Gigi Edgley, the youngest member of the FARSAPE cast, goes through the ups and downs of making the show with as much calm as she can muster. Season Three had highs and lows for her both off screen and in her role as Chiana, on.

Edgley explained, "this season, there's been lots of unexpected choices, character choices, and challenges. There has been a lot if intense stuff going on in my life which has definitely [affected] Chiana's journey through it all."

Chiana's troubles reached the boiling point by the second episode, "Suns and Lovers," when D'argo discovered that she was sexually involved with his son Jothee (Matt Newton). It was difficult for Edgley to play Chiana's betrayal. She recalled, "It was a very challanging thing to accept, to let go and try and rediscover the old Chiana, what Chiana is like when she is scared out of her wits. She reverts back to those alien characteristics that we have known and loved - or known and feared - of her in the early days. Once you trust that choice there was a lot of you could do with it."

"Matt Newton was extrodinarily fun to play with, and some really funny experiences popped up. In one of the love scenes, we were taking Chiana from just a normal face makup, to the whole body. We put this modesty patch on - we were doing the whole alien sex thing. Right in between the takes, the modesty patch just flew off, and there is Gigi in her glory. I am thinking, What a glamorous job this is."

Edgley does have mixed feelings about Chiana's darkness, but enjoyed getting into the strangeness of "Eat Me." Edgley said, "Whan you get guest-cast and they don't know where you have taken CHiana already, you can show them the deepest and the darkest characteristics of this alien that you are playing. I was having a tense time in my life as well so that was coloring a lot of the choices I made. Right after [Chiana's] been cloned she is hiding and saying: "Just one Chiana. Not two Chianas. No, this is me, isn't it?" How many times do we wake up and ask ourselves that? How many situations do we sit down and go "Did I just say that? Was that me?" It was a fantastic ep to go a bit nutty on and to make sure you had really strong desires to take you there."

Edgley added, "There was lovely stuff with D'argo in there. We got to show a few connections betwen the two characters. It was beautiful playing with Anthony in the scene where she comes in and she thinks that this friend and the person that she almost loved has dissapeared. Then she walks in, and there is this odd sutuation with this wierd girl jumping all over him. All of a sudden we see a Chi that we haven't quite often seen before."

In "Eat Me" Chiana and Jool got time to interact. Laughs Edgley, "We are both quite high-pitched. It was really hard to try and maintain out own rythm. Then, half way through the scenes, Tammy would start speaking in American, and then I'd sort of go to Aussie. Becayse they are quite similar in physique and also in voice quality, we were trying to maintain the tension between them but still maintain our own sense of identity. I loved working with Tam. She does a lot of method work as well, so it's great to have a new playmate on the set that likes to be really prepared before the scenes."

In "Scratch 'N' Sniff," Edgley got to show off one of her own skills in the scene where Chiana and Jool try to best each other. She explained, "I was fire twirling one afternoon, and [director] Tony [Tilse] came out. He goes, "That's great. I didn't know you could do that. We'll put it in." All of a sudden, all the producers came down and they said, "No way. These are the fire regulation." I said, "I litterally supported myself for a year doing this stuff, so don't worry. I can do it". Having every producer on the set doesn't help the nerves. It ended up being quite a fun day. By he end it was cool."