Who Should have Played Echo in Dollhouse and why?

ziedth

As any of us prob can agree that ED is the weak link in Dollhouse due to her limited acting range who would you have had play Echo instead?

My choices would be(I know there are reasons it couldn't happen but we can roll with it):

Summer Glau: For obvious reasons, Plus I think she could pull a Doll off much much better since thats basically what river was alot of the Time.

Sarah M. Gellar: I thought she did a better Faith then Faith in Buffy when they swaped bodies. Plus she was my first love as a boy!

Any thoughts?

Also Starring LeVar Burton

My suggestion would be anyone else, but people I'd really like to see take on the role would be;

Yvonne Strahovski - because I love her and she's a fantastic actress, but obviously she's on Chuck and couldn't be a lead in both shows.

Elisha Cuthbert - Jack Bauer's daughter. Need I say more?

Jamie Lynn Siegler - Tony Soprano's daughter. Again, need I say more?

Holly Valance - I think she could pull it off really well - she does seem to have the acting range.

I'd also agree with Summer Glau and Sarah Michelle Gellar - was just considering people who weren't already part of the Whedon Universe.

ziedth

god ya i could go for holly valance any day.

Tbf if i had my way i'd scrap the whole echo storyline cause even her whiney aminal saving caroline annoys me.

Is it too late to base it on viktor??

robby^5

ziedth wrote: »

Summer Glau: For obvious reasons, Plus I think she could pull a Doll off much much better since thats basically what river was alot of the Time.

She'd be no better than Eliza Dushku, I don't think she has the range to pull off new active week after week, she's suited to very specific roles which she's great in, like Dushku does bad-girl characters. They need someone with a lot of range, for me the only characters that have done this are Victor, Sierra and Alpha.

I'd still like to see her in the show, but not as the star, no way just as a cameo or small part, much smaller than victor or sierra even.

Richard Dower

I'd vote for Glau, but i can understand the concerns she might not have the range. BUT...from a PR perspective it would be a coup! and draw in alot of TSCC fans and general Glau fanboys.

I'd say give her a shot, make her new active Foxtrot!!...Wheadon could always kill her off if she sucks :-)

iguana

ziedth wrote: »

Sarah M. Gellar: I thought she did a better Faith then Faith in Buffy when they swaped bodies. Plus she was my first love as a boy!

I just watched the episode Intervention at the weekend and not only does she pull off the Buffybot convincingly. But in the final scene where Buffy approaches Spike as the Buffybot, she is very obviously Buffy slightly self-consciously pretending to be the Buffybot. It's the type of thing that you'd watch without ever thinking about the type of talent it takes to pull it off so well. If Eliza wasn't so terrible as a doll I wouldn't have noticed.

Of course SMG has her own new HBO show that she's currently filming and she's also expecting a baby, so I don't think she'd be up for anything with action involved.

ziedth

iguana wrote: »

I just watched the episode Intervention at the weekend and not only does she pull off the Buffybot convincingly. But in the final scene where Buffy approaches Spike as the Buffybot, she is very obviously Buffy slightly self-consciously pretending to be the Buffybot. It's the type of thing that you'd watch without ever thinking about the type of talent it takes to pull it off so well. If Eliza wasn't so terrible as a doll I wouldn't have noticed.

Of course SMG has her own new HBO show that she's currently filming and she's also expecting a baby, so I don't think she'd be up for anything with action involved.

God ya I even forgot that episode till you said it there. very good scene.

JP Liz

Genevieve Cortese or Taylor Cole

I would to see Summer Glau on the show as a another character not Echo

Richard Dower

JP Liz wrote: »

Genevieve Cortese or Taylor Cole

I would to see Summer Glau on the show as a another character not Echo

:eek: i'm stunned you know who those girls are!!
You and Wildfire or Summerland fan like me?

JP Liz

Richard Dower wrote: »

:eek: i'm stunned you know who those girls are!!
You and Wildfire or Summerland fan like me?

