetic makeup and the state-of-the-art puppetry on Farscape, which are unlike anything else on television at present. "I think she's still learning the ways of the world, and the spirit of adventure constantly whisks her away," says Edgley, who relates to that aspect of her character. Despite her knack for lying, stealing, seducing, and using deadly weapons, Chiana has since discovered that she may have a heart of gold - but it's a pain in the butt to deal with in the treacherous region where Moya travels.
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The young Australian actress, who came onto the series for what was originally supposed to be just a couple of episodes, has barely had time to catch her breath since becoming a series regular, playing an alien criminal from a planet where nonconformists face mental reprogramming. You get to a scene, then, 'OK, here I am - what have I done with you before? Do I still like you? Did we have a fight? Oh no no no, we've just made love, of course!'"
"We're up to the finale of season two, so we're trying to finish all these elements, and jumping between three different ADRs for dubbing. "I think we're shooting four different episodes at the moment," she explains. Gigi Edgley's a little cross-eyed these days, and not just because of the colored contacts she wears for her role as Chiana on Farscape.
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