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Eliza Dushku finds her Tru Calling by saving the world, one person at a time By Kathie Huddleston Taken From Science Fiction Actress Eliza Dushku made a big splash in the Buffy universe by playing bad-girl-turned-good-Slayer Faith. Now she'll star in her own series about a young woman who can hear a dead person's pleas for help and relive a day to save them. Tru Calling premieres on Fox Thursday, Oct. 30, at 8 p.m. Dushku's claim to fame may be her recurring role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel, but she also has a solid background in film. She began her film career with That Night, and has gone on to star in Bring It On, Soul Survivor, True Lies and City by the Sea with Robert De Niro. Her most recent film was Wrong Turn, which came out last spring. Dushku chatted with Science Fiction Weekly about playing a young woman who talks to dead people, saying goodbye to Buffy and getting domestic. [read more] Site Update Updated Certified Fan Section. Congrats to beckster. Likewise updated Win An Award link." And finally, I just wanna greet Faith--- one of my friends in KINDRED Board, a very happy birthday, advance though. Let's Party!!! October 22, 2003 The Suspect I didn't know that City By the Sea was graph with a new Movie Title when it would be released in other house soil- or should I direct the Philippines for that matter. Okay, last Saturday, I went to the movie house with my friend, Dush. We were checking the movie listing and skimmed over , "The Suspect." Hmmm.. pretty interesting. Not to waste much energy to see what the movie was, we looked for the poster. Read--- Robert De Niro, Eliza Dushku... Oh.My.Gosh!!! It's CBTS! My golly, it was our lucky night!!! Answering her 'Calling' By Richard Huff DAILY NEWS TV EDITOR Star feels dead-on for 'Tru' She hears dead people: Eliza Dushku in 'Tru Calling' Face it, working in a morgue could be creepy for some. Not Eliza Dushku. Dushku's character in the new Fox drama "Tru Calling" lands a gig on the midnight shift at the city morgue, where she hears a murder victim asking for help. Dushku, it seems, was around corpses at a very early age - long before she was around network suits. "My best friend in elementary school, her father owned a funeral home in Watertown (Mass.), the MacDonald Funeral Home, and we were these kind of crazy, high-energy 7-, 8-, 9-, 10-year-olds," Dushku said. "Every day after school we would go there because her grandmother lived upstairs." Never would she have dreamed that a decade later she would be starring in a series in which dead people - and soon-to-be dead people - make up a key component. "Bernadette MacDonald, she introduced me to my first morguish experience," Dushku said. The twist in the show is that after hearing the cry for help from the dead folks, Dushku's character, Tru, wakes up 12 hours earlier. Knowing what's ahead, she sets out to prevent tragedies. "Tru Calling," which launches Oct. 30 at 8 p.m., is Dushku's first outing as a lead in a prime-time series. But she's no stranger to television viewers or moviegoers. Dushku played Faith on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and "Angel," and has appeared in the big-screen films "Bring it On" and "City By the Sea." Dushku said she immediately identified with the young woman at the heart of "Tru Calling." "It was kind of surprising, yet comforting," Dushku said. "I felt if I get the opportunity, and they want to get this to me, we do have so many similarities." After Fox scheduled the show, the cast and crew went back to reshoot parts of the pilot. The original got generally weak buzz from critics who saw it, and even Dushku agrees the new version is better. "In the pilot, you don't know if you're picked up yet - you're trying to give as many story lines as possible," she said. "There was too much going on in the first one. I think it lost some of the initial direction. The second one was much more clear and concise." Being the lead means Dushku is also carrying a heavier load than she had in the past. "In other shows, I used to get to hang out with the Teamsters and kick back," she said. She also wouldn't mind getting a shot at a guest part on "Angel," either. She said she loves the world that series creator Joss Whedon has made and never wants to be out of it. But for now, of course, she's got to worry about hearing dead people. Site Update I have updated the Certified Fan section. Congrats to Elisa, Amber and Mickey for taking the madness. Another thing, for those who applied for the award, it will be coming before the end of the week. I have reviewed your sites already and all are amazing. October 13, 2003 More Pix It seems like the regulars are back and the KINDRED Board is in force again. Very good. LOL! With that, I will leave my appreciation to Annie once again for posting the most updated pix of our dear Dushku.[View It Here] October 8, 2003 Hard Days Hi Guys! I've been out of the loop lately. So, how's everyone? Cool? I hope so.=) I couldn't think of anything to ramble so I better start my bulletin. Oh before that though, just wanna say Hi to the frequent taggers--- Dush, Storm, Fyro, Sheila and Faith. And Usamah, welcome back!!! SFX (UK)-October Issue Thanks to Faith of KINDRED Message Board for the information. [Message Board] Tru- Reshoots. Great news if you're an ailing aspidistra; not so good if you're an aspiring TV show. Tru (once known as the awful Tru Calling) is going through gestiration problems and its Autumn US debut has been postponed to recast key roles, even though a number of episodes had already been filmed. It'll be great to see Eliza Dushku (heck its always great to see Eliza) front her own show - but maybe the much-anticipated Faith spin-off from Buffy would have been better than this mongrel offspring of Seven Days and Early Edition. We'd love to be proved wrong. More Pix Thanks Annie [always] for the links posted on the board. Check « Reply #196 on: Oct 5th, 2003, 1:36pm ». [Go Here] Site Update Certified Fans section has been updated. Added one new affiliate as well. See LINK Section. |