Jun/090
Upcoming ‘Self’ Issue
Exciting news! Eliza has posted on her official Twitter that both Eliza & Dollhouse co-star Dichen Lachman will be on the cover of Self magazine for the October issue — they’re shooting the pics today in Malibu. 
SELF magazine-workout-photoshoot tomorrow w/ my fellow DOLL Dichen Lachman for October issue… Zexy.
Jun/090
‘Fulfillment Funds’ Additions
I’ve updated the gallery with over 040 rare HQ images from the ‘Fulfillment Funds 3rd Annual ‘Back to School Night” event which Eliza attended with brother Nate back in 2002. Gallery link and previews are below; enjoy this trip down memory lane!
Gallery Link
- Fulfillment Funds 3rd Annual ‘Back to School Night’
Jun/090
Possible New Project?
The Names Blog at The Boston Globe posted a little titbit about a possible new film role for Eliza last week (June 16) — though I’m pretty sure filming is halfway done & Eliza started filming the new series of Dollhouse this month so don’t get your hopes up. 
The short article is posted below.
It’s hard to slow Eliza Dushku down. At 28, the actress reckons she’s been to 30 countries, including, most recently, a trip to Uganda to meet with former child soldiers attempting to reintegrate themselves into society. But even when she’s sitting still, as she was yesterday with boyfriend Rick Fox at the Capital Coffee House on Beacon Hill, Dushku’s mind is elsewhere. “I’m wearing my green today,” said the “Dollhouse” star, showing solidarity for Iran’s Green Revolution. “It’s a bra, but that’s OK.” Dushku, who grew up in Watertown, has been in town shooting “Valediction,” a psychological thriller in which she plays a temptress. (The target of her affection? A married man played by “Chronicles of Narnia” actor Ben Barnes.) “On paper, it’s ‘Fatal Attraction’ and ‘Black Widow,’” she said. “But when we shot it, Ben’s character was more redeeming.” Dushku is returning to LA today to begin work on season two of Joss Whedon’s “Dollhouse,” and to get cracking on a biopic of famed photographer Robert Mapplethorpe. Her company Boston Diva Productions is producing, and the actress’s brother Nate is set to star. “We’re working with the Mapplethorpe estate and Patti Smith is interested,” said Dushku. (It’ll be the first feature from “DiG!” director Ondi Timoner, whose most recent film “We Live in Public” bowled over the actress and her baller boyfriend.) Is Eliza intimidated to be producing? “I’ve been in this business now for 18 years, I’ve taken some notes,” she said. “I can’t settle for showing up and looking pretty.” We may see her again soon: She just read for the part of a tough-talking Charlestown chick in “The Town.”
Source: The Names Blog
Jun/090
Los Angeles Film Festival
Eliza attended the We Live in Public screening at the ‘Los Angeles Film Festival’ yesterday (June 21) with director Ondi Timoner — looking lovely as always — thus a mixture of MQ & HQ images have been added to the gallery. I’ve also added a single image from the ‘SAGIndie party’, which we now know that Eliza co-hosted, thanks to her Twitter update. Gallery links and previews are below, enjoy!
Gallery Links
- Los Angeles Film Festival – ‘We Live In Public’ Screening
- Los Angeles Film Festival – SAGIndie And WGA Party
Jun/090
‘Dollhouse’ Season 2
Once again, thanks to Lindsay Soll at Hollywood Crush, we have an exclusive from Eliza about the 13th episode of Dollhouse; storylines for season 2; and a possible cameo by Nathan Fillion — filming begins next month! Extracts are posted below, happy reading.
In a recent interview with MTV, Dushku said the episode, which is a flash-forward to an post-apocalyptic “different world of where the Dollhouse can and would evolve to,” will still have some continuity to seasons one and two.
“It’s still relevant and there are still pertinent points and pieces that people will be able to just sort of add to the backstory and a fast-forward story,” the actress says. “The Dollhouse is deep.”
