The Queen of Geek Culture (Felicia Day)
Felicia Day joins Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes for a wildly fun, funny, and surprisingly deep conversation about building a career by making your own lane, long before that was the norm. They talk about Firefly, The Guild, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Supernatural, The Librarians, Leverage…
Two moments from this episode
Sean Astin Directs The Extras
On The Librarians, Sean Astin played a lead magician with an audience and helpers, and he took it upon himself, in character, to direct all the people working for him. Jonathan says he could have objected that directing was his job, but instead he saw it as a gift and let Sean have that whole corner of the set. Felicia adds that Sean goes the distance and loves to analyze, almost method in the way he dives in.
“I thought, what a gift. He's got that whole part of the set.”
Same Ballet Company, Same Verse
Felicia and Summer Glau were both homeschooled and danced together in the San Antonio Concerto Ballet Company while Felicia's father was stationed at Lackland Air Force Base. Years later they bumped into each other at an audition, where Summer said she had just moved to Los Angeles to act, and they agreed to connect but never did. Then Felicia got Buffy and Summer got Firefly, putting them in the same circle anyway.
“But then I got Buffy and she got Firefly. So we were in the same verse.”
Names dropped in this episode
20 names come up in this episode, in the order they are mentioned. Tap a timestamp to jump straight to that moment.
Billy Wilder
0:00Austrian and American film director and screenwriter Wikipedia ↗
Felicia Day
2:07American actress, singer, writer, and web series creator Wikipedia ↗
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Peter Jackson
5:43New Zealand filmmaker, entrepreneur and visual effects pioneer Wikipedia ↗
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Rip Torn
13:06Elmore Rual "Rip" Torn Jr. was an American actor whose career spanned roughly 60 years Wikipedia ↗
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Pat Hingle
14:46American actor Wikipedia ↗
Kenneth Branagh
43:03British actor and filmmaker Wikipedia ↗
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Cynthia Nixon
45:02Actress who played Nancy Reagan opposite Matheson Wikipedia ↗
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Sigourney Weaver
46:35Susan Alexandra "Sigourney" Weaver is an American actress Wikipedia ↗
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Amy Berg
47:36American screenwriter and television showrunner Wikipedia ↗
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George Lucas
49:46American filmmaker, philanthropist, and entrepreneur Wikipedia ↗
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Noah Wyle
49:59American actor, television director, producer and writer Wikipedia ↗
Photo: Kevin Paul · CC BY 4.0
Michael Debakey
53:14American general and cardiovascular surgeon, scientist and medical educator who became Chairman of the… Wikipedia ↗
Hesiod
54:12Ancient Greek poet generally thought to have been active between 750 and 650 BC, around the same time… Wikipedia ↗
Photo: Yair Haklai · CC BY-SA 4.0
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