What happens when you attend a cocktail party with all of your bosses on a live television set? Grace Park, among the much ballyhooed recent cast additions to CBC's The Border, says that the drinks go down much too fast.

"It's like, 'Do I drink? Do I not drink?' Wait -- what just happened to my glass of white wine?" says Park, dressed to kill in a Gucci skirt and knee-high black motorcycle boots. "It doesn't take much for me. Especially jammed in a room with people I don't know."

The party to celebrate the show's second season, held during shooting at the old Toronto ferry terminal off Cherry Street where the Gemini-winning drama is filmed, seems to have an identity issue: There's an open bar and Thai spring rolls being passed, but every few moments stern voices silence party-going guests.

"Great party, welcome: Now shut up!" jokes Nicholas Campbell, TV's Dominic DaVinci who, like Park, is a recent addition to The Border's cast.

Campbell gives Park a fatherly hug. "Isn't she something?" he asks the attendant producers, writers and CBC brass.

Park has certainly become a hot commodity. The one-time Maxim cover girl is best known for her role as an android on Battlestar Galactica, but recently acted opposite Benjamin Bratt on the U. S. cop show The Cleaner. Exchanging her empty wine glass for a tumbler of sparkling water, Park grabs a morsel of coconut shrimp and explains that she had no intention of joining The Border.

"I was doing Battlestar, had already booked The Cleaner and felt like I wanted a big, fat break," she says. "I don't know why I was being so snooty. Eventually, I said yes without watching the DVDs."

Married for three years, the Vancouver resident is solo while filming in Toronto, but has befriended her cast mates. There was talk of going to Stratford with Graham Abbey and his wife and when she sees co-star Jonas Chernik getting ready for a scene, she shouts joking encouragement.

"Get loaded, buddy!" she yells at her blushing friend.

Chernik, who plays the show's resident computer geek, scurries over and says that although he's no Battlestar fanboy, he appreciates Park's contributions.

"We're lucky to have her," he says, stashing his glass of wine. "She brings vitality to the set."

Eventually, the day's filming is completed and the cameramen and series creator Peter Raymont shuffle in. There's talk of the show's Deadwood influenced posters and Park's indecision about presenting at this month's Gemini Awards.

"I saw the interviews during TIFF and I hate all the star slagging," she says. "I'll probably go; I just hate that orbit of celebrity."

All in all, Park says the party made for an "interesting" evening. The truth is, she doesn't know anyone in this city. When she's not filming, she's usually in yoga pants and on Facebook in her hotel room.

"I'm not used to a cocktail function adjacent to the set with no music but booze," she says. "Everyone feels weird, but we're all going to act normal. It's a lot like acting, I guess."