Post by pearl on Nov 30, 2006 17:17:27 GMT -5
Nathan Fillion (aka Cyrus) talks about his work on the RPG, the other Characters and the future of LOST:
Again the applause from the audience dies down and Jay sorts his paper cards together on his desk.
"Well, well, wasn't that a funny girl ... but let's see who we can introduce next ..."
His eyes wonder over his cards.
"Okay, you all might wanna know him as the captain of ..."
A girl in the back row yells: "Buhjah!" Leno starts to laugh.
"Someone up there is very excited!"
He nods in the direction where the yelling came from.
"I would ask you to come down, take a seat but that would surely slow things down."
"It's okay ..." the girl yells back turning red instantly.
"Okay then, especially for you little lady I am introducing captain tightpants Nathan Fillion everybody!"
The band starts to play and the curtains open for the tall guy.
Nathan enters, smiling at the crowd brightly and waving with enthusiasm, and hopping into the chair, crossing his legs.
"You know what my mum would say, you seem to have pepper up your ass!"
Jay smiles at Nathan nicely.
"Oh, that's ridiculous. It's more of a bread stick."
"Sounds pleasant actually."
"Oh, it's hard to live with, sometimes, but...it's like a friend to me by now." he replied, gleefully sending himself up.
"Don't move to much ... we don't want you to get to much pleasure out of it tonight."
Leno is pretending to go up and down on his chair like riding a a horse.
"Anyway have you heard how excited everyone was about you before? I mean, not everyone but one girl for sure!"
"Well, at least there's one girl." he laughed. "I love all my fans. Except for those damn Canadians. Sneaky."
A few people in the audience jump up and wave a Canadian flag ... obviously some kind of fanclub.
"Yeah ... those damned Canadians!"
Leno quoted with acted madness.
"They were tossing shops apart and put cars on fire down the street the entire morning!"
"Terrible. We need to quarantine off that country."
"I thought we did ... wait ... that was another country. But let's talk about your present TV project!"
"Oh, yes, the tv....an awesome medium."
"You are to be seen on LOST ... right? how is it to do something non science fictional for a living? I mean you are obviously from another star to say that!"
"Firefly never was really science fiction in the tradition sense. It dealt with human relationships and real social problems in a very different setting,
much like LOST does, which is what attracted me to it." he nodded. "That and the desperate need to pay the bills and eat once a month."
"And the girls in bikinis and the mangos for lunch and soone ..."
Jay acted like he was reading of a very long list.
He laughed. "Yeah, that too!" he grinned. "It's an attractive cast. I mean...personally I've fallen in love with Terry O'Quinn, who looks great in a bikini."
"I bet you cut yourself short ... I mean that boobs in a triangle ..."
Jay checks out Nathan's chest then he shakes his head fast.
"If Evangeline Lilly will ever watch this episode she will never forgive me for looking at someone else's chest!"
"Oh, yeah, you made an impression on her! She'll be seducing you any day now" chuckled Nathan.
Jay suddenly gets very excited.
"Did she tell ya that? Well, I have a certain thing with women ya know!"
"Yeah, lechery. Don't worry, so do I, that makes us brothers."
Jay gives Nathan a slight look as if he considers him a rival.
"This is my playground fellow!"
"Don't you start fightin' me, boy, I'm a cowboy." laughed Nathan.
"Is your role .... Cyrus ... kind of close to your firefly character or is it something completely different? Like someone cute, smart and manly."
"On the surface, they appear very similar, but in terms of their beliefs-belief is a big thing for both of them-they could not be more different." he
explained. "Mal thinks people have a right to be wrong, to make their own decisions, a right to be human and flawed....Cyrus wants people to be controlled
and shown the way, which happens to be his way. He wants control, but really, he's just misguided."
"That actually sounds very interesting ... will he show the girls how to rock? You know ... really rock Like wet T-shirt contests and stuff."
"Maybe, I think that's one of the Others' missions. It's why they're 'good guys'."
"Definitely good guys! And the island is paradise ... where all the women will finally do what they are told. Speaking of controlling women ... Cyrus already
smacked one right? Seems to get pretty rough on the island."
