There was an overlap between finishing Pitch Black and starting Farscape and there were some complications. The producers had to liase and I almost didn't get the job on Farscape - I'd completely forgotten about that actually!

Brian said to me afterwards, 'you know, we thought very hard and it almost didn't happen.' I didn't realise how serious it had got. At one point I actually had to ring David Kemper - he'd left me his number - and say 'I've heard that this may not happen and I'm about to get the news that you've had to pass and go to someone else,' and he said, 'No, no, no, no you'll get it. We're making it happen, so just sit tight and we'll make it work,'.

I was very lucky though, more often than not in those circumstances when people are paying a lot of money to wait, they won't.