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Nash: This is Nash and Holly with Radio Dead Air and Ain’t It Cool News and we’re sitting down at Dragon Con in Atlanta with Adam Baldwin and Nathan Fillion, believe it or not.
Adam: We had a great time. You want to go ahead, Nate? Nathan: No, I was just wondering, do we have to lean into this . . . ? (the tape recorders) Nash: Oh, no, it’s pretty sensitive. Adam: All right. No, I was just going to say, we’ve had a day and a half here at DragonCon, and we’ve been meeting a lot of wonderful people. Great costumes. The energy here this year has been just outstanding, as far as I’m concerned. Not that I was here yesterday and I can judge it against anything, but everyone I’ve met so far has been so joyful and happy to be here. Nathan: Yeah, there certainly is a neat feeling of camaraderie here. I liked watching the Halo guys walking down and shaking hands with the Lord of the Rings hobbits and what not . . . Adam: The Star Wars Stormtrooper treasure hunt that they were doing? Nathan: (chuckle) “These are not the droids you’re looking for?” Nash: What? Holly: They give you a badge, and other stormtroopers have to collect them. They give you a ticket in return, and whichever stormtrooper gets the most of them wins. It’s like a treasure hunt for them. A Scavenger hunt. Nathan: It’s a card, and it has a droid on it. If you’ve got one, a stormtrooper in full costume can come up to you and say, “How long have you had these droids?” At which point you have to turn over your card to them. They give you a raffle ticket for playing. You can play in character; you can go out and laugh it up. “These aren’t the droids you’re looking for.” Holly: I don’t think they did it today, but usually during DragonCon the 501st, which is the name of the posse of stormtrooper guys, they do like a mega-parade with all of them together. You know, five Darth Vaders and all these Imperial Guard. One year one guys had an MP3 player with a speaker mounted on the front of his web belt playing the Imperial March. Nathan: Nice. Holly: People lost their minds watching that. Nash: Well, I guess obviously the first thing we want to bring up would be Serenity. Nathan: Please! Nash: It must have been great to hear after what happened with the show that you’d be coming back to do the movie. I’ve heard rumor that this is perhaps the first of maybe more, or . . . ? Adam: Well, it’s a dream come true to be back up in the air with Firefly . . . Serenity, as it is now. We were all heartbroken when it was knocked out of the air. Nathan: To say the least. Adam: And we’re fortunate to have this chance at redemption. It’s the only positive way that we can go forward and look at it. And the movie kicks ass. Nathan: It’s pretty good. Adam: It’s really great. Holly: So how long is it going to be in post with Zoic – the Emmy Award-winning Zoic, I should say – Adam: Well, fortunately, in the days of avid computer editing, they were able to edit as we went. So they have an assembly already, and I think now it’s just fine tuning, music scoring, sound effects, visual effects, and all that other stuff. But they’re way ahead of the curve on this one. Holly: I have a personal reason for asking this . . . the last five years in Austin, Harry from Ain’t It Cool News has hosted a film festival called “Butt-Numb-A-Thon.” It’s a 24 hour film festival, and due to his various contacts in the industry, he’s gotten brand new films for us. Like, “Pitch Black,” and Vin Diesel came. The last three years, even though we had to keep quiet about it for two years, we got all the “Lord of the Rings” films early. Last year we got “Return of the King,” and Peter Jackson came by. Adam: Well, the support that – Holly: We’re really – Adam: I understand where you’re going. The support that Ain’t It Cool News has given to our show over the time that we were on is something that did not go unnoticed. We appreciate the people that understood what we were trying to do. You’re on the short list, put it that way. Holly: Awesome. From what I understood New Line wasn’t wanting to give Ain’t It Cool “Fellowship,” and we got the print that the next day was going to New York for a 9/11 benefit. We got to see it first, and they were a little hot about that . . . Adam: Well, Hercules was on our set, and who was the other guy who was there? There were two people who came out from Ain’t It Cool News, Hercules and . . . the other guy. Eh, you’ll work it out. So they were there and they had a good time and they toured around and were able to interview Joss. Those relationships are close. No guarantees, I’m just the actor . . . Nash: Now, you have to admit, Firefly’s got to be one of the more unique ideas for a science fiction show. What happened when Joss approached you about the project? Adam: I just started off with basically going in and meeting him to see if . . . well, it was an audition process. He was familiar with who I was from my other work, and brought me in to meet him. Nathan: Were you in love with your role that you were auditioning for? Adam: I didn’t see a script. I saw some sides, that’s all I saw when I went to meet him. It was a very short notice thing. But I understood the rhythm and the dialect immediately because it was from the kind of movies my father took me to when I was young. I was a big Warren Oats fan, Eli Wallach fan, guys like that. Struther Martin. So it rang my chimes, and I think there was that synergy with Joss from the get-go. But it was a straight-on audition process. Then I had to go test for the network. Nate got the straight offer, though – Nathan: (laugh) Not so much. Adam: That’s what you told me! Nathan: Yeah, I told you that, but not so much. Myself, I had a deal with 20th Century Fox and they were going to try to help me to find a job. They put me on a meeting with Joss Whedon. At that time there was no script available, there was just a treatment, which is basically a play by play of what’s going to happen in the script that’s not yet been written. And I was in love. Right off the bat, I was in love. And I didn’t even know how they spoke, just a line here and there. I thought, “This is the greatest show.” I had a ton of questions, and I went to Joss Whedon. This is a man who when he creates something in his mind leaves no stone unturned. He’s got every detail. And I was in, I wanted it so bad. I fell in love then, right then. Before I even got the audition, I was in love. Nash: Now these are very intense characters. You run the gamut between the captain and Jane . . . how much input did you have in their development, and how much was just on the writer’s side of things? Adam: Well, we had zero input. Nathan: (laugh) Pretty much.