CHUD interview with Nathan Fillion(spoilerish)
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i didnt see this posted here yet so here it is,i personally dont think it has any spoilers,but then again i am a spoiler whore,so read at your own risk.
INTERVIEW: NATHAN FILLION
12.29.04
By Fred Topel
When I walked onto the set of Serenity and saw a dude sleeping in the corner, I never imagined it was the star of the movie. I’ve seen the show and in fact I’ve interviewed Nathan Fillion before, but I guess people look different when they’re eyes are shut and their head is pointing down. In his brown leather Captain Mal costume, Fillion caught some Z’s while journalists observed shooting and talked to all of the waking filmmakers, then promptly got up when it was his turn to talk.
Fillion explained that he finds down time useful for catching up on sleep, and as the scene before the camera was from a perspective that didn’t see him, he just hung out. He can shut out any noise that may be going on.
The day’s scene features Summer Glau fighting some guys in a bar, and Fillion and Adam Baldwin are off in a corner when the fight breaks out. So, until Joss Whedon was ready to shoot his close up, Fillion talked to us. This interview took place in August, 2004.
Q. When do you come into the scene we’re watching?
Nathan: I’m tucked away in the corner. Jayne and I are doing a deal with Rafael and Yan [Feldman] over here. We’re tucked away in the corner doing a deal when River flips out. So, any time that corner’s going to turn around and maybe take a look at the corner we’re in. That’s when they call Chemille to tap and wake me up and I come over there and act shocked.
Q. How different is it to be making a film after doing TV?
Nathan: It’s a little different. We had eight days to put on a one hour show. Now we have the better part of three months to put out a two hour show, so the timing is a little different, but certainly I can tell that the quality’s also extremely different.
Q. How did you feel when you got the call about this?
Nathan: The series being cancelled was such a heartbreak. I broke the cardinal rule of don’t fall in love with what you’re doing, because the rug can get yanked out from underneath you, and when it did, I was heartbroken. So, Joss really had it in his head that he was going to get it made into a movie and it’s a great dream and I really wanted it to happen, but I couldn’t fall in love with that idea again just to be heartbroken again. So, we go the green light, Josh wrote a script, everything was rolling. We started doing rehearsals, we actually started filming. I don’t think it had actually settled in for about three weeks into filming that we were actually making the movie.
Q. Do you think that Mal is a different sort of hero in the movie than he was as an antihero on the series?
Nathan: Different than being an antihero? I don’t. I think he’s still on that same vein. I think, if anything, he’s a little darker than he was before. I think he’s a little emptier than he was before. He too has had the rug pulled out from under him a couple of times since we’ve known him in the series, and I also think, because we’re in a film, another difference versus television is that you can be allowed to be darker.
Q. You don’t have to love him in your living room every week.
Nathan: Exactly. We don’t have a bunch of TV producers saying, “Make him more likable and funny.”
Q. How tight are your pants?
Nathan: These ones are actually far more comfortable. I think it’s actually Sean Maher who’s taken on the title of the tightest pants. Dr. Tight Pants.
Q. Are you a big fan of sci-fi?
Nathan: I am. I just actually, today, I knew we were going to be here for a long time and doing relatively little, so I brought the Star Wars trilogy, my old VHS tapes, broke those out and then started watching the first one.
Q. Do you look at Han and say I want to be as cool as Han?
Nathan: Absolutely. I look at Harrison Ford and say I want to be as cool as Harriso
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