Wayne Pygram

Wayne: (Tells how his audition went for Farscape all dressed up like Scorpius.) It was very rushed. The building of my prosthetic, like most things, was three days behind schedule, and so my name wasn't on the schedule. No one knew I was coming to do my camera test. I walked onto the floor, and they were shooting. I knew a number of the crew. I slid up to a friend of mine, and just started talking about her children. She didn't know it was me. She didn't know who I was. She just walked away. I could see the look in her eyes. She was very uncomfortable. Then the whole floor stopped. It was in between takes. Everyone came over and wanted to have a look at this thing in black. When I spoke to my friend, it was very empowering, very liberating. I grew six inches. She was quite spooked by it all, so I knew that I don't have to do much. I had it from that day.

Wayne: (About playing an villain on Farscape.) Every show needs a villain to drive the drama and I can safely say from an actor's perspective it is one of the more satisfying roles to have.

Wayne: (About acting in general) It's a funny thing, because a lot of times on the floor you think something is going to be weak, or it isn't satisfying, they turn out remarkable.

Wayne: (Talking about watching Farscape.) I get uncomfortable watching it, because of all the torture with John. I think that's good. It gives it a real edge and a darkness.

Wayne: (Speaking of his role as Scorpius on Farscape.) His cutting is so deep because he's faced the worse kind of things like torture and pain in his life. But pain and torture means nothing to him.

Wayne: (Tells how he felt when hearing about the cancellation of Farscape.) Your lover leaves, but she comes back every night, wants to stay, gets up the next morning and says no, I made the right decision, I'm gone. The same thing would happen again, and again. I've never seen so many grown men in tears. It meant a lot to everyone, which was great. It was our family.

Wayne: (Wayne tells what made him want to be an actor.) It's just purely fantasy with me. I'm an untrained actor. Everyone thinks I'm trained, and I've done all the Shakespeare and all that stuff, but I really just invented myself as an actor and that's how I work.

Wayne Pygram: The prospect of working in leather, latex and crocodile has always appealed to me, the pain and the pleasure.

Wayne Pygram: When I joined Farscape my mission was to make Scorpius irresistible, he was initially only meant to appear in four episodes but my attitude was that I'm going to make this cake so good they will want more.

Wayne Pygram: The only time I'm ever aprehensive in auditions is when the shoes are not meant for me but as soon as I received my pages for screen test for Scorpius I felt a certain affinity to the character.

Wayne Pygram: (About what he would like to change about his physical appearance) That I'm losing my hair. It's in fact a neatly managed look, to garner a toe-hold in a certain area of the character acting market.