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
Nathan Fillion plays Johnny Worthington, one of the big men on campus in the new “Monsters University” film out on Friday. While the actor might have the “swagger” to pull off the role now, the “Castle” star admitted to George Pennacchio of KABC Television, OTRC.com’s parent company, he was hung out with a “nerdy” group in college. Fillion also talked
“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
TD: Did you have your own ideas going into production about how you’d adapt the roles? Nathan Fillion: It’s strange how easily it lends itself to modern day. CG: I knew it was the most accessible of Shakespeare’s work; the least verse. A fantastic love story [and] great comic characters. I remembered the poor geezer whose daughter is proposed 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
SPOILERS I take any scoop you have for Castle. — M.F. I give scoop for Castle! In speaking with TVLine about the season-ending proposal, Nathan Fillion said that while he has no idea what’s ahead (and truly, conspiracy theorists, it seems he doesn’t), he “absolutely” is looking forward to what Andrew W. Marlowe has teased is a “complicated” Season 6.