Interview: Elijah Wood Talks ‘Wilfred’ and Going Back to New Zealand for ‘The Hobbit’ (video)

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Comic-Con 2012: Season two of FX’s Wilfred is underway and already this season, Wilfred (Jason Gann) has tormented Ryan (Elijah Wood) in some spectacular and hilarious ways. If you’re a fan of the show like I am, then you can’t wait to see what the rest of the season has in store for Wood, Gann and the rest of the cast.

I got a chance to talk with Elijah at Comic-Con and in this quick interview, he talks about the show, shooting scenes out-of-order and his time back in New Zealand filming The Hobbit.

Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX

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Interview: Jason Gann on Playing Wilfred and Giving Up Control and Going “Along For the Ride” (video)

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Comic-Con 2012: In season two of FX’s Wilfred, Jason Gann‘s man-in-a-dog-suit keeps ramping up the torment for neighbor, Ryan (Elijah Wood). And it’s never been better.

Gann originally created the show for Australian TV and it’s clear that the show and character are both special to him. But, when he found out FX wanted to make it for an American audience, he didn’t jump at the chance. He actually said “no.” He said that it didn’t make sense to just re-do the show with American accents. Luckily, Executive Producer David Zuckerman assured him that it wouldn’t be that way and if you’ve seen any bit of the Aussie version, you know they are very different shows.

In this Comic-Con interview, he talks about being self-conscious, how the whole series is an “adventure”and working with real cats and dogs on-set.

Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX

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Interview: Fiona Gubelmann on ‘Wilfred’ and the Darker Side of Jenna

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Comic-Con 2012: As any fan of FX’s hit show Wilfred knows, Ryan (Elijah Wood) has got it bad for his next door neighbor, Jenna. And as played by Fiona Gubelmann, why wouldn’t he?

When we first saw her, she was “bright and bubbly” but this season, we get to see her a bit different and Gubelmann is happy for the change, telling me at Comic-Con that that’s “what has been so much fun for me as an actor.”

In this interview, she chats about the darker side of Jenna, shooting scenes and episodes out of order and doing Guest Star roles on other shows.

Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX

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Interview: Dorian Brown talks ‘Wilfred’, the Challenges of Season Two and Working with Fake Babies

Comic-Con 2012: When Dorian Brown began filming season one of FX’s Wilfred, she was pregnant and in her words, “uncomfortable.” In season two, her character, Kristen, is now the pregnant one and as she told a group of us at Comic-Con, it “actually took me a lot longer to just get in Kristen because I feel good.”

Dorian talked to us about working with fake babies and if the show got any easier, acting wise, in season two.

Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX

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How does India change Kristen?

Dorian Brown:  India has changed Kristen enormously.  She comes back a completely different person.  She thinks she’s more – she thinks she’s changed for the better but realistically she left Ryan in Season One and his life was embarrassing to her and Kristen’s life was very put together.  She gets back from India and it’s been the complete opposite.  So that dynamic – she’s very competitive and he has this perfect life, and my life is falling apart from India. Read more

Interview: Director Randall Einhorn talks ‘Wilfred’ and His Theory on the Life or Death of Ryan (Elijah Wood)

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Comic-Con 2012: The man who created the look of FX’s hit show Wilfred, Randall Einhorn, is back in the Directors chair for all 13 episodes this season. 

Starring Elijah Wood and Jason Gann, the show is taking a darker turn this year and at this years Comic-Con, Einhorn said that it almost has to. “It’s got to get deeper otherwise you’re going to lose interest in it,” he told us.

In this interview, he talks about the look of the show, shooting on a $3000 camera and his theory on whether Ryan (Wood) is dead or alive.

Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX

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Interview: ‘Wilfred’ Executive Producer David Zuckerman on Envelope Pushing and the Eventual Ending of the Show

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Comic-Con 2012: David Zuckerman is the Executive Producer of one of my favorite shows, FX’s Wilfred. If you haven’t watched it yet – and if you haven’t, why not? – the show is about a guy named Ryan (Elijah Wood), who strikes up a friendship with Wilfred (Jason Gann), his neighbor’s canine pet. Everyone else sees Wilfred as just a dog, but Ryan sees a crude and surly, yet irrepressibly brave and honest Australian guy in a cheap dog suit. 

In this interview I did at Comic-Con, Zuckerman talks about Season 2, pushing the envelope and if he already knows how the show will end.

Wilfred airs at 10pm on Thursdays on FX

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Q&A: Elijah Wood Talks ‘Wilfred’, His Career and ‘The Hobbit’

FX’s Wilfred is back for it’s second season and if you are in love with this series like I am, then you’ll agree that it didn’t come fast enough. 

Elijah Wood plays Ryan, Wilfred’s (Jason Gann) friend and frequent victim on the show and in this Q & A, he chats about the show, keeping his career as diverse as he can and a little film you may have heard of, The Hobbit.

There’s a lot of great nuggets of info in here; he talks about the intricacies of working on a show, his career and more. Check it out!

Wilfred airs on Thursdays at 10pm on FX

Wilfred is manipulative and like the anti-Jiminy Cricket.  Why do you think that “Ryan” continues to stay with him despite all the schemes and all the lies?

