Who's Who in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse

Does anyone else get a slight Dark Angel feel about certain elements - the missions with the different personas etc? not that i mind that at all!
 
Yeah. Just finished watching Dark Angel for the first time. There's definitely an overlap of themes here...with the secret facility, the covert missions, the human experimentation, manipulation.

Dollhouse sounds like it's gonna focus even more on defining what it is to be human, human nature itself.
 
goldenboy said:
Dollhouse sounds like it's gonna focus even more on defining what it is to be human, human nature itself.
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Hence the morally grey areas Joss mentioned right? Seeing as how the human condition is generally a mess of character flaws and the possibility for ethical battles. I'm getting more and more intrigued by all the possibilities for storylines.
 
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I personally never get real "Dark Angel" vibes when reading about "Dollhouse"...there are a few themes that are similar but nothing striking, IMO.
 
I just thought this was interesting when I read it in a thread over at imdb.com and people were suggesting that Sean Maher (Simon in Firefly) would be good for either the part of Victor or Paul and can I just say that I totally agree and I would be so excited to she Sean in another Whedon show.
 
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yeah he would be a great fit also!
casting news

Yeeee!!!! Just in case you need more reason to get excited about Joss Whedon's return to television with the upcoming FOX drama series Dollhouse, here is some just-leaked casting scoop on who is joining the gang, including a certain Battlestar fan favorite (Helo!). Awe. Some.

Tahmoh Penikett as Paul Smith: 30s, good looks hardened by a cynical distaste for most of humanity. An FBI field agent, he's been chasing the urban myth of the Dollhouse long enough to have lost any shot at promotion. Becomes obsessed with and a twisted romantic foil for Echo (Eliza Dushku).

Fran Kranz as Topher Brink: 20s, genius programmer who's articulate, nerdily attractive and blithely amoral. He's responsible for imprinting the Dolls"”and making sure they stay unaware of anything. Is fascinated by the science and kind of digging the illegality. Fun to be around but might not be remotely trustworthy.

Dichen Lachman as Sierra: 20s, Asian (or certainly not Caucasian). Strikingly beautiful. A Doll like Echo, she has every personality in the world but her own. Is not as self-aware as Echo but is instinctively drawn to her as a friend.

Enver Gjokaj as Victor: 20s, handsome and fit. A Doll, and the other closest thing to a friend Echo has. Childlike when he's inactive, and everything from Errol Flynn to a young DeNiro when he's active.
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That Dichen chick is Australian, which makes me like her! But omg she was in Neighbours.. eww! lol. (Semi-crappy tv Aussie soap I used to watch as a kid)
 
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Paul Smith (Tahmoh Penikett)




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Topher Brink (Fran Kranz)




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Sierra (Dichen Lachman)




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Victor (Enver Gjokaj)

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Penikett should draw the ladies to Dollhouse,just as Dushku will draw the guys(not to mention all the Joss-aholics).

It should be interesting to see what chemistry the two have together.

I think Joss chose well with the cast we have so far. (Reax I've seen is mostly good(ESPECIALLY when it comes to Penikett,though Kranz is getting some love),but Lachman has some worried(more than a few who posted at TVGuide.com,where Mike Ausiello posted the casting news,said she wasn't that good on Neighbours. They also added that possibly Joss could work some magic...).)
 
ckg927 said:
Penikett should draw the ladies to Dollhouse,just as Dushku will draw the guys(not to mention all the Joss-aholics).

It should be interesting to see what chemistry the two have together.

I think Joss chose well with the cast we have so far. (Reax I've seen is mostly good(ESPECIALLY when it comes to Penikett,though Kranz is getting some love),but Lachman has some worried(more than a few who posted at TVGuide.com,where Mike Ausiello posted the casting news,said she wasn't that good on Neighbours. They also added that possibly Joss could work some magic...).)
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I would have thought JOSS would draw the Joss-oholics! ha, just kidding 🙂 I like Penikett being in the show, the guy's a good actor, could match Eliza on screen for intensity (something Eliza has the masterclass in, in my opinion.) I'd also like to see prominent Buffy alumns as guest stars, one off characters, that'd be cool. Marsters as a client or a villian springs to mind, he's been doing the rounds in EVERYTHING since his Buffy/Angel tenure. Also, Charisma as a season ice queen uber villian (I could see her channeling Evil Pregnant Cordy in this kind of role.)
 
I'm glad to see you guys say some of these selected actors are good, cause I don't know any of them and I got worried that they wouldn't be so good... even more knowing that one of them was playing in Neighbours... not that I know the show, just watched it once and it looked more like a drama soap than a proper serie, I'm predjudiced I know :S ... but like you said, Joss might manage to work his magic on them *cross fingers* and with Eliza to show them what acting's all about... they hopefully will be brillant :silly:
 
And another role is cast...

TV Guide's Michael Ausiello reports that Olivia Williams(who's appeared in,among other movies,The Sixth Sense and Rushmore)has been cast as Adelle DeWitt.
 
Down to two roles left to cast:

Harry Lennix(last seen on the series 24 and Commander in Chief)is on board in the rold of Boyd,an ex-cop who's now Echo's bodyguard.

(That according to TVGuide.com .)
 
Haha I love that Dichen Lachman is going to be playing Sierra. Why?? Because only 3days ago, my friends and I were discussing the ridiculous storylines of Neighbours (because we're all sad students that have to watch it), and how they have a habit of making characters disappear to work on farms and the such. And I brought up the subject of a female character who disappeared and I don't remember if there was a storyline for her leaving and where they said she was going to (it may have been a farm). Now I know that she left to pursue a career in Hollywood and landed a role in Dollhouse! It made us all laugh, anyway.
 
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