Close up with Dollhouse’s Harry Lennix
Dollhouse fans, we have an interesting interview for you. CraveOnline.com got a chance to interview Harry Lennix, who plays Boyd Langton on the show. A majority of fans relate most to Boyd, so it’s definitely interesting to see where Harry is coming from as an actor. Even though it’s obvious the interviewer has never seen Dollhouse, (which makes them look like morons,) there were a few interesting questions and answers. I’ve pasted a couple here, and as always, a link’s at the bottom:
Crave Online: How did this show come to you?
Harry Lennix: I was doing all 10 August Wilson plays at the Kennedy Center and the moment that I finished that job, I came back to L.A. and Dollhouse was all the talk of the town for television. I went in and auditioned. I think Joss (Whedon) was there, he had a cold. I came back for a callback and Eliza (Dushku) was there and Fran Kranz was there. Then the next thing I knew, it was between me and two or three other guys. And the next thing I knew they cast me.
Crave Online: Do you like working in the morally gray area?
Harry Lennix: Absolutely. I think that there is no drama without morally gray. There isn’t. No character, no play is worth doing where the person is okay with everything they do all the time. There always has to be a crisis that comes up, usually not vis a vis another character, but vis a vis the person’s own conscience. Yes, I love it. What takes priority in a given circumstance, your feelings, your professional obligation, another person’s well being? For me, these are the very substance of drama.
Crave Online: What is it like in the set of that Dollhouse?
Harry Lennix: When I go into it every time I’m actually filled with awe. It has a kind of reverential quality. It’s like walking into a cathedral. At the same time, the goings on in the Dollhouse are almost antithetical to what would happen in the church. In fact, it’s almost everything you couldn’t do in a church, but there’s still an ethic that underlies, I think, both Topher and Boyd, everybody who’s essentially not an Active. There is a kind of quest for what is ultimately human, what actually is it to grapple with these questions? When do you actually have free will? When do you actually get to make the decision of what is right and wrong, and are those ever objective, universal truths? So I think that, while it is not a church, the questions that are dealt with are equally humanistic and almost, to some extent, getting to what it is to be divine, what it is to live in a kind of alternate consciousness to our normal human selves.
For the full interview, log on to CraveOnline.com.
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