casting news, dollhouse, sixth sense, surrogates, ving rhames

Meet The Woman Who Pulls Joss Whedon's Puppet Strings

Joss Whedon's new show Dollhouse, about an amnesiac puppet (Eliza Dushku) who can be programmed to be anyone and have any skills, got another castmember today. Olivia Williams, who was Bruce Willis' wife in The Sixth Sense, will play Adelle, who runs the Dollhouse and ruthlessly crushes anyone who gets in her way. (But she's secretly lonely.) In a separate piece of casting news, Ving Rhames has joined the cast of Willis' new movie Surrogates, which we covered earlier today. Rhames will play the leader of a cult that believes people shouldn't only interact using robotic avatars, but should meet up in meatspace. Image by Wenn. [TV Guide, Moviehole]

5:00 PM on Fri Apr 4 2008
By Charlie Jane Anders
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Tim Faulkner at 05:07 PM on 04/04/08
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While Rushmore is the truly notable credit, you could have gone with The Postman for yet another post mentioning post-apocalyptic dystopias!
aspiringexpatriate at 05:10 PM on 04/04/08
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Olivia Williams was also awesome in To Kill A King, a British film about Cromwell and his nobleman co-revolutionary. And she played Moira McTaggart in that Ratner film that shall not be named.
nevin at 05:14 PM on 04/04/08
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She was also in Spaced for about 5 seconds.
kromekoran at 05:50 PM on 04/04/08
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I bet if Ed had written this she would have been credited for her Postman role.

just saying.
tollwaytroll at 07:17 PM on 04/04/08
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Loved her in Rushmore. A fine film indeed.
Ed Grabianowski at 09:30 PM on 04/04/08
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@kromekoran: As soon as I saw her name there, I immediately thought, "Ah, my Postman-loving acolytes will be howling about this. Muhahahahahaha."
Plague at 09:49 AM on 04/05/08
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She's yum.
(Rushmore. Not Postman)
twomonkeysayoyo at 10:16 AM on 04/05/08
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I read that as "Played Bruce Willis' wife in The Fifth Element" and all I could think was "oh, I hate that bitch! Wait..."
lever2k at 12:48 AM on 04/06/08
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Ah yes, Rushmore. Very yum.
daneofwar at 01:39 AM on 04/06/08
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I've got some ideas for programming Eliza Dushku, if you know what I mean.
DCI Gene Hunt at 08:52 AM on 04/07/08
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Wait a minute here... I'm detecting some mockery aimed at "The Postman", as if it was something other than the noblest, most awesomest, sweetest, Kevin Costner sci-fi movie ever?
ExistentialEgg at 09:53 AM on 04/07/08
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@DCI Gene Hunt: That movie passed out hope like it was candy.