Despite new film, TV show renewal, the Hub is No. 1 in Dushku’s heart

Eliza Dushku wastes no time when she gets a chance to return to Boston.

On a recent weeklong trip, she filmed her part in the movie “Valediction,” went to a Red Sox [team stats] game, spent time with friends and made the rounds to see all her relatives. On the day of this interview, she was in the car driving to visit her uncle before heading back to Los Angeles.

“I love this city,” she said. “I will be back and living in Boston at some point.”

Dushku described “Valediction,” which also stars Ben Barnes, Brenda Fricker and Sarah Roemer, as a contemporary psychological thriller.

“First and foremost, it is just a beautiful script,” she said. “It centers around this young couple in a horrible car crash with their 6-year-old daughter. I sort of play the other woman.” The film is due in theaters next year.

On July 22, Dushku returns to the set of “Dollhouse” to begin shooting the second season of the Fox drama. Dushku is delighted the show, from executive producer Joss Whedon, was renewed. She was returning from a trip to Uganda when she got the word.

“When I landed in Boston, I turned on my phone. The first message that popped up was from Joss and it said, ‘We’re back, kid.’ It was really kind of sweet to touch down and get the news.”

“Dollhouse” struggled in its Friday night time slot but did well in DVR and online viewing.

“It’s alive because of the fans and because people found the show. This show is back because it’s a new era. It’s not just a Nielsen world any more. We really feel like the show was starting to find itself. If we hadn’t gone back, it would have been such a mean little tease. We found our rhythm, and we know what worked, we know what didn’t work and now we get to really get dirty.”

Her company, Boston Diva Productions, is about to begin production on “Mapplethorpe,” a movie about the famous photographer that will star her brother, actor Nate Dushku. Director Ondi Timoner (“We Live in Public”) is attached to the project.

“We have the support of the Mapplethorpe estate first and foremost, which is just unbelievably valuable, and we really want to do this right,” Dushku said. “This has been in our life for eight years now. We’re about four weeks away from starting to bring in cast members. We’re definitely on the fast track.”

Dushku spent some of her time off from “Dollhouse” traveling to Uganda on a socioeconomic tour with the group Global Exchange. While there, she saw firsthand the plight of former child soldiers.

“It’s just remarkable, especially after living in Hollywood land,” she said.

She and boyfriend Rick Fox are putting together a video of their time there that they hope to post soon on MySpace [website].

“We want to give people a better understanding of what we were doing there,” she said. “I don’t think people realize how much they can contribute.”

Eliza just post on her official Twitter that she and dollhouse co-star Dichen Lachman will be on the cover of Octobers Self Magazine.

SELF magazine-workout-photoshoot tomorrow w/ my fellow DOLL Dichen Lachman for October issue… Zexy.

FRIDAY, JULY 24:
4 P.M-6 P.M. Join Dollhouse creator Joss Whedon and star/producer Eliza Dushku for a no-holds-barred Q & A about what they have planned for season 2, after they unveil a special screening of the NEVER BEFORE SEEN “Epitaph One” episode of the Fox hit which releases on DVD just four days later. Ballroom 20

Eliza attended the We Live in Public screening at the 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival on monday night with the with director Ondi Timoner. I have added into the gallery a mix of HQ/MQ photos from the event. On top of that the same night Eliza was at the SAGIndie And WGA Party that she co-hosted and one MQ photo has bin added in from that.

GALLERY LINKS:
- 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival - “We Live In Public” Screening
- 2009 Los Angeles Film Festival - SAGIndie And WGA Party

I have added in 003 new Behind The Scenes candids from Eliza’s new film Valediction.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Valediction Behind The Scenes Candids

‘There will be a Dollhouse photoshoot on Tuesday or Wednesday for season two.’
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With Joss Whedon fans ready to throw their arms up in anger over the expected cancellation of Fox’s “Dollhouse,” it was a more than a pleasant surprise when Fox announced last month that the show would be renewed for a second season.

Before the cult hit returns (filming begins next month!), fans can get their fill of the dolls at San Diego’s Comic-Con. The unaired 13th episode from season one, titled “Epitaph One,” will remain off FOX broadcasting channels, but fans will be lucky enough to see the episode — and Whedon and star Eliza Dushku — during a two-hour panel.

In a recent interview with MTV, Dushku said the episode, which is a flash-forward to an post-apocalyptic “different world of where the Dollhouse can and would evolve to,” will still have some continuity to seasons one and two.

“It’s still relevant and there are still pertinent points and pieces that people will be able to just sort of add to the backstory and a fast-forward story,” the actress says. “The Dollhouse is deep.”
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Hollywood Crush/MTV got to talk to Eliza about her new film Valediction.

“It’s about this young couple and they have a 6-year-old daughter, seemingly in a coma, but [they learn] she’s actually alive and fully living out in her brain, but is just in this locked-in state,” Eliza explains. “So he’s trying to have his daughter wake up from this traumatic experience.”
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One new photoshoot has bin added into the gallery, these are photos that were from the InStyle Magazine.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Photoshoot Session #28

DOLLHOUSE will have a presence at this year’s COMIC-CON in San Diego as series creator/writer/director and executive producer Joss Whedon and star/producer Eliza Dushku will appear at a special 2-hour DOLLHOUSE session on Friday, July 24 (exact time TBC) where audience members will have the first opportunity to watch an exclusive screening of “Epitaph One” (which will be included on the Dollhouse Season One DVD released) and then open the floor for a Q & A about their thoughts on the series’ freshman year and what they have planned for the upcoming season two.
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