From: daviderl31@yahoo.com   
      
   https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/10/felicia-day-chats-buffy-the-vampi   
   e-slayer-mentor-joss-whedon-and-forging-her-own-path-ahead-of-ne   
   -podcast-8509372/   
      
   Felicia Day chats Buffy The Vampire Slayer, mentor Joss Whedon, and forging   
   her own path ahead of new podcast   
      
   From starring in Buffy The Vampire Slayer to being one of the earliest web   
   video stars and pushing the boundaries of every medium she tries, Felicia   
   Day has never been one to play by the rules. Despite already being an   
   established actress as Vi in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, back in the good ‘ol   
   days of the noughties, way before YouTube took over the internet, she was   
   drawn to web video because of the creative control it afforded her.   
      
   ‘I was drawn to doing internet content because what I wanted to do had no   
   other outlet at the time,’ she explained to Metro.co.uk. ‘I was an actor   
   [but] I wasn’t really creatively fulfilled because I was always waiting for   
   the next job.’   
      
   Felicia was enthralled by ‘geek culture’ and gaming – and there wasn’t   
   really a place for that in Hollywood at the time.   
      
   Nevertheless, ‘I had faith in myself and I had friends who had faith in what   
   I wanted to say,’ she recalled.   
      
   ‘So in the very beginning of YouTube, we started filming my scripts and   
   putting them online and that really was the beginning of digital media in a   
   way.’   
      
   She fell in love with being ‘one click away from our community’ and, not   
   long after Felicia’s love affair with the internet began, she joined forces   
   with Joss Whedon, Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion to create the 2008   
   online sensation Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, a web video musical that saw   
   an aspiring super-villain try to win over his love interest.   
      
      
   ‘There are some things in your life that you do, and when you do them, you   
   know they’re going to last,’ Felicia reflected. ‘And I think Dr Horrible   
   is   
   just as relevant today as it was back then … Musicals, when you do them   
   right, can last forever.   
      
   ‘Having people like Joss Whedon and Neil Patrick Harris and Nathan Fillion   
   doing a web series when really it was just people picking up cameras in   
   their houses and making videos for the web … It was ground-breaking in a   
   sense,’ she marveled. ‘I think it really hinted at what would happen with   
   Hollywood essentially becoming all digital.’   
      
   While news of a sequel has been floating around the internet for some time,   
   the actress confessed: ‘I would love to live in that world again but it’s   
   not really my project.’   
      
   Nevertheless, she’s certainly not ruling it out, as she explained: ‘The   
   great thing is when you create a universe that’s that robust it’s simple to   
   go back and either reboot it or revisit it.’   
      
   And Dr Horrible was just the beginning of her love for pushing the   
   boundaries of every medium she’s involved in.   
      
   Even her new podcast, Voyage To The Stars, isn’t just a podcast – would you   
   expect anything different from Felicia?   
      
   The story follows a group of wayfaring misfits in space as they try to get   
   home to Earth, ‘essentially leaving a trail of destruction in their wake.’   
      
   However, even the cast can’t tell us much more than that as it’s all   
   improvised.   
      
   ‘We know the outline of where the story needs to go, but we don’t have any   
   dialogue, we improvise everything,’ she explained. ‘[It’s like] improv   
   comedy within the confines of story, which gives it more of a spontaneous   
   feel.’   
      
   Count us in.   
      
   While the internet can be fickle, fuelling fears about YouTubers and online   
   video stars losing relevancy, Felicia’s evolved with the times and is still   
   going strong years after she started out.   
      
   So what’s her secret?   
      
   ‘I think relevancy is relative, I’ve had bigger fan bases in the past,’   
   she   
   admits.   
   ‘Authenticity is really important on the web and really being true to who   
   you are and as you grow older you change and hopefully let go of who you   
   were and become a different person.’   
      
   She’s certainly not playing the numbers game like many out there: ‘No   
   matter   
   how big my fan base is, I will keep making things, as long as there’s a few   
   people out there!’   
      
   And she puts her love for pushing the boundaries and forging her own path   
   largely down to one man – Joss Whedon.   
      
   The pair have collaborated on a whole host of successful shows, including Dr   
   Horrible, Buffy, and Dollhouse, and Felicia’s hopeful their story together   
   will continue.   
      
   ‘I’m always inspired by him taking a left turn and doing something like Dr   
   Horrible at the same time as doing Marvel movies,’ she confessed.   
      
   ‘I was really blessed to be part of Buffy in the last year of the show. I   
   came into it not really understanding what the show was, but honestly it   
   changed the whole trajectory of my career and I’m really lucky that Joss   
   Whedon really likes what I do.   
      
   ‘He kept using me in different projects like Dr Horrible and Dollhouse, and   
   he also inspired me to be true to myself as an outsider, and that’s why I do   
   the things I do even today.   
      
   ‘Joss as a person, as a creator, as a mentor to me, told me to follow that   
   path, rather than trying to shove my way into a pre-made outline that would   
   make me more accepted or successful in Hollywood,’ she recalled.   
      
   ‘I love doing things outside of the box, I love being that square kid that   
   can’t fit in the round Hollywood hole.’   
      
   And, while she’s keeping tight-lipped about her upcoming projects, she   
   assured us she’s staying true to her love for ‘experimentation, trying   
   different things.’   
      
   Her plan is simple: ‘I’m forging a path that’s new and hopefully other   
   people will be inspired and tell their stories in the same way.’   
      
      
   David   
      
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