What was the most fun you ever had on set? Question sent in by Vicki
Thanks Vicki, hi darling.
The most fun I had on set, well, this is a long one.
All of the cast were in the Main Command [on Moya] and we were all facing the window, and we were supposed to imagine that Marauders were racing towards us. It was a high tension moment. And it was a moment where there was no dialogue. The cameras were behind us, looking at all of our shoulders, facing the window, and Pilot was speaking.
Anthony Simcoe, who plays D'Argo, he's hilariously funny. He's always playing pranks and saying things to make you laugh in the middle of a take, and of course, you can't. But in this particular instance, none of our faces were on camera, and none of us were actually engaged in conversation, so he was able to make some noise.
So he started to tell us exactly what he planned to do to all the women in the Marauder ships, and it was extremely blue in nature. I can't tell you any more than it involved dairy products and a dreadful act that was in [the film] Last Tango in Paris.
I won't go into it any more but we all blushed every colour imaginable, we roared with laughter, we nearly fell over ourselves, because he put on a girly voice, "This is what I'd like to do to you, you naughty marauding girl."
We were laughing so much that if the camera had seen us from the front we'd all have been going "aaah." The camera just saw us from the back, and our shoulders were wobbling so much that they had to cut in the end, but some of it did make it to screen. Because Moya is a living ship, the camera always had to tilt [from side to side] to give the impression that we were floating in space and the ship was breathing, so it didn't matter so much that our shoulders were wobbling.
I think that was the most hilariously funny moment that I ever encountered in Farscape. I wish I could tell you the story, I really do, but it's so horribly X rated, it's dreadful, but it's funny.