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Cult-TV-show creator turned big-shot movie director Joss Whedon on athiesm, strong women and the hottest vampire on record_  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 19, 2014 2:34 PM UTC  Ada County Sheriff's Office  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Oct 19, 2014 2:34 PM UTC _Buffy the Vampire Slayer’_s Nicholas Brendon [showed signs of intoxication when he was arrested](http://police.cityofboise.org/home/news-releases/2014/10/los-angeles-man-arrested-after-hotel-disturbance/) in Boise, Idaho on Friday following a hotel disturbance, police announced. The actor, best known for his role as Xander Harris on the Joss Whedon TV show that ran from 1997 to 2003, was charged with resisting or obstructing officers and malicious injury to property while in town to attend Tree City Comic Con, [CNN reports.](http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/19/showbiz/nicholas-brendon-buffy-arrest/) Brendon had damaged a decorative dish, according to the staff at hotel, who said they wanted to press charges. “When officers arrived, they found the suspect who showed signs of intoxication and repeatedly refused officers commands to stay seated while officers tried to speak with witnesses,” the police statement said about the actor, who has entered rehab before for alcohol dependence. “When the suspect continued to try and walk away, officers took him into custody for resisting and obstructing.” On Saturday a Twitter account associated with the actor said [Brendon was “doing well”](https://twitter.com/NicholasBrendon/status/523637603980312576) and thanked fans for their “love, support and positive vibes.” ## Transcript >> Joss Whedon is a writer, director, musician, producer and figure of almost cult- like admiration. He's probably best known for Buffy the Vampire Slayer and the Avengers Movie and he's got a new project which is a natural outgrowth of those two Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing. Mr. Whedon is here with us today, welcome! >> Thanks for having me. >> I will bring Senior Benedict and Lady Beatrice into a mountain of affection. >> You're known actually mostly as a writer, why take on Shakespeare where you don't actually have control of the material? >> Well, I don't know many writers who don't revere his works. I grew up listening to them, reading them, seeing them and you a, you know, it's been a passion of mine for a long time. My friends go over at the house to read the plays, and, you know, it's exciting to be able to have my time, my turn at interpreting his work. >> As I recall, you shot this in your own home like only contractually on the break you were contractually obliged to have after shooting the event. >> Actually, I've shot it my own home on the break that I fought to the nail to get from the Avengers which was officially one week. All I needed to do was get back to the roots of creativity and reconnect with the central passion of what's first attracted us to this business. >> You're kind of known for your strong female characters. But there's news of creating tension there because often the females in your creations, they meet really ugly end. Is there is a disconnect there? >> When you're known for creating strong female character, people would like to put that in a box and say that's what you're gonna do. What I'd like to do is create human characters. I've killed off characters male and female, willy- nilly I have a good reputation for it, one that I'm kind of quite tired of to be truthful. But the fact of the matter is if I'm not putting people through the paces, if I'm not giving them real pain and real loss and real hardship and sometimes real tragedy, then I'm not a storyteller. >> You are the son of a TV writer and I think the grandson of a TV writer. So were family get- togethers, were they like, okay, I'm not sure you quite found the comic sweet spot yet for that Joe. I mean was there a lot of discussion of the better? >> No. You know, it really wasn't. What it really was, was my dad and his comedy writer friends all milling about to all hours just being incredibly funny and me, just hanging out with them waiting for the day that you know, I would make them laugh. And you know, every time you did, you score a little hit you're just, yeah! That's right. I'm in the drive. >> Buffy the Vampire Slayer was kind of seminal and that it was kind of big before vampires were big, and it was kind of big before. We've had such strong female action heroes. Do you think it fit into that or were you sensing in the [ unk ]. >> I had a need to see a girl fight monsters and not die. I had a need to see somebody's high school journey written large. Vampires are a wonderful metaphor. Because the other you know, the sort of monstrous isolated creature but that we all can relate to especially when we're in high school, but they happen to be the most beautiful, sexy, perfect usually sort of vaguely wealthy and well- dressed virgin. It's not, you were not up there with the hunchbacks ringing the bells, you know, we're not in the-- >> Zombie. >> Exactly. Phantom of the Opera. It's like, no, vampires are you know, Frank Langella. >> That's who does it for you Frank Langella. >> I'm sorry, honestly, Frank Langella's Dracula is still the hottest vampire on record. >> Why has the culture do you think become interested in superheroes for so long? It seems like it hasn't gone away even though it used to be considered kind of a small boy thing. >> Well, those small boys grew up and you know, and they had other small boys that they showed their comics to, and all of them buy things or are running studios or are filmmakers. You know, for a long time, people sort of poked at the edges of comic books but they either didn't have the money, they didn't have the technology, or they didn't have the understanding of what it was that we're trying to adapt. I think that really changed with Sam Raimi's Spider- Man which was the first movie that absolutely got the essence of the book and turned it into a film. >> Will it like, other things, reach its end? Are we close to that? >> It felt to me when I saw the Dark Knight that, you know, it was like sort of we got past it. You know, it's sort of like, okay, we understand the superhero movies now I'm going to make Godfather with superheroes and sort of, the post superhero era and I was like; Whoa! Wait a minute, I still wanna see the hero part. You know, I feel like the great superhero movies are yet to be made and so it's not deconstructing completely just yet. >> When I asked our readers to, you know, what they would ask, what are the interesting things that kept coming up is your atheism, and I wondered if the fact that you do not believe in the supernatural makes you more able to imagine these universes because you're working with a blank canvass. >> Since I don't have a fantastical belief in my life, it is nice to create a world where there could be one. So I think it helps fuel my level of science fiction fantasy. But I wouldn't say that it makes me particularly qualified to do it. >> I have questions from readers. Wilson Vega asks in retrospect, is Fox cancelling Firefly the best thing that ever happened to your career? >> No. >> No. >> No. It's a terrible thing. It hurts like a wound every single day. >> But it did free you up to do other things? It did-- >> No. No. No. Boo! >> Boo. Okay. So you've done Shakespeare, you've done horror, you've done superheroes. Is there is a genre that you, are you dying to do a rom- com and I know some of the work crosses over but-- >> Yeah. I mean, you know, I just did a rom- com and I did in fact the rom- com but-- >> Do you consider that the rom- com any more than >> I do. I think-- >> Taming of the Shrew or-- >> I think that it's much more. I think much to do is really the, you know, the granddaddy of all modern romantic comedy. You know, I would love to do a straight up period drama, you know, some empire dresses and you know, some sorts and manners and stuff like that. >> British actors. >> Probably British. 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