Elijah Wood: The scheming and the lying, that’s a good question.  I think that as much as “Wilfred” cannot entirely be trusted I also think that almost entirely those sorts of schemes and those lies end up in “Ryan” learning something and “Ryan” continuing to grow and advance as a person despite the method for getting him there.  I think deep down “Ryan” has a sense that “Wilfred” does have his best interest at heart, even though his methods aren’t exactly to be trusted.  I think he’s aware of the fact that he’s on a path of self-discovery and a journey to bettering himself , and it’s his friend, it’s the person that knows him the best, it’s the person that understands him the best, again, despite the difficulties present in their relationship sometimes.  It’s the person that he can actually rely on and that can truly understand what makes “Ryan” who he is.  Read more

Interview: Wilfred’s Dorian Brown “I probably I wouldn’t have gotten the show if I weren’t pregnant”

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Dorian Brown got the audition for Wilfred the day she was scheduled to leave for Africa.

If you’ve ever planned a trip and had an audition right before you leave, I’ll bet you almost 90% of the time you’ll get it. It’s happened to me a couple of times and it happened to Dorian. “I was a lot looser,” she said.

Three weeks later, she came home, they called her in again and “it was meant to be.”

Wilfred is one of my favorite new shows and Dorian is great as Kristen, Ryan’s (Elijah Wood) sister. 

I talked to her at Comic-Con about the audition process, how she didn’t want her character to be a “one-note bitch” and more!

Wilfred airs on Thursdays on FX at 10pm.

For the full interview, click the audio link above or download it from iTunes.

How did the project first get presented to you?

Dorian Brown: I got the audition the day I was leaving for Africa which I think it led me to get so far into it because I was like, “Who cares about an audition. I’m going to Africa.”  So I was a lot looser but the script was so funny when I got it, I would walk into the other room and tell my husband the jokes. Like, I would read the lines and I was like, “listen, listen to this” and he was like, “that’s funny.  You should go out for that.” and I’m like, “Right, I know.”  So I went in and I got nervous because the ones that you love the most are the ones that you never get.

But then I was like “I’m going to Africa.  It’s fine.  I’ll forget about it” and luckily they were still looking for people three weeks later. So it worked out. Read more

Interview: Executive Producer David Zuckerman and Director Randall Einhorn talk ‘Wilfred’

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Wilfred‘s Executive Producer David Zuckerman and Director Randall Einhorn, the guys behind the look and feel of the show, were at this years Comic-Con where they were clearly happy about the success of the FX comedy.

David talked about the casting of Elijah Wood and Fiona Gubelmann and how not doing table reads leads to them “not second guessing” themselves.

Randall, a former director of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, discuses how he came on board the series and how he finds the beats in the scripts.

Oh, and if you didn’t know, David is Casting Director Dori Zuckerman‘s brother.

Wilfred airs on Thursdays on FX at 10pm.

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You guys don’t do table reads for the show. Do you think it helped as far as the show feeling very spontaneous, very real, and very kind of in the moment? Do you think that it helped because the show doesn’t seem too rehearsed?

David Zuckerman: Well, I don’t know.  I mean, there would have been time for rehearsal.  I think it helped in the sense that it didn’t allow for any second guessing. 

We did the scripts the way we thought they should work. And sometimes after a table read, you know, people will second guess.  We did table read for the first six episodes because we did them all in one day and they just went so extraordinarily well but then after that point, there just wasn’t time. And there was very little improvisation, I know that it kind of looks like there was. Everything was very tightly scripted and adhered to very closely because the scripts were written in such a way that a lot of plot points were interwoven, and if you pulled one thread it could have dire consequences down the line.  Read more

Interview: Wilfred’s Elijah Wood and Jason Gann

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At Comic-Con, I got another chance to talk to Wilfred’s Elijah Wood and Jason Gann. Speaking with them in person is no match for a phone call because these two were hilarious; especially Gann.

If you don’t know by now, Wilfred is a comedy about a depressed man who thinks his neighbor’s dog is an Australian guy in a dog-suit. Watch 2 episodes and you’ll be hooked, I promise!

This time around we talked how Jason got the original idea for Wilfred, his little black dog nose and Elijah answers questions about The Hobbit!

Wilfred airs on Thursdays on FX at 10pm.

For the full interview, click the audio link above or download it from iTunes

When you got the original idea, you were completely stoned, right?

Jason Gann: I was a little bit stoned.  The first 30 seconds of the short film, Wilfred, offered the guy a bong.  He said, “Want one of these?” and when we wrote the short, we verbatim wrote it the way the way we improvised it at first. So yeah, there was bong there when we wrote it.  So, yeah, I’m not saying I’m not saying pro-drugs.

Not at all.  Oh no. 

Jason Gann: People say, “Is it real pot?” It’s like, have you been on a professional set? I actually did a short film, my first short film that I made, I played this dude who was smoking weed and he was sleeping on a mattress in the garage of his parents, his mum’s place. And I had  set up this brick as his bedside table, and in this scene, I just like, fall down half asleep back on to on the pillow. And my mate was shooting, he said, “I didn’t believe ya.  I didn’t believe ya.  Let’s do it again.”  I got up and did it again.  He was like, “I didn’t believe it.”  I’m like, “are you serious?”  “I didn’t believe it. Do it again.” And I went head first in the brick and split my head open.  For the rest of the short film, I’m like concussed. So that’s what happens when you perform stoned. Read more

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