Virginia Hey was asked what inspired her to become an actress, and whether her spiritual out-look helped her to prepare for her Farscape character?
Virginia said:
I sense a long answer here! Grab a cup of tea.. here we go.. I've always been very artistic with a keen visual imagination and interest in commercial culture and marketing. While I was at Art school I decided that painting canvas's was too slow and limiting, so I thought I would major in photography, which I hoped would help me eventually move into my dream career! It wasn't acting at that time, I wanted to make moving paintings!! = Pop clips, Movies, TV shows.. I was distracted from Art school by a modelling career that took off from a weekend endeavour to make some pocket One of the casting agents, Mitch from Mitch Consultancy, often asked me if I was interested in auditioning for small parts in movies, I would always say no to her as I was frightened of making a fool of myself masquerading as yet another glam thing! Well Mitch asked me to audition for Mad Max 2, and I couldn't resist! The script called for a strong athletic warrior.. I adored the idea of playing this character, as a model I was always depicting superficial glamourpusses, so when I had an opportunity to break this mould I jumped at it!
My spiritual outlook was what rang all the bells in my heart and soul and attracted me when I read the initial description of the character Zhaan.. I feel in love with her spirituality so much so, that when I eventually found out she would be blue and bald, I threw my conventional looks out the window and decided to take a huge risk and alter my appearance semi-permanently for years! How's that for love? I actually saw Zhaan as "meant to be" in my life, it was almost as if she was no accident! I have learnt so very much from playing this character! Releasing ones vanity is almost impossible, and I went from a well known glamour pus to an alien over night. Hard to deal with without a very rock hard spiritual foundation. So my spirituality is what keeps me solid, stops me from obsessing about my former looks, and fires me along as Zhaan! Funnily enough only my friends knew of the similarity between Zhaan and myself, the producers had no idea that I had indeed identical interests in medicine, natural healing, science and spirituality. (I still don't think they know, unless they read this!) Don't forget that she is 800 years old, so I am a mere primitive compared to her! The writers are sheer genius, they never cease to amaze me with their Zhaan complexities and twists and plots.... Wow! what a fantastic job! Long answer huh?
Virginia said:
I sense a long answer here! Grab a cup of tea.. here we go.. I've always been very artistic with a keen visual imagination and interest in commercial culture and marketing. While I was at Art school I decided that painting canvas's was too slow and limiting, so I thought I would major in photography, which I hoped would help me eventually move into my dream career! It wasn't acting at that time, I wanted to make moving paintings!! = Pop clips, Movies, TV shows.. I was distracted from Art school by a modelling career that took off from a weekend endeavour to make some pocket One of the casting agents, Mitch from Mitch Consultancy, often asked me if I was interested in auditioning for small parts in movies, I would always say no to her as I was frightened of making a fool of myself masquerading as yet another glam thing! Well Mitch asked me to audition for Mad Max 2, and I couldn't resist! The script called for a strong athletic warrior.. I adored the idea of playing this character, as a model I was always depicting superficial glamourpusses, so when I had an opportunity to break this mould I jumped at it!
My spiritual outlook was what rang all the bells in my heart and soul and attracted me when I read the initial description of the character Zhaan.. I feel in love with her spirituality so much so, that when I eventually found out she would be blue and bald, I threw my conventional looks out the window and decided to take a huge risk and alter my appearance semi-permanently for years! How's that for love? I actually saw Zhaan as "meant to be" in my life, it was almost as if she was no accident! I have learnt so very much from playing this character! Releasing ones vanity is almost impossible, and I went from a well known glamour pus to an alien over night. Hard to deal with without a very rock hard spiritual foundation. So my spirituality is what keeps me solid, stops me from obsessing about my former looks, and fires me along as Zhaan! Funnily enough only my friends knew of the similarity between Zhaan and myself, the producers had no idea that I had indeed identical interests in medicine, natural healing, science and spirituality. (I still don't think they know, unless they read this!) Don't forget that she is 800 years old, so I am a mere primitive compared to her! The writers are sheer genius, they never cease to amaze me with their Zhaan complexities and twists and plots.... Wow! what a fantastic job! Long answer huh?
