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Interview  |  Claudia Black
End of the line?

Picture Will the mini-series be the last Farscape we see?

Well, I've been wrong every single year. When they said, "Oh we're definitely coming back", [I'd say], "I wouldn't have thought so, this show's too difficult, it wears people out, it's so expensive to make, I don't think we'll find anyone to pick up the tab each year." Every year we did.

Then finally, the last season, when everyone's going, "Ooh, I don't think it's going to happen," I'm going, "Oh, of course it will. Every year we say it won't and it does, of course it will, this is a show that never ends." And I was wrong. Though in a way I suppose I was right when the mini-series came back, but I didn't think that Brian would be able to get everyone back, and I didn't think he'd get the money to rebuild, it just didn't seem possible.

So, my instinct is now, knowing Brian Henson and knowing Farscape, and also knowing that it's going to some form of syndication, I know that he will do his very very best to keep the franchise and name of Farscape going, and I know that if Ben's doing it, I'm doing it.

Would you do an animation?

Yeah, absolutely. What fun. The slightly objective response I had when I heard we weren't going again for season five is that I wouldn't have the pleasure of watching Aeryn and Crichton on screen together. I really loved their story, I loved watching them on screen together, and I hope that isn't a narcissistic statement because I really genuinely believe I am detatching myself from it.

It was always a joy to watch what they were doing in the writing room with Aeryn and John, and it was always fun to watch it on screen. It was always so dramatic and they were funny. The characters - I think they will endure and I think they will last, and knowing Brian, if he has anything to do with it, I think we haven't heard the last of Farscape. We've rounded off the circle, we've finished off a chapter.



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