What will you miss most about working on Farscape?
I try not to get attached to things so... the money, of all of those things. Just having a regular income as an actor. In Australia you're never paid terribly well. It's better than not working as an actor but in America there's a residual system, so we do have to now go out and search for more work because it's not the wage that keeps on giving as it is in the States.
I can't believe that I won't see more of Aeryn and Crichton together on screen. That's really hit home for me, the fact that something about them has to crystallise and visually end where we leave it at the end of season four. I am, as I've said before, a desperate romantic and I really believe that what we created is substantial enough between the two of them that the audience will rest assured that there's a happy ending.
I'll miss so many things about not doing Farscape. We'd been talking about it when we were waiting to hear whether we'd get season five. We were all starting to become very sentimental and reminisce a lot. [I'll miss] the people first and foremost. It becomes a family and, unlike other circuses, this one won't move on as an ensemble. We'll all scatter and all the co-production people will go across the world. Australia's a very long way to travel to anywhere from anywhere.
Aeryn was the most incredible character to play - she was just phenomenal. It may sound like bias, but she was definitely one of the most interesting, if not the most interesting, characters. Because she had the greatest development to take place and it was through a man and through love that it was going to happen, it just ticked a lot of my boxes as a performer. Because it was a romantic arc, it was stimulating. A lot of it at the beginning was controlled by the producers and how much they wanted to reveal of her character developing at any given time, but then the story started to take over. The character started to take over in her own way.
I will miss, perhaps more than anything, working with Ben Browder. He was the most incredible leading man, he was a phenomenal working friend and we just had such a great chemistry working together. We just understood each other, and didn't really need to discuss anything. We rarely talked about a scene, we just understood it and would go in and do it. Having that kind of rapport with an actor and it getting better and better... We never had a single fight. We had one tense moment one point in season one, very early on, when I was a bit grouchy and he was very gentlemanly about it. How can I possibly expect to find other colleagues to work with like that? Other leading men - second to none. [I feel] so privileged to have had the opportunity to play both the character and to play side by side with Ben.
The crew are the faces you see every morning and last at night before you go home. I spend more time with those people than I do with my friends and family, so they're forever a part of you and who you become as an actor so I hope I see them again. The fans, I know, will always be there, so I can't miss them because they're not going to go - I don't think!
