Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

With all the things Felicia Day is involved in these days, from The Guild to Doctor Horrible’s Sing Along Blog to House, we were fortunate enough to have a nice sit-down with the Writer/Producer/Actress on a busy Sunday morning in a Starbucks in Los Angeles. Here’s how the interview went down.

Whedonopolis: What, in your own words, can you say about the plot of Doctor Horrible without giving too much away of the plot?

Felicia Day: Well, it’s about kind of a low-rent supervillain who is in love with a girl and it turns into a love triangle with his arch nemesis...

W: (laughing)

FD: ...so that’s as loose as I can make it.

W: That sounds fantastic.

FD: It’s in a musical form, so it’s definitely unique thing that anybody will have ever seen because it’s a combination of five different genre’s in a forty-three minute package.

W: So that’s about the length of one full episode of television.

FD: Yeah, I guess I didn’t think about it that way, but you could air it as an hour of TV. That’d be cool. But let’s stay with the internet for now.

W: I know, just adding it up in my head. So how did you get the role?

FD: I was on the strike line, and I went out and struck because I’m a real protestor at heart. I like to protest things. So I went to Fox and saw Joss, and he actually had a Mutant Enemy day that he invited me to, and a lot of other Buffy and Angel Jossites. So we were walking and talking and protesting, he floated this idea, and he was like, "Yeah, I really wanna do this internet thing with a low-rent supervillain musical."

And I said, "What? That sounds bizarre," and then I said, "Well, just go do it, because I did it with my show, you know," And he had already been planning it, but he did say that watching The Guild and how I sort of just made it and put it out there was very inspiring to him in actually getting things made. One of many, many things, I’m sure, because he already had it in the works. So, like, three months later, he sends me an email out of the blue, "Can you sing? J." And I was like, "This is a very bizarre question, I said ’Yes...’"

W: (laughing)

FD: So that’s how I came on board, he just called me up and said come on board. And nobody says no to Joss.

W: Did you know you’d be working with Neil Patrick Harris or Nathan Fillion?

FD: I think he might’ve mentioned it when I called him finally on the phone. He said Nathan is doing it, and Neil is doing it. And I said "Whoa. Okay, Neil’s a great singer, are you sure that you want me to come sing for you?" And he said, "Nope, I know you can," because I sent him a link when I did One Springs and my mom trained me in all sorts of areas...

W: Is your mom a singer?

FD: No, she’s not a singer, but she wanted me to be a singer and good at lots of things.

W: Well that seems to have works out. So what was it like working with the two of them, with Nathan and Neil Patrick Harris?

FD: It was just amazing. It was really intimidating because these are guys that work all the time and they’re just consummate professionals. Especially Neil, he’s been acting since he’s a tiny kid, and he’s so good! He’s just, like, so professional. When we were at the screening the other day, I was watching the screen and I was like, "Wow, Neil doesn’t waste a moment on camera." There’s always like four layers of things going on when he’s acting, and it was really inspiring, and I feel like I learned a lot from him.

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