Actor Nathan Fillion was very close to Joss Whedon, who helped give him his big break with Firefly . Even though the sci-fi show didn’t last long, Fillion and Whedon would work together on a few other projects over the years. But one Whedon project was initially a nightmare for Fillion.
Nathan Fillion had a hard time filming this Joss Whedon movie The 2013 feature Much Ado About Nothing differed greatly from Whedon’s and Fillion’s usual collaborations . Much Ado was based on the Shakespeare play of the same name, with Fillion playing the character Dogberry. The movie was a bit of a passion project for Whedon, who was genuinely interested in the original story.
“I love Much Ado, ” Whedon once told Collider . “It’s hilarious, and it’s accessible, but it’s also very dark. And it has a lot to say about love, not all of it good, and how we behave.
It poses a lot of interesting questions. It doesn’t resolve all of them, even though it has a happy ending. It’s this open debate about the way we behave and the way we’re expected to.
It’s fascinating to me.” But Fillion didn’t share Whedon’s enthusiasm for his adaptation. So much so that it might’ve been the only Whedon film that he didn’t want to do.
“I tried to chicken out,” Fillion once admitted to Parade . “Reading Shakespeare is one thing; performing it is another. Joss Whedon talked me down, and I’m so glad he did.
” However, even after getting the role, it took Fillion a while to adju.