Alan Tudyk Hints at What to Expect on Dollhouse - Page 3

A few months ago, rumors began circulating around fan sites that Tudyk may very well be Alpha, and the Internet Movie Database went so far as to list him as such before "Briar Rose" had even aired. Though he says that fan sites aren't "up there to do my bidding," he was still disappointed that they would ruin the surprise. "I started writing an e-mail: 'Why are you doing this? Don't you think it would be best to keep this information to yourself if you have it, or even put out misinformation about this, or...why am I writing this e-mail?', and I deleted it and went about my life." He denied the rumors when confronted with them, but there wasn't much he could do once it had gotten out. In much the same way that online word about Dollhouse's early production problems placed a cloud over the show, the Internet's discovery of Alpha's identity threatened to kill some of the mystery.

Therefore, Tudyk is understandably tight-lipped about Alpha's fate. Asked what a possible second season for the series might mean for his character, all Tudyk will say is that he can't say: "Alpha may not make it through the next episode. He has Echo, and that's playing with fire. It could blow up in his face." What, then, about Alpha's place in the mysterious DVD-only thirteenth episode "Epitaph One"? "You'll never know... until you buy the DVD!"

Besides Dollhouse, Tudyk has been shooting a pilot for a remake of the '80s alien invasion series V, also starring fellow Firefly veteran Morena Baccarin. Though there's not much he can say about his role, he says that the pilot is "really good" and that fans shouldn't be disappointed. He confesses that the original is "really kind of cheesy," but assures viewers that this new version should "fill into your memory as it should be." Considering that the special effects are done by Zoic Studios, who helped bring Battlestar Galactica back to life (and, incidentally, did the CGI work on Firefly), perhaps V will be another cult blockbuster.

But right now, fans are still abuzz about his unexpected turn on Dollhouse. Someone raises the question of whether or not Alpha is the perfect human, considering the vast numbers of traits he embodies. Tudyk isn't so sure, saying, "I think he has the ability to be. In a lot of ways, when you're downloading a bunch of people, you're downloading perspective and experience. Somebody can go through one experience and have a conclusion about that and then another person can have the same experience and have a different conclusion. Somebody can end up enlightened, and somebody else can end up a villain. And I think he takes the wrong lessons from his downloaded experiences. He is certainly evolved, but I don't know. The swine flu is evolution, isn't it, in a way? It's an evolution of flu. That's sort of him."

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