Went to the Paley Fest Dollhouse event last night & had a great time! Joss introduced the episode "Needs" then brought out Elizabeth Craft, Sarah Fain, Eliza Dushku, Fran Kranz, Dichen Lachman & Miracle Laurie for the panel.
Before getting into a recap, just wanted to say that Dollhouse is really a show that lends itself to multiple viewings. Pretty much every episode I've seen two or three times now, and each time I notice something new, something deeper. I love this show.
The clip chosen especially for this audience was from the dollhouse episode of Twilight Zone featuring Robert Duvall. Very appropriate choice.
Highlights/video from the panel after the jump!
Joss discusses the infamous 13th episode
- Joss calls the 13th episode the "strangest, most awesome thing [Fox] has ever had"
- Episode 12 is also fantastic, as it's written by Tim Minear and how does Joss describe Minear? "That boy's not well"
- Joss: Dollhouse had "an abnormally difficult birthing process that I was abnormally whiny about"
- They have not shot a single episode in their airing order
- Eliza says she "has multiple personalities" in real life, that everyone in her family has ADHD and embraces it, so something like Dollhouse was perfect for her
- Eliza's favorite roles on Dollhouse so far have been the tomboy from episode 2 and Esther, the blind woman
- In the next episode, Eliza plays a 50 year old dead woman
- The original first scene of Dollhouse, Adele pitching to a client, is now in episode 13
- Fran said Tahmoh saw the reshoot of the pilot as a "second chance" to do even better. Fran agrees, saying he saw it as "more an opportunity than anything else."
- Joss: "My dream in life is there will never be a term 'typical Joss Whedon show'"
- Elizabeth & Sarah on Joss: "[We're] not worried about how he's portraying women."
- A reference was made to a "penis puppet" that no one in the audience understood. Things got awkward.
- Joss finds the lack of Dollhouse's perameters to be limiting - more difficult to figure out how to write a different kind
of story every week (caper, thriller, romantic comedy, etc)- Joss on the big reveals we've witnessed so far, "Dude. Just wait."
- Miracle on what she told her friends when Mellie was introduced, "I promise I end up cooler than that"
- Mellie's reveal that she is November is one of Eliza's favorites
- Dichen has a scar on her leg from shooting the last episode that aired
- Sidenote: Loved hearing Dichen's badass accent
- Dichen loved playing the dorky fan from episode three the most. She and Joss agreed it's cause that character is the most like her, haha
- Someone asked Eliza if Echo choosing to be implanted in this past week's episode was a pivitol moment. She responded "Yes. It is."
- "The [sleeping] pods are WAY comfy" - Miracle
- Sidenote: Miracle is incredibly charming. Fran is incredibly awkward. But super adorable.
- Fran on Topher, "His genius is so great, he doesn't connect to anyone...he has no life...he's a kid playing with his toys...an obnoxious, cocky kid."
- Only person he has some sort of obedient relationship with is Adele
- The audition for Topher was the "Bison scene" with Boyd, a scene which we've apparently scene that was originally much longer
- Joss originally conceived of Adele as a "Dragonlady" and never thought Olivia would agree to play the part. But she as an actress "is so sympathetic, it "rejiggered [his] concept of who Adele was"
- For every actor on stage, when they left the room, the producers KNEW they were perfect for their roles
- Joss changed his mind and decided that yes, there should be more going on with the Dollhouse other than just private engagements
- Fran didn't know "Mike" was the military code for "M". Teehee.
- Code names ARE reused. Sierra is the 2nd Sierra. Joss hasn't thought about the fact that there are probably more than 26 dolls in the house right now...
- Fran wants a scene in season two of Topher shopping for groceries and running into Paul Ballard in the frozen foods section
- Enver, who plays Victor, is claustrophobic. Dichen, who thinks he is "adorable", had to save him when the crew didn't realize he was claustrophobic and didn't remove him from a sleeping pod right away
- Joss says being on set is very "lovely & calming", just like we'd suspect
- Joss enjoys working on the "scale TV brings" more so than internet or film
- What the characters do & where the characters go are extremely influenced by the actors
- Joss : A.I. is the "biggest influence on Dollhouse"
- The art corner is Eliza's favorite part of the set
- Someone asked how much we would know about the overarching story by the end of season one, to which Joss replied "35%. There will be many questions left to answer"
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