Nathan Fillion, star of ABC’s Castle, has a way of popping up in unexpected places, from Saving Private Ryan (as the wrong Ryan) to Buffy the Vampire Slayer (as a defrocked priest and serial killer), King of the Hill (as a Frisbee guy), Lost (as Kate’s ex-husband), Desperate Housewives (as Katherine Mayfair’s ex-husband) and a Marine sergeant in Xbox 360’s

To hear Nathan Fillion  tell it, when Joss Whedon  recruited him to play Dogberry  in an adaptation of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,”  Fillion was expecting a much more … modest production. It was a reasonable expectation. After all, the plan was to shoot the movie digitally over 12 days at Whedon’s house, while Whedon was on a two-week break

Nathan Fillion was Captain Tightpants on Firefly and Serenity. He’s the debonair crime novelist Richard Castle on Castle. He was Captain Hammer on Dr. Horrible. And now the Canadian actor is Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing. Fillion was persuaded by Firefly director Joss Whedon to take on the role of the bumbling watchman in Whedon’s modern-dress film version of

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A Canadian can leave Canada but sometimes the national tendency to engage in self- doubt hangs in there. Take Nathan Fillion, for instance. The Castle TV star was born and raised in Edmonton and attended the University of Alberta before heading to L. A. for an actor’s life. Forging ahead in Hollywood, he managed to earn cult status playing Captain