Alan Tudyk Hints at What to Expect on Dollhouse - Page 2

He hints that there might be a "kidnapping or two" in this next episode, but says that Alpha is most focused on his personal endgame. "Getting Echo was the second to the last step of his ultimate plan. He's got one more thing in place before they can really go on their worldwide domination killing spree, ruling the world spree. It's about making her in his own image." Tudyk laughs when Alpha and Echo are compared to Mickey and Mallory, the murderous couple in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, and admits that besides the comedic Kepler, he most enjoyed getting to play with Alpha's Mickey side.

Tudyk says, though, that there's fun in getting to play both the good guy and the bad guy. "I have to say, this last episode that we just saw was the perfect opportunity to explore that, what do I enjoy more, because for a good portion of it I was Kepler. I had so much fun playing Kepler and playing that buddy cop movie where he's [Tahmoh Penikett's Paul Ballard] the hard-nosed FBI agent and I'm the guy who hates buddy cop movies." He says that turning into a badass was a worthwhile experience, but if he had to choose one or the other, he'd go with the nice guy. "At the end of the day, I like goofing around onset and joking around with the crew and everything, and when you're playing somebody who is as intense as this guy is, I have to kind of be quiet and to myself from time to time and kind of keep focus. But luckily, I don't have to choose. Joss gave me this guy, which is both."

Though Whedon wasn't on set much, Tudyk says that they've been friends for so long now, still getting together at Whedon's house for Shakespeare readings or Firefly co-star Nathan Fillion's place for games of Pictionary ("Nathan is a very good drawer"), that their working relationship is easy and relaxed. Whedon allowed space for him to create Alpha, but Tudyk was "hungry for anything he gave me." Elaborating, he says, "I was really dependent on his vision. He's had this guy in mind from the beginning. In the playing of it, and the actual shooting of it, we got to have fun and there were a lot of little bits. The main thing for the last episode, he wanted Stephen Kepler to be — he wanted that fake-out as much as possible, although [laughs] it wasn't a very well-kept secret."

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