More Supernatural fangirl

lostexpectation

the thing wouldn't have got made without dushku

ziedth

lostexpectation wrote: »

the thing wouldn't have got made without dushku

Your prob right and I wouldn't want her cut from the show (eye candy aside) but I don't think she is a strong enough actress to pull off the lead. we constantly talk about Viktors range so someone who could have done that would have been best.

lostexpectation

the thing wouldn't have got made without dushku in the lead

Brian

You seem very sure of that without elaborating at all. Care to explain?

You mean this?

The Mad Hatter wrote: »

Dushku is named as producer. Means she funded the show. It wouldn't have been made without her.

Richard Dower

I can hardly contain my distain for Dushku!!

Handsome Bob

Dushku funded the show as producer? I would never have thought she had made enough money to be in that position. :pac:

ziedth

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Dushku funded the show as producer? I would never have thought she had made enough money to be in that position. :pac:

I was thinking thw same thing, does anyone have any idea how much she but in?

Richard Dower wrote: »

I can hardly contain my distain for Dushku!!

Tell me about it man, I've been watching the last season of Buffy on FX the last couple of weeks and she is actually awful in it too. I guess my teenage scrotum denied me from seeing it first time round.

Handsome Bob

Bah, say what ya want about Dushku in Dollhouse but leave the legend that is Faith alone! :eek: :pac:

ziedth

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Bah, say what ya want about Dushku in Dollhouse but leave the legend that is Faith alone! :eek: :pac:

TBF I liked her when she was the bad slayer way back in season 5 was it?

I just didn't buy it watching it the other day. Dunno, maybe i'm being oberly hard on her due to dollhouse.

katee sackhoff

DapperGent

From previous Joss stuff I would say Morena Baccarin would have been a great choice. She's considerably hotter than Dushku (imo) and can really act.

I dunno why Dushku was seen as being critical to the show being made, I wouldn't have seen her as having much pulling power or name recognition, maybe it's different in Americay. Really seems an awful casting choice for a character that's different each week, even her baseline character (Caroline) doesn't seem to suit her too well.

Sierra, Victor and Alpha by contrast are fantastic. Lots of Sierra next season pls.

ziedth

I personally am shocked how good Viktor is at character hanging. Every time he does i can't believe its him.

lostexpectation

http://thetvaddict.com/2009/02/06/exclusive-interview-10-questions-with-dollhouse-star-eliza-dushku/

for the last time it wouldn't have happened without her.

qwertplaywert

LZ5by5 wrote: »

Dushku funded the show as producer? I would never have thought she had made enough money to be in that position. :pac:

She didn't fund it. She had a development deal with Fox, meaning she was allowed produce a tv show for them. Then Whedon came in with the idea of Dollhouse.


Personally I don't think shes that bad an actress at all, she was superb at times as Faith[particulary in the season 1 Angel episodes] but tbh she just doesn't have the range for a challanging role such as Echo, where basically your playing a different character every week.

I think Amy Acker would have been an interesting choice, considering how she handled the switch from playing Fred in Angel, to playing the very different Illyria.

Richard Dower

Amy Acker would have been a better choice, Dushku lost her "hottie" factor a few years back, but Victor is a great actor....so is DeWitt.

yeah i second, or third, Amy Acker as a good solid choice.
all the actors are good in it, but dushku isnt the best... she's not bad in it tho. she doesnt render the show unwatchable but she might have been better in a more secondary role.

JP Liz

Rhona Mitra

qwertplaywert

Richard Dower wrote: »

Victor is a great actor....

Agreed, he is far too underused on the show.

iguana

qwertplaywert wrote: »

Agreed, he is far too underused on the show.

He's underused because his brilliance shows up Dushku's weaknesses.

Mireille Enos, who plays Kathy and JoDean on Big Love would have made a great doll. She plays twins on that and she plays them both so differently you'd think they had really cast twins. What's especially amazing is that the twins are similar women, yet she gives each woman subtle differences that make them unique.

lostexpectation

theyre not twins!!!!
just watched series 3! of big love