Eliza Dushku

Scores of Joss Whedon fans were disappointed to hear that his latest show, ’Dollhouse’ has been canceled by Fox. We’ll get to see the remaining episodes, and they had the news in time to wrap up the story, but that’s cold comfort for most of us. We caught up with star Eliza Dushku on the red carpet for the US Weekly Hot Hollywood event, where she was being honored as "Cult Fave of the Year". While she dashed our hopes of ’Dollhouse’ continuing in comic book form, she said she’d like to be part of the upcoming ’Dr. Horrible’s Sing-along Blog’ sequel, and that her Robert Mapplethorpe biopic (which she has been working on for eight years) is finally getting made.

So I’m one of the ’Dollhouse’ fans who are really upset about the cancelation announcement. Is there any chance at all that you guys would consider moving it to another network?

"I don’t know. I mean, I’m going to say I don’t think so. I feel like we’re probably going to wrap it up for people at the end of this second season. We had time to sort of see where we wanted to close things off, but...I think this is going to be it. We’re really proud of it. And I feel like two seasons to live on is better than the one would have been. And we’re grateful for that, that we got to come back and play some more and bring some more to the fans."

I had asked you a year or so ago if you’d want to do the ’Dr. Horrible’ sequel when Joss Whedon does that. And you said yes. Is that still something you’d be interested in?

"Absolutely! If Joss calls me after this. [laughs] But no, really I would love to, and Jed (Whedon) and Maurissa (Tancharoen) are so talented and so much fun. And if we all... if it comes about, I would love to audition. [laughs]"

So will Echo (Dushku’s character on ’Dollhouse’) be living on in comic form like Faith (her character in ’Buffy the Vampire Slayer’) is?

"I don’t know. I think I heard Joss once say that he didn’t think ’Dollhouse’ would sort of go into the comic world successfully, but you never know."

And what do you have coming up next?

"We’re working on this Robert Mapplethorpe biopic that I’m producing with my brother and some other really phenomenal people, film makers. It’s really moving along. And then we have some other Boston Diva productions that will be announced in 2010."