Definitely, the cast had a lot of input. Which for many of the cast was new, and not something they were used to.

There's a whole gamut of television shows, [where] sometimes the actors are just, "Come here, stand here, stand on this mark, say your lines, go home, take your pay check". Other shows are much more open on bringing the actors in and saying, "What do you think about this? Is this working for you? Is this not working for you? What can you bring to it?" Farscape was more toward the latter, which was a lot of fun for everybody involved, because we would have actors coming up and saying "I like this, I don't like this, could you do this for me? Could you do that for me?"

That really only works well when you have a committed cast who are in it more for the show than for their own egos, and that was certainly the case on Farscape. It was never a case of an actor coming over to us and saying, "I don't have enough to do," or, "I think I should be doing this." It was more like, "What about this? Would this be fun?"

We had a very generous cast that would also not hesitate to say, "Look, I think this is more something Chiana should be doing than what I should be doing," so it was always about the show first and never about themselves. Which is marvellous.