“Castle” star Nathan Fillion can’t exactly relate to his “Monsters University” character, frat leader Johnny Worthington. “I wasn’t really a ‘winner’ growing up,” Fillion says. “More of a ‘weiner.’” In Disney-Pixar’s prequel to “Monsters Inc.,” Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal) and James “Sulley” Sullivan (John Goodman) meet for the first time their freshman year at Monsters University, and we get to
Nathan Fillion first broke out as the captain on Joss Whedon’s short-lived but much beloved space/Western hybrid “Firefly.” Since then, both he and Whedon have gone on to mainstream successes – Fillion on TV’s “Castle,” and Whedon with “Marvel’s The Avengers” – but the old pals stayed close and have a new collaboration, the low-budget, black-and-white Shakespeare adaptation, “Much Ado
IGN: I’d once heard Clark Gregg describe Joss Whedon as a “contemporary pop mythologist.” Nathan Fillion: Oh that’s good, I like that. IGN: Isn’t that great? He really is that, and what’s interesting is that, in many ways, that’s what Shakespeare was in his day. There really are several similarities between the two men and the kind of work they do;
Your character in the film, Johnny Worthington, he’s the top Scare student at Monsters University and president of the most auspicious fraternity on campus…. Nathan Fillion: Yeah, I play Johnny Worthington, the president of the most popular fraternity on the Monsters University campus, Roar Omega Roar (R?R). Johnny comes from a long line of MU Scarers and respects the school’s
Actor Nathan Fillion (Castle, Firefly) is describing the spread at Joss Whedon’s legendary “Shakespeare brunches,” semi-regular LA affairs where Whedon convenes his friends—actors and non-actors, writers and directors—to eat and drink and read aloud their way through Shakespeare’s plays. “We would simply sip mimosas and have a lot of laughs,” Fillion recounted in a phone interview. “And Joss kept saying,
Nathan Fillion is enjoying the best of two worlds. He’s the engaging and sexy star of Castle, the hit ABC series about a crime novelist who helps the NYPD solve its toughest cases. And he’s a cult legend, thanks to his starring role in the 2002 TV series Firefly, which died a quick death but, thanks to fan pressure, was