"Oh, I get plenty of fight scenes." replied Nathan. "It's great, I love fighting."
"Ever considered a job in the law enforcement?"
"Oh, no. I have considered light vigilante work."
"You kinda cleaning up in your hood huh?!"
"Yeah, what I do is wear a pink balaclava, get a big samurai sword and and kill shifty-lookin' Canadians. They call me the Pink Shadow."
"Yeah those damned Canadians!" Jay replied with a mean face.
"Oh, I just heard my quotes drop in the northern states."
"I wonder why." grinned Nathan.
"And that after I liberally agreed to have you on my show ... maybe if you would take your shirt of we would gain 40 % female watchers and 25% of the gay
community. The other 75 are watching Jimmy Kimmel right now." he smirked.
"Just 25%?"
"I didn't want to cut you short dude!" Jay laughed.
"We know people recognize you for your ... less dressed scenes from firefly ... something like that planned to boost LOST out of rough times?" he inquired.
"Well, LOST is full of attractive people....I don't know how the hell I got the job." he shrugged. "I am fortunate enough to share any future lurve scenes
with the beautiful Heidi Rittner, though. So, why complain about blatant graciousness?" He smiled.
"Yeah the beautiful Misses Rittner ..."
Jay was caught in daydreams.
"She did a great television debut on LOST. How was working with such a new star in the bizz?"
"Very...interesting, she's a joy to work with. Same goes for Brittany Thompson, another newcomer." he replied. "A lot of the actors on the show are great to
work with, Terry O'Quinn's one of my heroes, Michael Emerson was fantastic....Matthew Fox was a dick, though. He stole my pancakes on the first day and would
not put on some pants." Nathan shook his head. "I thought it was the cool thing, so I started doing it. As it turns out, it was just me and him. Walking
around set, no pants."
"I am having a gay moment here!" Leno joked pointing towards his lap.
"So people always come here >pretending< to work on a television show is always fun and everyone is nice and such. Be honest with me one time pall! What
bugged you the most while doing LOST?!"
Nathan paused for a moment.
"There are two things that bug me. One, we can be shooting for days, non-stop. It's very tiring, and as a result, there are very few showers. We all stink to
high heaven. Apart from the writers, those guys always smell great. I think there's a conspiracy goin' on there."
Nathan caught a deep breath.
"The second thing is the cloud of death that looms over each and every one of us. No one is safe. We've had two season deaths so far, the first was William
Mapother, and y'know, that was hard, 'cause we're all buddies on the set. I know Michelle Rodriguez and him are still really good friends, though. And the
second was Ian Somerhalder, which was also tough to deal with. Both great guys, but as characters, the stories had ended."
"Any diva bitch moments or actors struck by lightning?"
"Biggest diva bitch is me. If I don't have my make-up done and my donuts delivered by 10, I am inconsolable."
"I see!" Leno laughed heartly.
"I've heard the rumors that Denise Richards wanted Ian of the show because guys thought he was prettier than her ... but that's unconfirmed."
"Well, Ian had much better breasts."
"Well the everlasting struggle: Nature against boob job."
He turned to the audience standing up.
"As we won't confirm yet which one had a surgery to prevent future sueings."
Nathan laughed.
"Yeah, it was a constant struggle between Ian and Denise: Unnatural and natural. Ian had natural."
Leno got a shocked face and sat down slowly.
"You take that one on your account. Have you ever heard of Andy Martin the Talk show guy Denise was on last year?"
"No, not really. Hang on, Denise was on him? When did this happen?"
Jay laughed.
"He is serving coffee in Nova Scotia now ... do I need to say more. So zip it."
"Zipped."
"Alright then ... I am afraid to say that your time has come, this is it. The show is over you will never get as much limelite as tonight ever again."
Jay fastly pulled his papers together then smiling at Nathan as an excuse for dismissing him so rudely.
"That was lovely Nathan Fillion from LOST! And next week we have the woman who is bringing back Trolley Dollys on the big screen. Rachel Weisz will be
visiting us! It was nice having you!"
