GigiEdgley

Aw thank you so much! I'm absolutely honored and over the moon that you would say that.

And to tell you the truth, if they asked me to play Chiana every day of my life, I would do it, because I'm SO in love with that character. It's very rare that you get to play leads that are really strong and complex, and people spend SO much time and energy designing the character. She was such an amazing role for me to play - I was only 23 when I took her on, originally I was meant to play her for only 1 episode. I looked at her when they put the makeup on me - and I said "I want to BE an alien." I like to really get into my roles, inside out, and I grew up loving THE DARK CRYSTAL and LABYRINTH- and I wanted to create an alien that fit seamlessly into the Jim Henson world. No one ever told me to make crazy movements, I just went "It's not every day you get asked to play an alien, so I fell into it!" and wanted to make her so nonhuman. So that's how she came about.

We actually had a long rehearsal with the other actors - not quite sure what happened on the day, but there was definitely some difference between Chiana's movements and her species. Not quite sure what happened there, but I was never going to shy away from making her as alien as possible. No matter what the rest of my species was doing! :)

So, as i was saying before, it's very rare that you get to play female leaders that are sensational and intriguing, and X ( the character) has all these elements in her. She's an extremely compelling woman. And there's just an absolute infinity of possibilities with the costumes, the visual FX, because it's us in 50 years time. It's set on the way we are moving forward with social media, and online dating, and YouTube - it's set in that world, and this character is completely mesmerized. She thinks her life is perfect, and she has it all together, and then slowly and not so surely, everything starts to crumble. And it's a REALLY really intriguing process to watch. It's very relevant to what WE go through.

It's like something I say to my husband - he has to say good morning to me before he says good morning to his iPhone.

Cuz we're all getting so mind-swept, so infatuated by modern technology, sometimes we forget about the real things in life. It's a very relevant story that needs to be told.

All they told me is that she was a minx, and she was a runaway, and there were specific notes about her character emotionally. But nothing that led me to believe that she had to have interesting movements. Nothing they told me led me in that direction. When they put me in the makeup, I saw myself and thought I can just go wild! So I created these movements that to me seemed alien - I didn't want people to think I was a human in alien makeup, I wanted to be a very strong Jim Henson character from another world. I wanted to make her unbelievably believable.

I was onset for the JHCSC and Brian Henson held up a yellow envelope and he said "Guess what this is" and I said "What?" and he said it's the Farscape Movie! And then I tried to grab it off him, and he said "No, it's not ready yet." So I do know there's a script out there, it exists, but I don't know who's involved in it, what level, and if it happens - I am praying to ALL THE GODS it will happen, it would be so good to have the gang together again. I miss them!

3 and a half hours, every day. The first makeup test was about 5-6 hours. But they got it to 3.5 hours, every day. We shot 5 years, over 5 days a week, anywhere from 12-16 hours 5 days a week. And it took a good hour to get it off, because it was up the nose, in the ears, fake eyelashes, wigs, just the whole outfit was quite the process!

I'd get home at night, and my boyfriend would be looking at me and see some makeup still on and say "Oh, I see some Chiana in there!"

Someone asked what other films I've been working on: So, it's interesting, I'm originally from Australia. Straight after FARSCAPE, I went on a leading role on the show THE SECRET LIFE OF US, and then that led onto another show called STINGERS, and then we did THE PEACEKEEPER WARS, the Farscape miniseries, and then I did a feature film which was called LAST TRAIN TO FREO, where they nominated me for best leading actress, which was pretty exciting, and then I moved to America, and I cowrote my own film called NOBODY KNOWS. I shot a sci-fi called SHOWDOWN AT AREA 51, and then I actually was looking for work for some time, and I'd met my boyfriend at the time, and I said "I think i'm going to Australia because I think I can get a job there." And he said "Why are you going to go back to Australia for the perfect job? And at this point, my boyfriend (who now is my husband) - he used to be a mechanical engineer, but he did not appreciate working in a cubicle behind a computer and under fluorescent lights. He's always had a passion for mountain unicycling, all around the world! And he'd also - in his mech engineering course- built a 12 foot unicycle that he used to perform in parades. So he went to LA, and realized that he wanted to be a street performer. So now that's what he does. So at this stage, I'd run out of money and I didn't know what to do because I'd put my last cents into NOBODY KNOWS, so he said "Why don't you street perform with me?'

I thought that was a ridiculous idea, and then we street performed outside for 2 years. We traveled all around America. And we lived literally in a walk-in cupboard, of a huge house. I think it's cool when I meet fans who are so excited - I always say to people - "If I can make it, anyone can" - just stay positive even though sometimes you can't get the funds to eat!

For literally 1.5 years, we lived in a walk-in cupboard, there were about 12 other people who lived in this big house, and we liked the cupboard because it was our own space. We had nothing, but we had each other, which was perfect.

And then I had an audition for RESCUE: SPECIAL OPS, and then we did a month - I was the leading lady for 3 seasons on RESCUE: SPECIAL OPS. So it's an interesting life for an actor or actress. An absolute roller-coaster ride. One minute you can be living in a cupboard, the next you can be a leading lady on a top-rated show on a red carpet.