Friendship with Joss Whedon has its privileges. Just ask actress Amy Acker who is as surprised as anyone to have played such an integral role in what’s shaping up to be a pretty epic final season of DOLLHOUSE.
“The day before they started shooting the pilot, Joss [Whedon] called me up and said ‘We’ve got this part, she was supposed to be this 55 year old woman, but I’m thinking that you should do it’,” revealed Acker at yesterday’s Television Critics Associaiton Press Tour in Pasadena while promoting her upcoming ABC small town thriller HAPPY TOWN. “I didn’t know if I was just going to be in the pilot and of course I had no idea I would end up as a Doll and all this stuff would unfold.”
By ‘all this stuff,’ Acker is of course referring to the jaw-droppoing turn of events that took place during last Friday’s episode that saw Dr. Saunders/Whiskey unapologetically put a bullet through Bennett’s head.
“I think people think I look innocent so they like to have me ending up being a killer,” joked the actress. “You get to do so much more with these types of supernatural or mysterious characters. Like on ANGEL, getting to play a girl in a cave and coming out playing this Blue Demon Goddess, you don’t really get to do that on a CSI or something. With these guys [HAPPY TOWN creators Josh Appelbaum, André Nemec and Scott Rosenberg] and Joss, you get to experience a whole range of emotions, where it feels like you’re doing twenty-five different shows. Funny episodes… scary episodes… you’re not trapped [as an actress]. Like the episode of ANGEL where he was a puppet, that could have been on a sitcom.”
Unfortunately, there is nothing funny about FOX’s cancellation of the struggling sophomore series, which has a mere two episoes remaining after quietly morphing itself into one of television’s most daring and thought-provoking shows.
“I have one more episode, but it’s a very different [episode] than that one [on Friday].” teased Acker who was playing coy when asked about the possibility of a Boyd/Claire connection “There will be a connection, but it’s not Claire. I definitely have something to do with Rossum in the next episode… does that make sense?
With two episodes left, “Dollhouse” will deliver the answers that fans of the show have been waiting for on January 15. In “The Hollow Men“, sacrifices are made when Echo leads her crew to Arizona to dismantle the Rossum Corporation’s mainframe.
Among the highlights in the preview are a one-on-one confrontation between Echo and Dr. Claire Sanders, Topher being ‘chosen’ by Boyd, and Paul telling Echo that he is glad they are together. Above all of that, explosions occur in the lab and Boyd tells Echo that she is the ‘key’.
“Dollhouse”, surviving only two seasons, will wrap it all up in the 13th episode called “Epitaph Two: Return”. Picking up from the events depicted in “Epitaph 1,” the “lost” episode is set in the year 2020. Echo and her surviving Dollhouse crew attempt to restore order to a devastating future world before mankind is eliminated.
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ECHO RACES TO STOP AN APOCALYPSE ON THE SERIES FINALE OF “DOLLHOUSE” FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, ON FOX
Picking up from the events depicted in “Epitaph 1,” the “lost” episode of DOLLHOUSE, and set in the year 2020, Echo and her surviving Dollhouse crew attempt to restore order to a devastating future world before mankind is eliminated in “Epitaph 2: The Return,” the series finale episode of DOLLHOUSE, airing Friday, Jan. 22 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DOL-213) (TV-14 D, L, V)
Cast: Eliza Dushku as Echo; Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Ballard; Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt; Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton; Fran Kranz as Topher Brink; Enver Gjokaj as Victor; Dichen Lachman as Sierra
Guest Cast: Amy Acker as Dr. Claire Saunders; Summer Glau as Bennett Halverson; Miracle Laurie as Madeline Costley/November; Reed Diamond as Laurence Dominic; Alan Tudyk as Alpha; Adair Tishler as Caroline; Maurissa Tancharoen as Kilo; Felcia Day as Mag; Zack Ward as Zone; Nate Dushku as Clive; Noah Harpster as Matthew; Christian Monzon as Romeo; Brandon Dieter as T.
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SACRIFICES ARE MADE WHEN ECHO LEADS THE CHARGE TO TAKE DOWN THE ROSSUM CORPORATION ON AN ALL-NEW “DOLLHOUSE” FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, ON FOX
Sacrifices are made when Echo leads her crew to Arizona to dismantle the Rossum Corporation’s mainframe in the all-new “The Hollow Men” episode of DOLLHOUSE airing Friday, Jan. 15 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DOL-212) (TV-14 D, L, V)
Cast: Eliza Dushku as Echo; Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Ballard; Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt; Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton; Fran Kranz as Topher Brink; Enver Gjokaj as Victor; Dichen Lachman as Sierra
Guest Cast: Amy Acker as Dr. Claire Saunders; Summer Glau as Bennett Halverson; Miracle Laurie as Madeline Costley/November; Reed Diamond as Laurence Dominic.
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SACRIFICES ARE MADE WHEN ECHO LEADS THE CHARGE TO TAKE DOWN THE ROSSUM CORPORATION ON AN ALL-NEW “DOLLHOUSE” FRIDAY, JANUARY 15, ON FOX
Sacrifices are made when Echo leads her crew to Arizona to dismantle the Rossum Corporation’s mainframe in the all-new “The Hollow Men” episode of DOLLHOUSE airing Friday, Jan. 15 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DOL-212) (TV-14; D, L, V) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1
Cast: Eliza Dushku as Echo; Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Ballard; Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt; Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton; Fran Kranz as Topher Brink; Enver Gjokaj as Victor; Dichen Lachman as Sierra
Guest Cast: Amy Acker as Dr. Claire Saunders; Summer Glau as Bennett Halverson; Miracle Laurie as Madeline Costley/November; Reed Diamond as Laurence Dominic.
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ECHO’S ORIGINAL PERSONALITY IS THE KEY TO AVERTING A DISASTER ON AN ALL-NEW “DOLLHOUSE” FRIDAY, JANUARY 8, ON FOX
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Topher races to reconstruct Echo’s original personality and memories when Adelle realizes they are the key to adverting a devastating future. Meanwhile, Echo and Bennett’s shared past and the identity of the Rossum’s Corpration’s mysterious leader are revealed in the all-new “Getting Closer” episode of DOLLHOUSE airing Friday, Jan. 8 (9:00-10:00 PM ET/PT) on FOX. (DOL-211) (TV-14; D, L, S, V) CC-HDTV 720p-Dolby Digital 5.1
Cast: Eliza Dushku as Echo; Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Ballard; Olivia Williams as Adelle DeWitt; Harry Lennix as Boyd Langton; Fran Kranz as Topher Brink; Enver Gjokaj as Victor; Dichen Lachman as Sierra
Guest Cast: Amy Acker as Dr. Claire Saunders; Summer Glau as Bennett Halverson; Miracle Laurie as Madeline Costley/November; Reed Diamond as Laurence Dominic; Philip Casnoff as Clive Ambrose; Liza Lapira as Ivy; Rick Otto as Gabe; Jay Malone as Young Man.
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