Olivia Williams 飾演的角色，應該是娃娃屋的主人。
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Countdown to 'Dollhouse': The madam speaks
05:00 PM PT, Feb 4 2009
Olivia Williams admits it. Her character, Adelle Dewitt,
is something of a “Dollhouse” madam. But the British
stage and screen actress -– you know her as the widowed
wife in “The Sixth Sense” –- doesn’t mind.
As Williams says, it’s all about the subtext. Williams
reveals how Joss Whedon lured her in, more about Adelle's
background, and tells us why viewers should care about the
show:
You were in London doing theater when Whedon called you
about "Dollhouse." Where you familiar with his work?
I have to be completely honest: No. And I had no interest
in sci-fi whatsoever. What convinced me was literally his
charm on the phone. We hit it off immediately. He’s got a
very similar sense of humor and just the way he constructed
his sentences in conversation was entertaining. I thought
if this man writes anything like the way he talks, then I’
m in. I’ve learned subsequently what a great, skillful,
powerful producer and writer he is, but at the time I was
just going off of this bizarre midnight phone conversation.
Do tell.
I was in England so it was mid-afternoon for him but very
late for me. I had actually just been out on the town. I
had done a play and had had the statutory large drink
afterward. So I spoke to him on the phone and suddenly, at
the end of it, I had signed my family and I up for eight
years in California. It was like: “Um, honey? I’ve got
something to tell you.”
What did he say that appealed to you?
When he described the character of Adelle I first thought:
“Yeah, yeah, I’ve done that before.” She was supposed to
be cold, tough, British. At the time I was quite keen to
play American and not be labeled as a Brit. Then he told me
about the twist that happens later for her and I was like:
“Oh, that’s cool. No that’s really cool.” And the more
he explained what pans out with Adelle, the more I was
intrigued.
What can you tell us about her.
She runs the Dollhouse. There are the dolls and there are
their handlers. The handlers report to her mad scientist,
Topher (Fran Kranz), and then he reports to me. I am sort
of the face of the business. When someone has decided they
want [to rent out someone] who, I don’t know, can play a
piano concerto and likes to have rough sex, they have to
come and talk to me about it. I tell them how much they
have to pay and tell them that they have to behave
themselves. So in that sense I am a madam.
Do we find out where she comes from? What her background is?
Oh, yeah! I had to ask Joss myself how Adelle became the
head of this extraordinary organization that rents out
these fantasies. Did she run a brothel? And he said “No!
No, your character was head of a huge multinational medical
company that researched neural diseases.” That made for
quite a change in my character preparation. I thought maybe
I should bring the eye shadow down a little. It’s kept me
on my toes as an actor.
What's the challenge in playing Adele?
It’s the combination of playing someone who’s trying to
grasp on to moral explanations for her behavior while
dealing with abject loneliness. She’s lonely and has great
empathy with people who are prepared to pay a vast amount
of money for a date. Which means she’s completely morally
corrupt ultimately. It’s just such a great double-edged
part and you know we actors love the subtext, darling. Joss
got me with the subtext.
Adele is always justifying herself. It’s a slight case of
methinks-the-lady-doth-protest-too-much. She says [the
Dollhouse] is for the good of mankind, it’s a charitable
service, giving people what they need is a public service.
And then there’s the terrible sort of pro bono work she
tries to pick up. I have a friend who works in the
ecological arm of Shell Oil, and it’s kind of like that.
So while destroying the personalities of the human race, she
’s trying to rebuild, you know, a couple.
When did you know that you were working on something
special?
There’s an episode where the writing really began to fly.
I couldn’t wait to see what happened next. The more
surreal and bizarre it got the more fun it was to act. You’
ve got me in a vulnerable moment because it’s been a very
happy set and we just wrapped. The camera guys and the ADs
and hair and makeup, everyone just really pulled together
to make a great atmosphere where the drama can fly. There’
s been very good chemistry between everybody.
So you're finished shooting the last of this season’s 13
episodes. Without giving anything away, how do you feel
about how it all ends?
There is no way to describe how this season ends. There isn
’t even a collection of words. It’s so surreal. Even if I
wanted to tell you a spoiler, I don’t even think I could
explain it to you.
What would you say to potential “Dollhouse” viewers to
persuade them to watch?
It will pay off. It will pay off if you stick with it. The
first episodes have got the action and the glamour and set
up the premise: What if you could buy whatever you wanted?
But then you find yourself in a moral haze. “OK, is
getting what I want good for me? Is it going to make me
happy? Where does it lead morally and what are the
implications of creating a fake personality? Do we have
souls? If our brains were being wiped, is there anything in
the soul that could survive?”
I think the people who are there to see [Eliza Dushku] in a
bikini –- which is a great thing –- are going to find
themselves with a moral dilemma that they might not expect.
-- Denise Martin
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