She collaborated with Buffy’s avuncular Mayor on destroying the world — and helped one reporter’s mother overcome cancer. She is a darling of the gay community worldwide — and, through no desire of her own, an inspiration to Death Row inmates still penning her love letters.
Eliza Dushku - what a doll!
Meet Eliza Patricia Dushku, a self-admitted tomboy, a friend of the Albanian president, a star of the gritty Alphabet Killer, a woman in the business of entertaining millions for the past 15 years — and an executive producer, not to mention face, of FOX’s new high-profile sci-fi drama Dollhouse.
Today, Eliza and a group of journalists (read: fans) hooked up for a candid interview about her free-spirit ways, her enormous responsibilities, and her hopes for, at least, a five-year run in an admittedly difficult 9 PM Friday timeslot.
Eliza charmed us with her self-depreciating ways. “I am pretty adaptable,” she said. “Throw me in the water, and I will hopefully learn to swim.” And she gave away quite a few tantalizing glimpses into the fate of TV’s new intrepid — yet curiously childlike — heroine known to her handlers as “Echo”.
As for example, this season, there are only 13 episodes, and they have all been shot. In fact, the filming wrapped up last week. Now, Eliza and Joss Whedon, the hand behind the pen, are doing the promotional blitz while looking forward to returning to the writers’ room.
Yes, that’s right. Eliza is in the thick of things. Not satisfied with being merely a… doll, she’s been there from that first lunch up, when Joss and she, decade-long friends, reconnected and came up with what is widely touted as one of the edgiest, most controversial series to come on the boob tube in recent times.
It's a DOLLHOUSE out here!
“It deals with enslavement of people, of erasing their identity”, she laughs. “That’s pretty out there, right? But we’re trying to keep it to the boundaries of our 9 PM time.”
Nudity, violence, “that ’40’s over-coiffed, pinned-up updo” that turned out to be one of ever-capable Eliza’s stumbling points, a blind cultist, and a 50-plus-year-old woman that are all the mercurial Ms. Dushku’s alter egos, a possible lesbian twist that hadn’t made it into this season’s roster, but is in the works for the upcoming ones, and what we have here is a recipe for some roaring good fun that is sure to echo all around domestic — and if Eliza and company get their wish — soon, even the foreign watercoolers.
Dollhouse premieres Friday, February 13, 9 PM EST/8 PM Central.
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