exsequar | Sweet barbequed crap!

can I just say how much I LOVE the cast of Firefly/Serenity???? Interviews with them are always hi-larious! To bring a bit of shiny to your days, I'm gonna share some of the funniest bits from the interviews that can be found here: http://www.empireonline.co.uk/interviews_and_events/

Jewel Staite: "Alan had this line in the series where he had to say 'sweet barbequed crap!' But he didn't have the Chinese and the guest director didn't know if he was supposed to do it in English or Chinese. So Alan did it in English four or five different times. Over and over. And he's like 'sweet barbequed crap!' 'sweet barbequed crap!' 'sweet barbequed crap!'' And Nathan is sitting there reading a magazine and goes 'I'll have the same.'"

Summer Glau: (Question) We've heard you're the butt of most on-set jokes. How did that come about?
"Oh God! There was a really long take with lots of talking and I had, like, one line right at the very end, which I messed up. Everyone yelled "Summer!" Then on the next take Nathan messed it up and he yelled "Summer!" too. Now my name's become synonymous with messing up. Even when I'm not on set!"

Sean Maher: "But then I remember being away for a while and then I came back to LA and went to Joss' house for dinner one night, just me and Summer." (Okay, not so much with the funny but more with the AWWWW. I love when my OTPs are BFFs in real life.)

Alan Tudyk: "You know what? I didn’t have my three switches when they rebuilt the ship, and I was looking but I couldn’t find anybody and it was a new crew, I didn’t know who to talk to, and I was [disconsolate] ‘dammit!’ So I was leaving and Nathan said, ‘what’s up man?’ ‘Well…I don’t have my three switches…it’s sort of a drag.’ But then he called me that night and he’s like, ‘we got you three switches.’ And he’d gone and found the person so it was like three switches, right here, click click click [Beams]."

(Surprisingly, Nathan didn't say anything all too funny in his interview. However, he makes up for it... read on! :D)

From the group chat with Summer, Nathan, Morena, and Joss:
Nathan: Joss, I have a question
Joss: Ask away, Nathan

Nathan: What is your greatest weakness Joss?
Joss: Nathan, you know it's you, baby

Mac: Joss, any plans to bring the cast from Serenity over to Wonder Woman?
Joss: Yes, the entire cast from Serenity will be playing Steve Trevor
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Joss: Joss, how can you be so sexy and yet so humble?
Joss: Well, Joss, I'm glad you asked. It's not easy, and I trained for years with monks in Tibet who are both sexy and humble - but mostly sexy
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Morena: Nathan, Stop touching me...
Nathan: Your fingers type stop, but your eyes type don't stop
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errhead: Morena. how do you feel about presenting prostitution in a positive light?
Morena: I don't see it as prostitution, I see it as being an ambassador...of sex.
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Nathan: I plan on becoming a recluse, growing my fingernails to extraordinary lengths and jarring my urine

Joss: Tace, while Nathan is becoming a recluse, I will be trolling the conventions for loose women with, needless to say, poor eyesight.
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Zol: Joss, will we ever see that moment that Mal & Inara spend a night of passion together?
Joss: Zol, what do you mean "moment"? That's going to be at least a minute and twenty-eight seconds

Nathan: Are you saying you like to watch?

Summer: I don't know what it is but it sounds fun...
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ChewieOz: How do you keep your egos in check, since you are all so talented, funny and good-looking?
Nathan: Egos in what?

Summer: Nathan keeps beating me down.

Morena: Nathan keeps us in check.

Joss: I have more humbility (see above re Tibet) than all of these losers combined. That's how I do it.

Eileen: Who keeps Nathan in check?
Morena: Joss.

Nathan: I'm preparing them for the harshness of real life, lest the world crush them in its icy grip.
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gregd: Did Adam Baldwin get to keep Vera, or did Nathan steal it to sell on eBay?
Joss: gregd, Nathan would never steal. It would interfere with his busy murder schedule.

escapedape: Who keeps the raw sex power of Alan Tudyk in check?
Nathan: Ron Glass

Joss: There is a facility in Montana where they have to put him when it gets too bad.
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Niamh: Nathan: Is it true you stole all the Alliance money from the set?
Nathan: Only a fool would confess to such a brilliant piece of criminal mastermindedness

Morena: Yes, and then he tried to pay me off with it.
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demonbunny: Nathan, how is the flip off contest going with Jewel? Who is winning so far?
Nathan: In Atlanta, at Dragoncon, Jewel arranged for over 2000 people to flip me double-birds. It still burns

Nathan: Now I'm afraid of real birds

Nathan: And slightly afraid of fingers

Summer: I think Jewel won!
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JackK: Joss, will the Cheeseman in Buffy that was just random ever return?
Joss: I was working on a spin-off cop show "Primitive and Cheeseman". They were going to fight crime and maybe learn something from each other about being primitive or having cheese. It didn't get off the ground... because it's a crap idea.
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sutty: Summer, did you have fun beating up Adam and Sean?
Summer: So much.

Nathan: We all have fun beating up Sean
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JackK: Joss, my mum wants to know if you could package David Boreanaz and send him to her?
Joss: He didn't arrive? This is very bad news as I may have forgotten to poke air holes in the package.
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Chloe: Hey Nathan - did those tight tight trousers do you any lasting damage??
Nathan: Chloe, is this a fertility question? Is this where our relationship is going?

Tanisafan: Besides Sean 'The Bod' Maher, what other nicknames did you guys have for each other?
Morena: Jewel and I call each other Asshole

Joss: Adam "Girly Man" Baldwin; Jewel "Barely speaks English" Staite; Nathan "The Bod, But He Borrowed It From Sean" Fillion; Summer "Girly Man" Glau; and the rest we all call Sparky.
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jpr: To all: Is this movie going to be, dare I say it, accessible to those who haven't seen a single episode of FIREFLY, or who may have been dead or unborn when Buffy was on the air?
Joss: If it isn't, I have failed on a spectacular level.

Nathan: jpr, you'll have to tell me. I'm too close to the project. We are actually getting married as soon as the damn Republicans stop making it illegal to marry movies.
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schwar: are you all nice when you are drunk?
Joss: James from Empire says that we're quite testy. Just because we beat the piss out of him ONE TIME! Get over it! We needed your wallet.
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phoenixx: Nathan, do you enjoy being the houswives' favourite? Do women approach you in supermarkets?
Nathan: I always go to supermarkets in disguise as Joss and I'm totally left alone. Avoided, even
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philUK: Joss, in Serenity universe before earth got destroyed, what happened to the UK? Did we finally become the fifty-first state?
Joss: Yes. In fact, America annexed England and the planet that represents America in Serenity and Firefly is called Londinium, proving once and for all that we killed daddy because we wanted to be him.

Sorry, that got pretty long - but they're just so damn funny! Definitely worth a read.

Fun bits of trivia - Nathan watches Lost (hee!); Objects in Space (my favorite!) is Summer and Joss's favorite episode, while Out of Gas (my second fave!) is Joss's objective fave; Summer is filming a sci-fi comedy in Romania (or was?); ummm, just go read them all! :)