if magazine has a great interview with busy actor Nathan Fillion. Fillion touches on quite a number of topics. (An unknown fact is that I get stopped on the streets constantly being mistaken for Nathan. We look exactly alike.....)
On Drive: Alex Tully is guy much like me – I can handle problems if I can put my hands on them. I’m not a handyman, by any means, but I’ll take it apart and I’ll clean it and I’ll try to fix it, I’ll say, ‘That looks broke and I can try to fix that up.’ I’ve taught myself how to weld. If I can put my hands on it, I can [deal with it] and I think Alex Tully is much the same kind of person. So now he’s thrust into this race with no apparent finish line, his wife his missing – these problems are ethereal, that he cannot put his hands on. And he’s unsettled and he’s frustrated and it’s making him angry.
On Waitress: I feel awesome. I’m very excited about WAITRESS
On Lost: I don’t know how they came to me – I heard I was in contention for the role, so I just waited until they were going to decide either way, and a couple days later, I called [my agent] and I said, ‘Listen, call and whatever I have to do to get on that show, you tell them I’m willing to do it. Let me go down and read for it, let me get in there.’ It all worked out very well – they’ve been very kind to me.
On Firefly and Serenity: I’m always at peace with that guy. That [SERENITY] was my vindication. Saying goodbye to Malcolm Reynolds was premature when the series [FIREFLY] was canceled, but being able to come back with SERENITY was a real treat. More than I could ask for.
