There is a brand spanking new video interview with Gigi up on Nine MSN website. Unfortunately they don't allow embedding so we will have to settle for a link instead:
click on the image to see the video
One thing I like about Gigi is how passionate she is about her job. Seriously, watch the video - you can totally see that this girl pours all of her heart and soul into what she does. It's a pleasure to watch her.
Here is something I did not know: apparently Rescue Special Ops has grown a shipper community centered around Lara Knight (Gigi's character) and Dean Gallagher (played by Less Hill). If you have never heard about shipping, let me explain. Think back to X-files back when it was still a fresh and original show. There was a contingent of fans out there that really wanted Moulder and Scully to get together and thrived on the sexual tension between these characters. They were the original shippers and ever since then it became sort of a tradition for every SF show to have a "will they or won't they" couple that fans could obsess about. Like John and Aeryn on Farscape for example. Folks who loved this sort of stuff and rooted for the characters to have a full fledged relation-"ship" became the shippers and what they do is known simply as shipping.
Traditional shipping activities involve (but are not limited to):
Meticulously analyzing every conversation and non-verbal communication between the main shipping pair on message boards and newsgroups
Automatically hating any character or pairing that could potentially threaten their preferred ship and organizing campaigns to get these characters written off the show
Writing fanfics in which the characters finally get it on, get married or preferably both
Making sappy music videos featuring the shipper couple and posting them on youtube
Becoming incredibly angry at the mere thought that someone could prefer different pairing involving one of their favored characters
Apparently shipping is not a SF phenomenon anymore and fans of action/drama shows have been getting in on the action as well while I wasn't looking. How do I know? Well, look at these videos:
Here is another one:
If that's not enough, here is the fanfiction.net section for Rescue Special Ops. While there are not many stories there, I think it is very telling that the few fanfics that were written for the show were almost excusively Lara/Dean centric. If this is not a clear evidence of shipping community at work then I don't know what is.
This actually makes me happy. Shipper couples almost always become focal points of ensemble shows which means lots of screen time and character development for their characters. This is definitely a good thing for Gigi.
Here are some clips from Quantum Apocalypse - one of Gigi's more recent projects. It is a made for TV movie in which she plays a brilliant but eccentric physicist helping to save the planet from a certain disaster:
The movie is not all that great, but still worth checking out just to support Gigi.
Here is a clip from Systolic a movie so indy, it doesn't even have a proper web page. So indy the camera man doesn't even have a tripod! So indy... Well, you get the idea.
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