Welcome to Eliza Dushku Media, your #1 Eliza Dushku resource! You may remember Eliza from Bring It On, The Alphabet Killer and True Lies but she's most famous for her television work as Echo in this year's Dollhouse, Tru Davies in the short lived series Tru Calling and, of course, the role that made her a star, Faith Lehane, vampire slayer gone bad in the cult hit Buffy the Vampire Slayer franchise.
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Eliza Dushku is a living doll. …You know, if the dolls you’re used to have downloadable personalities that turn them into killers, thieves and sexual role-players. As Echo, one of an illegal group of “actives” in Joss Whedon’s Dollhouse, Dushku gets a new personality every week. But as the second season gets started, we’ll see her default “Echo” personality plan and scheme based on what she’s learned from the various personas that have passed through her head (including her original, pre-Dollhouse identity, Caroline). We sat in on a conference call with Dushku as she talked about what her character would be up to this season, and how it is working with Whedon, the writers and new castmate Summer Glau.
TWoP: How do you feel the direction of this season is different from the last one?
Dushku: Well, there’s so much being cracked open and explored, especially with Echo having this new place that she’s in, in terms of what we picked up from last year. She had all of the personalities downloaded into her in one swift punch, and they’re not going away. So every pick-up this year, she’s still tapping into these personalities. Sometimes it’s not in her control, and other times it is. But, overall, she’s just really absorbing things from her engagements, and from the Dollhouse, and she’s really becoming self-aware, not necessarily as Caroline, but as Echo, as her own person. So it’s definitely complicated. It’s a little darker all around. We’ll explore the origins of some of the other dolls and the other characters and then bring in a bunch of guest stars, so there’s a lot of exciting stuff happening with those things as well.
The second season of Dollhouse is just barely under way, but we (and the rest of the country) are just loaded with questions about what the next season has in store for Echo, Sierra, Victor, Whiskey, and the other dolls. Earlier today we joined a group of journos and spoke with star Eliza Dushku about what we can expect this season. She tells us about the evolution of Echo, working with Joss Whedon, her horror film Open Graves, and… breastfeeding?
How do you feel the direction of this season differs from the first season?
There is so much being opened and explored. Last season, Echo had all these personalities downloaded into her in one punch, and they aren’t going away. As we pick up this year, she is still tapping into these personalities. Sometimes it is within her control, sometimes it’s not, but overall, she is absorbing things from her engagements and the Dollhouse, and becoming self-aware. Not as Caroline, but as her own person. It’s definitely complicated, and it’s darker all around. We will explore the background of some of the other characters.
BuddyTV has an awesome video interview with Eliza and her Dollhouse co-star Tahmoh Pennikett. Enjoy!
A photo shoot made up of 12 MQ’s from the October/November issue of Complex Magazine were added to the gallery. CLICK HERE TO READ THE INTERVIEW:
Plus the shoot video has been uploaded to the video archive:
I’m sure everyone’s already heard that Fox put a stopper in the 13th episode of Dollhouse this season, which created kind of a panic that the show wouldn’t be picked up again. But series creator Joss Whedon has “Hope” at PaleyFest 09:
“So right now I’ve gone from a sort of place of ‘You don’t even care, nobody loves me’ [laughs] to a place of God, I can’t believe I’m saying this … hope.
“We might actually get the chance to do what we’re dying to do, which is tell more of these stories with these crazy people because we have so many more yet to come,” Whedon said of the series in which Eliza Dushku (“Buffy”) plays an “active” whose memory is wiped and replaced to suit various “engagements.”
“Basically it’s what happens in the next few weeks; we have a new lead-in (replacing ‘Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles’), we have a few more episodes coming up — whether it’s 12 or 13 — they are fierce,” he added. “They are ridiculous; I am so proud of them. We’re going to go out this season with a bang, and hopefully we’ll get to come back for Season 2.”
Whedon said Episode 13, which Fox has said will not air and instead be included on the DVD, was “made on the cheap” and is a “strange and to me extraordinarily lovely episode and they weren’t necessarily going to air it and Fox studios was kind of going, ‘This is DVD extras. … We’ll sell all the DVDs [mock laughter].’ And I’ve been saying that I want this to air as part of the season. … The jury is out on that.”
