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From the Undead to Multiple Lives
By KATHRYN SHATTUCK
Published: February 4, 2009
JOSS WHEDON may be as much a cult figure as the characters
he conjured for “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” and “Angel,”
but since 2004, when his vampires faced the final
apocalypse, he has been everywhere but television. “
Dollhouse,” his new Fox series, is his welcome back. In
the show Eliza Dushku (Faith in “Buffy”) stars as Echo, a
blank slate of an underground operative whom clients
transform into whatever they desire, be it negotiator,
assassin, friend or lover.
But even fame and a hard-core fan base couldn’t protect
the 44-year-old Mr. Whedon — who wrote a movie (“Serenity,
” based on his TV series “Firefly”), an Internet musical
(“Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog”) and a thriller (the
forthcoming “Cabin in the Woods”) during the interregnum
— from a dreaded Friday night time slot. In a telephone
interview with Kathryn Shattuck, Mr. Whedon spoke about
expectations for Echo, and for himself.
Q. So where did you come up with the idea for “Dollhouse”?
A. At lunch. I came up with the idea with Eliza. She had
made a deal to do a show at Fox, and we were sort of
talking about the kind of show she ought to do and the kind
of people she ought to play and what people expected of
her, and then lo and behold the show just sort of popped up
and started barking at me.
Q. You said she had made a deal. Did that deal include you?
A. No, I had no intention of doing another show. I just
sometimes spend time with Eliza and talk about her career
and how she can work it and take control of it and, you
know, make the kind of television she’s proud of and
interested in and that will challenge her in different ways
as often as possible. And because we were covering all the
things she wanted in a show, this show then came out of
that.
Q. What was the next step?
A. I told my people, “I think I accidentally made up a
show, and maybe we should try this.” I did go to Fox.
Within a week we sat down and gave them the concept, the
episodes, the five-year arc, a one-sheet, and everything
just sort of fell into place, and they said: “We’re not
really interested in a pilot. Why don’t you give us seven
episodes instead?” Which was quite a vote of confidence.
That later became 13 episodes before we’d ever shot a
foot, and so it was slightly, you know, kismet. Obviously
it became more complicated, but it definitely was an
organic process.
Q. Tell us about Echo. She’s going to start remembering,
and then what happens?
A. Oh, all heck breaks loose. The arc of the show is really
her not remembering so much as becoming self-aware, knowing
things in a more complex way than she should, knowing that
she exists and eventually knowing that she used to be
different than she is now. We as an audience are searching
for her identity, but she is more searching for the concept
of identity, at first.
Q. What personalities is Echo going to take on?
A. She’s going to be a rich older woman who has died, she’s
going to be a blind cult member, she’s going to be a
dominatrix, she’s going to be a backup singer for a pop
star, she’s going to be a safecracker, she’s going to be
a somebody’s wife. She’s going to be, you know, whatever's
next.
Q. The show has been moved into a tough time slot. How do
you feel about that?
A. It’s a tough time slot if your expectations are to take
over the world. If your expectations are to hold your own
in a tough time slot, then it’s not a tough time slot.
Knowing that genre shows have a life outside of their
airing and that so many people are watching TV at a
different time than it airs anyway, it’s certainly not the
same as it used to be.
Q. What was your thinking behind “Dr. Horrible’s
Sing-Along Blog”?
A. Twofold. On one hand I wanted to set an example of the
creative community making something without any help from
studios of any kind and actually getting it out to the
public and making a profit on it. And the other half was my
feeling that there are not nearly enough supervillain
musicals.
Q. I guess not. Will “Dollhouse,” like “Buffy,” have a
musical episode?
A. Not in the same sense, though Echo does play backup
singer at one point. “Buffy” lent itself to that kind of
thing in a way that my other shows don’t. I would say that
“Dollhouse” is a little more grown-up. But don’t worry. I
’ll never completely grow up.
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