Morena Baccarin on the Release of “Serenity: I’m excited. I’m really looking forward to seeing how people are going to receive it. I’m very proud of it and hopefully it will be a good thing.” Morena Baccarin on the Change in Tone from “Firefly” to “Serenity:” “It’s a little darker and, as Nathan [Fillion] likes to say, a little sweatier. A lot more action going on, some more humor, but

We got enough Serenity coverge coming to choke that universe’s version of a Gundark, which I guess is just a pig since there are no aliens in Joss Whedon’s futuristic world. There are great characters played by fine actors, though. At the Serenity press junket in Los Angeles last week we had three mini press conferences – one was with Nathan Fillion, who plays Captain Mal Reynolds, Gina Torres, who

Morena Baccarin plays Inara, Serenity’s ambassador and the ship’s most respectable resident: a bona fide Companion (read: hooker). How did you come to be cast as Inara? I’ve been acting professionally for five years and before that I was at school, acting, for nine. You know, it’s funny how people say everything happens for a reason or about the right time and place because that’s exactly what it was. I

Morena Baccarin on How Her Character Changes from “Firefly” to “Serenity:” “She’s still Inara; she’s still the character that Joss [Whedon] wrote. But the entire crew is like in a completely different situation. The stories are totally new and there’s definitely been a shift in who Inara is. She’s been going through a lot. It doesn’t really go back in time. It just sort of picks up where the series

Rebecca Moscowitz, a struggling young actor, stands onstage, reciting a carefully memorized monologue. As she goes through her audition, voices talk over her, evaluating her suitability for the part. After a few lines, she is interrupted: “Excuse me, Miss, how tall are you?” About 5-foot-8, she responds, puzzled. “Really? Hmmm. Okay, all right, thank you.” As Rebecca slinks offstage, one of the unseen auditioners mutters, “She just looks too damn