nerd4hire
03-11-2006, 11:04 AM
It's always fun to read a Joss interview.
Joss Whedon is awesome. After braving an entire red carpet to support his Serenity star Nathan Fillion at the premiere of his new film, Slither, he still put up with more harassment on his way to the after party. I found a moment to walk up to Whedon after he hung with some browncoats. Though I barely said anything, he knew exactly what to do. I needed some bites so he’d give them. The result was pure Whedon magic.
Q: How did Nathan do not being directed by you?
Joss: You know, I molded him from clay. He is nothing without me. No, the great thing about Nathan is he just completely embodies the part. I wasn’t even thinking about ooh, Nathan made this choice or that. I’m just like, “What’s going to happen to the sheriff?” The only thing I noticed of Nathan is his hair. “That’s kind of like Caleb hair, but no so much Mal hair.” He’s wonderful. He was wonderful long before he ever met me.
Q: Does a movie like this satisfy your genre cravings or is there a bit of overstimulation in the genre right now?
Joss: This is a different kind of movie than every other movie that’s out there. Mostly they’re doing the really hot teens have sex and die for it at the hands of mutants, or inbred mutants or living dead mutants. This is more of a throwback to the older movies that I grew up with which had the grossout, the extraterrestrial, the comedy, everything all at once. They’re slightly less pornographic. You actually care about the characters even though they’re really silly, so this is the kind of movie I haven’t seen in a while. It’s fun. I liked it a lot.
http://actionadventure.about.com/od/news/a/030906whedon.htm
Joss Whedon is awesome. After braving an entire red carpet to support his Serenity star Nathan Fillion at the premiere of his new film, Slither, he still put up with more harassment on his way to the after party. I found a moment to walk up to Whedon after he hung with some browncoats. Though I barely said anything, he knew exactly what to do. I needed some bites so he’d give them. The result was pure Whedon magic.
Q: How did Nathan do not being directed by you?
Joss: You know, I molded him from clay. He is nothing without me. No, the great thing about Nathan is he just completely embodies the part. I wasn’t even thinking about ooh, Nathan made this choice or that. I’m just like, “What’s going to happen to the sheriff?” The only thing I noticed of Nathan is his hair. “That’s kind of like Caleb hair, but no so much Mal hair.” He’s wonderful. He was wonderful long before he ever met me.
Q: Does a movie like this satisfy your genre cravings or is there a bit of overstimulation in the genre right now?
Joss: This is a different kind of movie than every other movie that’s out there. Mostly they’re doing the really hot teens have sex and die for it at the hands of mutants, or inbred mutants or living dead mutants. This is more of a throwback to the older movies that I grew up with which had the grossout, the extraterrestrial, the comedy, everything all at once. They’re slightly less pornographic. You actually care about the characters even though they’re really silly, so this is the kind of movie I haven’t seen in a while. It’s fun. I liked it a lot.
http://actionadventure.about.com/od/news/a/030906whedon.htm