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The IT List 2002: IT Sci-Fi Babes
THE LADIES OF FARSCAPE

The Ladies Of Farscape

Rebecca Riggs 33; Raelee Hill 29; Claudia Black 29; Tammy Macintosh 32; Gigi Edgley 24

WHY THEM? TV's smartest sci-fi series is also the sexiest thanks to this pack of otherworldly beauties. ''It's like an active Disneyland,'' laughs Macintosh of the Sci Fi Channel's ''Farscape.'' ''You die, you come back, you lose your head, it grows back. You just get away with everything.''

ON SHOOTING IN AUSTRALIA Black: ''There's a liberation involved in shooting on the other side of the world with other people's money. We just keep pushing the envelope.''

ADVENTURES IN WARDROBE ''I'm in platform boots because I'm a bit of a short-ass and the other girls tower over me,'' says Hill. ''So I'm in the platform boots I can barely run in. I feel like I run like a duck.''

ROLE MODELS Macintosh: ''Jodie Foster, because I believe the illusion she presents me of every character she's ever played.'' Hill: ''Audrey Hepburn. She was an extraordinary actress and had grace beyond belief, but was also an incredible humanitarian.'' Riggs: ''I'd love to work with Judi Dench. She's incredibly brave, intuitive, and quirky. She's somebody who commits to her own idiosyncrasies, and that's very important.'' For Edgley, who works alongside a puppet named Rygel, the choice is obvious: ''Miss Piggy! Because she has fun no matter what, even with a hand shoved up her bottom.''

BEST ADVICE Hill: ''The two best moments of your life are the minute you find out you've got the gig and the minute you find out you've lost the gig. Because both those things open up doors if you look at them in the right light.''

CAREER LOW The one time Black wishes she could've been worlds away was while performing as Portia in Shakespeare's ''The Merchant of Venice.'' ''At the beginning of the very famous 'quality of mercy' speech, I completely blanked, and the theater was so quiet that I could actually hear someone in the back row go, 'Tsk, tsk, tsk.'''

CREATIVE CRUTCHES Macintosh: ''If I don't have coffee, watch out, you're not getting anything from me.'' Black: ''I try to eat as much chocolate as is humanly possible. It's very important in my craft.''


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