With the season premiere of The Hub’s Dan Vs. hitting this Saturday at 4 p.m. (see an exclusive clip here), Paget Brewster (one of television’s most consistently-badass leading ladies) is animated again as Elise, the long-suffering, secret agent girlfriend to the title character’s unemployed, scatterbrained and food-obsessed best friend.Brewster joined ComicBook.com earlier this week to talk about Dan Vs., and her experiences working with geek culture mainstays like Curtis Armstrong, Mark Hamill and James Gunn. You’ve done other voice acting in your career, but this show is full of people who basically just use their own voice. Is it a little different going in to a series that’s less heightened and exaggerated like that, at least from a performance standpoint?
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With Elise, was the plan always for you to be the superwoman? It occurred to me as I watched it that early in the first season, the spy stuff starts to get peppered in, but in the pilot there wasn’t anything like that.
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Well, and there’s this widely-circulated talk that he’ll be back in Star Wars, but he’s so prolific right now that it’s hard to imagine him not doing any other work during the time he’s shooting those movies back-to-back-to-back.
And it’s funny–you’ve also worked with James Gunn, who’s one of our favorite rumor mill topics these days, too.
Well, he’s doing Guardians of the Galaxy, which is the next new Marvel property to come out as a non-sequel following The Avengers.
We should set up a group of fans to lobby for you in Guardians–you could be a bad-ass female soldier in that movie and just roll in the Dan Vs., Criminal Minds stuff and do it again, except that you get to be green the whole time and beat up on Iron Man or somebody.
To me, I’d never heard of Dan Vs. until The Hub approached me to cover it. How does a cast this good come together on a show that’s so under-the-radar, and how do you guys try to raise awareness?
Yeah, I feel like it’s got the same anarchic, irreverent material that the Seth MacFarlane material does, but without skewing specifically to the college crowd. I wouldn’t let a kid watch Family Guy unsupervised, whereas Dan Vs. I might be more open to it.
Well, I’m a big Lenny Bruce fan.
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