Q&A with Nathan Fillion
Excerpt from Verbatim #10:
“. . .I then went off with a lot of the same productions people to do White Noise 2 with Patrick Lussier. I auditioned with him for Dracula 2000 to play the villain. He was keen on me, but Universal went with Omar Epps instead, but he asked me if I would please come in and play a smaller role because he wanted me in it. He was very, very kind to me then and nearly a decade later, here we are working together again.”
White Noise 2 is due out next year. Is it a similar story to the first “electronic” ghost story?
“It’s a similar premise. The first film taught us about EVP. Michael Keaton becomes obsessed with communicating with his wired beyond the grave through television and distorting recordings. What happens in White Noise 2 is that, due to a tragic, tragic event, my wife and son are murdered in front of me. I get so depressed that I commit suicide. But I’m brought back after that near death experience. I’ve seen the white light, I’ve seen my family and then I’m pulled back. After that, I find I have the ability to, in a crowd of people, see who’s going to die. They glow white. I’ll see a trail towards people marked for death. Here’s this man who felt so helpless and foolish that he didn’t react sooner to save his wife and so here he is trying to redeem himself. Now he has this ability, but what do you do, what happens when you mess with the order of things? It’s a PG-13, so it’s not horrifying, but there are ghosts in there. Ghosts scare me, man. Right behind sharks on my list. Heights, too.”
- Source: Verbatim #10 www.theregoestheday.com
(Nathan Fillion appears in Verbatim 9 as well: “The Fillion Factor”)