Eliza said Whedon shot the episode in HD (no word yet on whether it will be presented in HD at Comic-Con) and it was intended to be a no-holds-barred mess of anarchy and destruction that would give the show a satisfactory finale if the show had been canceled.
Eliza wouldn’t give any huge plot points away about the second season of “Dollhouse,” but she did say that there would definitely be some storylines following gay and lesbian characters, and some storylines that would follow her own “adventures” she’s had traveling to Uganda assisting the rehabilitation of child soldiers.
“Last season we already had an idea for a Liberian child soldiers story and it just didn’t make it into the first 13. Now with the second season, we have a lot of stories that we’re looking forward to telling,” she says. “I sort of do my crazy adventures and come up and share them with him and they pop up in the scripts.… We aim to be socially and politically relevant.”
News has already broke that “Firefly” alum Alan Tudyk will reprise his role as Alpha next season, but Dushku did tease that “Castle” star and “Firefly” alum Nathan Fillion might be the next to join the team.
“We didn’t get Fills on [season one],” she said, “but you know, never say never.”
Source: Hollywood Crush
Jun/090
Premiere date for ‘Dollhouse’ S2!
Thanks to Ausiello, I can reveal that Dollhouse will be returning on September 18, 2009. Listed below are the rest of the premiere dates, as recently unveiled by FOX.
So You Think You Can Dance: Wednesday, Sept. 16 @ 8 pm/ET
Glee: Wednesday, Sept. 16 @ 9 pm/ET
Bones: Thursday Sept. 17 @ 8 pm/ET
Fringe: Thursday Sept. 17 @ 9 pm/ET
Dollhouse: Friday, Sept. 18 @ 9 pm/ET
House: Monday, Sept. 21 @ 8 pm/ET (two-hour episode)
The Simpsons: Sunday, Sept. 27 @ 8 pm/ET
Family Guy: Sunday, Sept. 27 @ 9 pm/ET
Lie to Me: Monday, Sept. 28 @ 9 pm/ET
The Wanda Sykes Show: Saturday, Nov. 7 @ 11 pm/ET
Jun/090
Details on ‘Valediction’
Hollywood Crush at MTV.com recently spoke to Eliza about her new movie, Valediction, where Eliza revealed more about the story (Loaded Gun got a few details wrong), her character, and the rest of the cast. The movie is slated for a theater release next year. Extracts from the article are posted below, enjoy!
“It’s about this young couple and they have a 6-year-old daughter, seemingly in a coma, but [they learn] she’s actually alive and fully living out in her brain, but is just in this locked-in state,” Eliza explains. “So he’s trying to have his daughter wake up from this traumatic experience.”
The film centers around a car accident Josh (Ben) has which leaves his daughter Brooke in a coma. But there’s more to the crash than meets the eye, according to Eliza, who adds that the film is being characterized as a “contemporary psychological thriller.”
Eliza plays Renee, Josh’s former co-worker who he had an affair with. Josh, who left his advertising gig to settle down with his wife (Sarah Roemer) and daughter, is feeling trapped by his life when the film begins — right before Renee reenters into his life, and the accident occurs.
“[Josh] sort of meets up with Renee and wonders what would have happened if he went that route. It really is about his struggle both with these women in his life and then with his daughter who’s been injured,” notes Eliza. “It turns into a really psychological chaos.”
The film is directed by Suri Krishnamma and will co-star Brenda Fricker, Johnny Whitworth and Dennis Haysbert. Eliza said it was a combination of the script, Krishnamma and her castmates that cemented her desire to be in the film.
“It just seemed to me that there weren’t stories that were about young people but were adults that were dealing with these struggles,” she said of her new project, which is slated to hit theaters next year. “It seemed to me like a more sophisticated character that I wanted to sort of take a stab at.”
Source: Hollywood Crush
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Currently, Eliza has completed season 1 of Dollhouse - the new TV series from Joss Whedon, where Eliza is also producer - & is filming several movies before returning to the second season of Dollhouse.
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