"Pleasure was mine!" Nathan smiled shaking Jay's hand as the band started to play the jingle.
Again the applause from the audience dies down and Jay sorts his paper cards together on his desk.
"Well, well, wasn't that a funny girl ... but let's see who we can introduce next ..."
His eyes wonder over his cards.
"Okay, you all might wanna know him as the captain of ..."
A girl in the back row yells: "Buhjah!" Leno starts to laugh.
"Someone up there is very excited!"
He nods in the direction where the yelling came from.
"I would ask you to come down, take a seat but that would surely slow things down."
"It's okay ..." the girl yells back turning red instantly.
"Okay then, especially for you little lady I am introducing captain tightpants Nathan Fillion everybody!"
The band starts to play and the curtains open for the tall guy.
Nathan enters, smiling at the crowd brightly and waving with enthusiasm, and hopping into the chair, crossing his legs.
"You know what my mum would say, you seem to have pepper up your ass!"
Jay smiles at Nathan nicely.
"Oh, that's ridiculous. It's more of a bread stick."
"Sounds pleasant actually."
"Oh, it's hard to live with, sometimes, but...it's like a friend to me by now." he replied, gleefully sending himself up.
"Don't move to much ... we don't want you to get to much pleasure out of it tonight."
Leno is pretending to go up and down on his chair like riding a a horse.
"Anyway have you heard how excited everyone was about you before? I mean, not everyone but one girl for sure!"
"Well, at least there's one girl." he laughed. "I love all my fans. Except for those damn Canadians. Sneaky."
A few people in the audience jump up and wave a Canadian flag ... obviously some kind of fanclub.
"Yeah ... those damned Canadians!"
Leno quoted with acted madness.
"They were tossing shops apart and put cars on fire down the street the entire morning!"
"Terrible. We need to quarantine off that country."
"I thought we did ... wait ... that was another country. But let's talk about your present TV project!"
"Oh, yes, the tv....an awesome medium."
"You are to be seen on LOST ... right? how is it to do something non science fictional for a living? I mean you are obviously from another star to say that!"
"Firefly never was really science fiction in the tradition sense. It dealt with human relationships and real social problems in a very different setting,
much like LOST does, which is what attracted me to it." he nodded. "That and the desperate need to pay the bills and eat once a month."
"And the girls in bikinis and the mangos for lunch and soone ..."
Jay acted like he was reading of a very long list.
He laughed. "Yeah, that too!" he grinned. "It's an attractive cast. I mean...personally I've fallen in love with Terry O'Quinn, who looks great in a bikini."
"I bet you cut yourself short ... I mean that boobs in a triangle ..."
Jay checks out Nathan's chest then he shakes his head fast.
"If Evangeline Lilly will ever watch this episode she will never forgive me for looking at someone else's chest!"
"Oh, yeah, you made an impression on her! She'll be seducing you any day now" chuckled Nathan.
Jay suddenly gets very excited.
"Did she tell ya that? Well, I have a certain thing with women ya know!"
"Yeah, lechery. Don't worry, so do I, that makes us brothers."
Jay gives Nathan a slight look as if he considers him a rival.
"This is my playground fellow!"
"Don't you start fightin' me, boy, I'm a cowboy." laughed Nathan.
"Is your role .... Cyrus ... kind of close to your firefly character or is it something completely different? Like someone cute, smart and manly."
"On the surface, they appear very similar, but in terms of their beliefs-belief is a big thing for both of them-they could not be more different." he
explained. "Mal thinks people have a right to be wrong, to make their own decisions, a right to be human and flawed....Cyrus wants people to be controlled
and shown the way, which happens to be his way. He wants control, but really, he's just misguided."
"That actually sounds very interesting ... will he show the girls how to rock? You know ... really rock Like wet T-shirt contests and stuff."
"Maybe, I think that's one of the Others' missions. It's why they're 'good guys'."
"Definitely good guys! And the island is paradise ... where all the women will finally do what they are told. Speaking of controlling women ... Cyrus already
smacked one right? Seems to get pretty rough on the island."
