Eliza Dushku Interview

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Part Three - New TV series Tru Calling

Tell me about Tru Calling. Tru Calling is about a girl who gets the chance to save people's lives. She gets a job at the city morgue and gets the chance to go back 24 hours and keep people from dying, which is a big story line in itself.


But then comes the whole idea of what if you can't save those people and how is it affecting the other people around if she saves the person who maybe was supposed to die? It comes down to what is someone's fate and what is someone's destiny and is she now playing God with these people's lives? How does she know what direction to go? That's a really cool story. I think there's a lot of room for different story lines and different emotions and adventures and things like that.
So it's the day of the death and the aftermath of that? It's about dealing with the day and seeing if she can recreate that day and keep these people alive before they would have died. So she meets them in the morgue, the bodies come into the morgue. She gets the graveyard shift job and so it's kind of her first night there. The pilot is set up, she hears voices and she goes down, sees this body in the morgue and then the day- - it flash cuts to her waking up in her bed going, "Oh my God, was it a nightmare? What's happening?"

Are there some episodes where you don't save them? Yeah. She's not a superhero.

What made you want to return to series TV? I don't know. I had done a couple of films and I just think the bar between television and film has really been lifted, that one is considered A list and one is B list. Also, there is something for me about I'm 22 years old and I kind of wanted to have more routine maybe. When you travel around a lot, you don't really get to see your friends. I kind of wanted to be somewhere doing something more consistent. So, that attracted to me.

Will Tru be similar or different from Faith? I guess we're the same. I mean, Eliza, me, I'm kind of the core of the woman there, but different because they have different backgrounds. They come from different places. They have different support systems. Faith was kind of always this orphan child and my character Tru, her mother was murdered when she was 10 years old. She has her older sister who's a coke head. Her brother is a compulsive gambler, so she's trying to keep her family together at the same time. I think she's a little bit more responsible in that sense and she's not trying to be a saint, but she's just trying to do right. She's just trying to do good.
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http://actionadventure.about.com/cs/weeklystories/a/aa052403_3.htm

Eliza is also asked about Angel, Buffy & Wrong Turn. She has some really nice comments about the Buffy finale.
 
Eliza interview from FilmForce.Net:
http://filmforce.ign.com/articles/421/421047p2.html
IGNFF: I heard they were actually devising a Faith spin-off for you. Why did you decide not to go that route?

DUSHKU: The idea for the Faith spin-off just kind of came up in discussion because everyone really, I think, was feeling like this show's going to end and there are all these fans who love it so much and who love these characters and so, if possible, how could we extend that? I just personally felt like... It would have been a really hard thing to do, and not that I wouldn't have been up for a challenge, but with it coming on immediately following the show, I think that those would have been really big boots to fill. I think it would have been compared to Buffy. And just in terms of me, I've played that character on and off for five years now and I've changed a lot and while the character of Faith changed when I came back because I've changed, I felt like maybe it was time to... I mean, I love Faith. She's my girl and she's been really good to me, but I kind of just wanted to try something else. Purely that, because it had nothing to do with me not trusting Joss and his team of writers, who I just think are amazing. Tim Minear and Drew Goddard and Marti Noxon and all these people, they're so talented and it had nothing to do with me doubting that they could make this show amazing, but I just... I don't know, sometimes you have to go with your gut, and my gut was telling me that I maybe needed to try something else that was just different.

IGNFF: Speaking of that, your new show, Tru Calling just got picked up and is set to debut on FOX next season. Tell me a bit about it "“ it sounds kind of Sixth Sense-ish.

DUSHKU: Yeah, it's about a girl who [is] given an opportunity almost to play God and she gets a job at this city morgue and her day repeats itself after she's seen these bodies in the morgue. She goes back 24 hours before the people are deceased and has the chance to save them or not. And she won't always be able to save them because she's not a superhero, but it's kind of this thing, like, "What if?" What if you could go back 24 hours and change fate, change destiny, change someone's life? Sometimes she won't be able to save people. And if she does save someone, then how does that affect other people? It's an interesting idea to play around with.

IGNFF: How would you compare this character to characters you've played in the past?

DUSHKU: A lot of times, characters I've played in the past were really close to who I, Eliza, was at the time. Especially Faith "“ when I started Faith, I was 17 years old and I had just graduated from high school. High school is so hard for everyone, especially young girls. For me, it was not easy being Actress Girl at public school in Boston. [Laughs.] People did not think that was cute. They were like, "She is not all that." So I got a lot of grief for being an actress. I really had to make this big tough girl front, just to survive. Real hard-as-nails, like, "Nothing you can say can hurt me!" So I was really playing that tough, rebellious, "no one can hurt me" girl. Now I'm 22 years old and I'm farther ahead in my recovery from high school! [Laughs.] I'm less defensive and I'm more confident in who I am and who I'm trying to be and who I'm gonna be in life and I think that that's kind of where Tru is. We meet her and she's just graduating from college and she's about to start this grown-up life. That's a really interesting age, I think, 22, because you really feel like you're independent now and you're self-sufficient and you have to take responsibility for who you are and the things you do and the people you surround yourself with. And you start to re-evaluate your relationship with your family and friends and stuff like that. So I feel like she's a lot where I am right now.
 
OOOOOOOOOOOO! Thank you Faith_Forever! That was a good interview. I'm still upset she didn't go for the Faith spin-off though, that would have been so awesome!
 
Yes that ashame but... well it maybe it will someday.... i would really like that.... *goes of reading the interviews*
 
If Tru Calling doesnt turn out good, there's always the option of the Faith spin-off so I think she made the right decision. And I agree, I guess its time for people to see a different side of Eliza than just Faith...
 
As much as I wanted to see a Faith spinoff...I agree Magickal. It's in Eliza's best interest to try something different.
 
agree...it's one thing to be playing the same type of character for so long, but to play the same character for too long is not usually good for one's career.
 
yes also i agree with that... or they will see eliza as faith for the rest of her career
 
I think Buffy has nearly endless comback potential. I doubt that we've seen the very last of the Buffy characters. If not on Angel, then maybe a movie or something.

I would agree that Eliza made a good choice by going with Tru Calling.
 
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