What Part Will Summer Glau Play On Dollhouse?
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Joss Whedon works fast: now that Summer Glau is no longer busy with Terminator, he's already talking to her about showing up on Dollhouse. But she won't be playing the role you might expect. Possible spoilers...
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Well I vote for Summer to be a doll. Perhaps with the name of Tango (She loves to dance).
But since Joss is dead set against such a move, then my guess is:
A NSA agent looking for Mr. Dominic. This way she gets to kick ass and be smart. It would be a recurring role of course, and she gets to outsmart Mark Sheppard as the FBI agent.
She could be a genius sent in by Rossum to help Topher "fix" the Dolls when something goes wrong.
She could play an investigative reporter looking to break the story on the Dollhouse for Fox News.
She could be an FBI informant who formerly worked with Ballard and is looking to make more money.
She could also be a secretary/receptionist in the Rossum building.
She could be one of the trainers or masseuse in the Dollhouse.
She could be a bounty hunter tracking Alpha.
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Thanks, Haken! You find some cool stuff!!
I would like to see Summer being put into the role of a 'new boss' from the parent company and she's been sent to take control of this 'house' due to the current problems with Alpha. You know it would seem important to get control of Alpha, he could reek havoc on many more houses, she could be a 'better model' than they are currently 'renting out'.
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oh i can't wait for the new season even more now.
i am so glad she will be on the show.
i am glad she won't be an active, maybe she will be adel's assistant, but really there to report back to the head of all the dollhouses, like a mole.
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Originally posted by Shinygoodguy:
Well I vote for Summer to be a doll. Perhaps with the name of Tango (She loves to dance).
But since Joss is dead set against such a move, then my guess is:
A NSA agent looking for Mr. Dominic. This way she gets to kick ass and be smart. It would be a recurring role of course, and she gets to outsmart Mark Sheppard as the FBI agent.
She could be a genius sent in by Rossum to help Topher "fix" the Dolls when something goes wrong.
She could play an investigative reporter looking to break the story on the Dollhouse for Fox News.
She could be an FBI informant who formerly worked with Ballard and is looking to make more money.
She could also be a secretary/receptionist in the Rossum building.
She could be one of the trainers or masseuse in the Dollhouse.
She could be a bounty hunter tracking Alpha.
...OR she could be Dr. Spock's back-up band.
While Summer would make an excellent "doll," I think casting her as one would be...well, in a way, redundant. Such a role would be too similar to River, and when does being typecast within the Whedon universe ever get fun?
I like your notion about her being sent by the NSA to come a-lookin' for Dominic. Maybe she's his immediate superior or handler (not sure an agent in Dominic's role would have a handler or not), maybe she's his partner, maybe they had a little something going on the side...and BOY IS SHE PISSED.
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She could be a genius sent in by Rossum to help Topher "fix" the Dolls when something goes wrong.
Quoting Liz Lemon from 30 Rock- I want to go there.
I really want her interacting with Topher on some awesomely nerdly plane. I think Joss could come up with a character for her that would jive really well with Topher. Plus I think Topher needs someone to be a touch more buddy buddy with. Maybehaps Ivy quits as she has been resigned to juice box gofer and they replace her with Summer's character? Dunno, something with Topher would be cool. But jmo.
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I said this in the other Summer/Dollhouse thread but I thought it would be funny if Summer played the person Topher's diagnostic personality that was uploaded into Sierra was based on. Like it was someone he once knew or a girlfriend he once had but lost, so now he brings her back once a year. Creepy? Yes. Interesting? Possibly. Mainly I would just like to see Summer play a fun role like that opposite Topher.
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I always thought Glau would be the perfect Wonder Woman in a universe where Whedon was still in charge of making that movie.
Good news about her coming to Dollhouse. Very happy it got renewed. As long as Whedon keeps his "family" of actors close, a Firefly spin off is never too far out of the question.
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I'm with Joss on this one. Of course Summer is gorgeous beyond the pale, and she has amazing range as an actress, hence would make a very good active, but we've seen her do the 'helpless little girl gone badass' thing. And, let's be honest, she would totally overshadow miss Dushku if she were to play a similar role. Can't have that, as the politics of the network are already... well, it's Fox. They wanted to give Eliza a show. Was she the best choice to play a wide range of personas? No, I don't think she was, I think Summer would be, but it is what it is.
Anyway, I would love to see Summer play a more villainous role. Something where she got to be a little evil. Feared but not trusted by anyone. Her being so lithe and yet so very capable of kicking ass makes for a good dynamic where everyone's kind of intimidated by this little girl, and newcomers can't understand why until they see her in action.
You know what I think would be cool? If she was one of the big shots at Rossum. Smart, steely, and doing everything in her considerable power to get this house back in line; hunt down Alpha, keep an eye on the FBI agent who wants to take them but is now at least partly in their grasp, investigate the whole house. Something like that. I wouldn't mind seeing her play an agent of some kind either, but the FBI and NSA of this show seem to get the short end of the stick a lot. It would be much more interesting to me if she was a Big Bad that needed to be defeated.
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Originally posted by RiverDancer:
... They wanted to give Eliza a show. Was she the best choice to play a wide range of personas? No, I don't think she was, I think Summer would be, but it is what it is. ...
I pretty much agree on that, but Ms. Dushku does a better job than I expected...rightly or wrongly I'd always thought of her as kind of one-note.
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