"Oh, I get plenty of fight scenes." replied Nathan. "It's great, I love fighting."
"Ever considered a job in the law enforcement?"
"Oh, no. I have considered light vigilante work."
"You kinda cleaning up in your hood huh?!"
"Yeah, what I do is wear a pink balaclava, get a big samurai sword and and kill shifty-lookin' Canadians. They call me the Pink Shadow."
"Yeah those damned Canadians!" Jay replied with a mean face.
"Oh, I just heard my quotes drop in the northern states."
"I wonder why." grinned Nathan.
"And that after I liberally agreed to have you on my show ... maybe if you would take your shirt of we would gain 40 % female watchers and 25% of the gay
community. The other 75 are watching Jimmy Kimmel right now." he smirked.
"Just 25%?"
"I didn't want to cut you short dude!" Jay laughed.
"We know people recognize you for your ... less dressed scenes from firefly ... something like that planned to boost LOST out of rough times?" he inquired.
"Well, LOST is full of attractive people....I don't know how the hell I got the job." he shrugged. "I am fortunate enough to share any future lurve scenes
with the beautiful Heidi Rittner, though. So, why complain about blatant graciousness?" He smiled.
"Yeah the beautiful Misses Rittner ..."
Jay was caught in daydreams.
"She did a great television debut on LOST. How was working with such a new star in the bizz?"
"Very...interesting, she's a joy to work with. Same goes for Brittany Thompson, another newcomer." he replied. "A lot of the actors on the show are great to
work with, Terry O'Quinn's one of my heroes, Michael Emerson was fantastic....Matthew Fox was a dick, though. He stole my pancakes on the first day and would
not put on some pants." Nathan shook his head. "I thought it was the cool thing, so I started doing it. As it turns out, it was just me and him. Walking
around set, no pants."
"I am having a gay moment here!" Leno joked pointing towards his lap.
"So people always come here >pretending< to work on a television show is always fun and everyone is nice and such. Be honest with me one time pall! What
bugged you the most while doing LOST?!"
Nathan paused for a moment.
"There are two things that bug me. One, we can be shooting for days, non-stop. It's very tiring, and as a result, there are very few showers. We all stink to
high heaven. Apart from the writers, those guys always smell great. I think there's a conspiracy goin' on there."
Nathan caught a deep breath.
"The second thing is the cloud of death that looms over each and every one of us. No one is safe. We've had two season deaths so far, the first was William
Mapother, and y'know, that was hard, 'cause we're all buddies on the set. I know Michelle Rodriguez and him are still really good friends, though. And the
second was Ian Somerhalder, which was also tough to deal with. Both great guys, but as characters, the stories had ended."
"Any diva bitch moments or actors struck by lightning?"
"Biggest diva bitch is me. If I don't have my make-up done and my donuts delivered by 10, I am inconsolable."
"I see!" Leno laughed heartly.
"I've heard the rumors that Denise Richards wanted Ian of the show because guys thought he was prettier than her ... but that's unconfirmed."
"Well, Ian had much better breasts."
"Well the everlasting struggle: Nature against boob job."
He turned to the audience standing up.
"As we won't confirm yet which one had a surgery to prevent future sueings."
Nathan laughed.
"Yeah, it was a constant struggle between Ian and Denise: Unnatural and natural. Ian had natural."
Leno got a shocked face and sat down slowly.
"You take that one on your account. Have you ever heard of Andy Martin the Talk show guy Denise was on last year?"
"No, not really. Hang on, Denise was on him? When did this happen?"
Jay laughed.
"He is serving coffee in Nova Scotia now ... do I need to say more. So zip it."
"Zipped."
"Alright then ... I am afraid to say that your time has come, this is it. The show is over you will never get as much limelite as tonight ever again."
Jay fastly pulled his papers together then smiling at Nathan as an excuse for dismissing him so rudely.
"That was lovely Nathan Fillion from LOST! And next week we have the woman who is bringing back Trolley Dollys on the big screen. Rachel Weisz will be
visiting us! It was nice having you!"
"Pleasure was mine!" Nathan smiled shaking Jay's hand as the band started to play the jingle.
