Kevin Smith article about Eliza

Proserpina · 01-06-2001, 10:40 AM

Kevin Smith has a weekly column ast Psycomics (http://www.psycomic.com/columns/2000/ksmith/). In this one he talks about none other than our dear Eliza. (Good taste, hasn't he?) Anyway, thought that I should post it here, and notice the small mention of a girl-girl screen kiss...I guess we were all right about Soul Survivor, huh? I got this originally from the Faithful egroup, so...

Kevin Smith
Developing the Monkey

Saturday Night With Duck-Shoot

Eliza Dushku is that rare breed of cat that most men spend their whole lives searching for: a Guy's Girl, AKA: One of the Boys. She's East Coast as all hell, which is refreshing, as I've been in L.A. for almost a week and can use a healthy dose of reality.

A week in L.A. - that's all this column has been thus far. All eleven of these puppies span only seven days that happened over two months ago. It's fucking appalling that I'm getting paid for this drivel. And at the rate I'm telling the story, I'll probably spend the better
part of my semi-adult life relating the tale of 'Jay and Silent Bob.'

Then again, what else is new? That's all I've been doing for the last seven fucking years anyway.

*sigh*

So there's Eliza, ordering a beer and sitting in the outdoor bar of the Four Seasons Hotel with me and Mosier, waxing vulgar about Buffy, Ben (Affleck), and broads (she just kissed one in a movie she recently finished). Her voice has that kind of sexy, raspy quality guys don't
mind taking orders from - unless those guys are married - like me - and answer only to one master's voice, particularly when that voice is bellowing "Get off that goddamned internet and fuck me, Stupid!" Like right now.

Excuse me...

Three And A Half Minutes Later
My husbandly duties complete, I return to my story.

I christen Eliza 'Duck-Shoot', and we talk about her native country, Boston. She's friends with Casey Affleck, so she knows Ben - which enables us to swap Ben Affleck stories (my second favorite pastime to trading Jason Mewes stories). She tries to fill me in on Buffy lore and
how she plays into the mythos, and it only further solidifies my previously-stated assessment that Buffy is a show I should've been into early on, as it's now too intricately told a tale for a late-comer like me to catch up with.

Duck-Shoot's a funny, earthy chick - wise beyond her nineteen years. The fact that she is nineteen causes a bit of alarm, as I've just bought this minor the beer she's quaffing. I suddenly feel like the old man heading into the liquor store who's asked by the carload of teens to buy them
a case of Bud and some rolling papers. I insist that I will purchase for her no further brewskis. Twenty minutes later, she suckers Mosier into buying her another. (What can I say? Mosier's a sucker for the raspy voice.)

Right away I want to cast her, because she's funny, familiar, and very East Coast. This is a girl I would've hung out with in high school, back when I was getting dragged to keggers on Friday and Saturday nights. I can tell Mewes and Eliza are going to get along famously,
as they both collect friends with weird nicknames. Mewes numbers amongst his comrades a 'Neeny-Balls', a 'Stink-Weed', a 'Mustard', and a 'Tic-Tooth Ruth'. Eliza regales us with tales of her own home-town chums who sport equally bizarre monikers. The fact that she spends two hours bullshitting with me and Mosier in her Bostonian "Wicked-super"-speak only intensifies my desire to get
her into the flick.

When she can no longer tolerate the company of a pair of thirty year olds with nothing to do in Los Angeles on a Saturday night, she bids us adieu, leaving Mosier and me to get down to the nitty-gritty of figuring out whether or not we should shoot in L.A. or Austin...

Dorena B · 01-06-2001, 11:05 PM

kick ass article prossie. thanks for posting it. btw, how can i get on the faithful list? i can't believe i'm not on it.

5x5,
dorena

Risty007 · 01-07-2001, 01:35 AM

Awesome article! Thanks for posting it prossie. I am such a Kevin Smith fan. I love all his movies. It would be so kick ass if Eliza would be in one of his movies.

Emperor Penguin · 01-08-2001, 12:49 AM

Leave it to Kevin Smith to appreciate Eliza as much as he does. The man is nothing short of a genious and i love everything he's done. If she is able to do a movie of his it will be so kick ass!

BTW, this article brought up something for me: how exactly do you pronounce her last name? It dawned on me that i have never heard her last name pronounced, only written. Smith dubbed her "Duck-Shoot", so does that mean it's pronounced Dushku with a "duh" or is it (as i have been pronouncing it) Doo-shkoo. I'm sure you guiys will be able to help me out.

Thanks!

globedoc · 01-08-2001, 02:53 AM

I just produced a curdling war-like WHOOP and jumped so high I banged my head on the ceiling!
So she's from BOSTON!!! Right HERE!!! No wonder she's so cool! lol!
Opened the phone book and there are quite a few Dushku's in Boston. My cup runneth over.

I do want to ask you, Prosperina, how on Earth you get on that faithful list!
Thanks for posting that article!
Ron

Proserpina · 01-08-2001, 09:12 PM

The Faithful egroup is the mailing list of the Faith Rocks! webpage, http://faithrocks.tripod.com . There's info about the list here: http://faithrocks.tripod.com/faithful.html

I'm not allowed to subscribe to it because I'm a minor (too bad, cause they have one of the best Faith fic archives, and I'd love to get my stuff on there). But I can still read all the posts at http://www.escribe.com/tv/faithful

Leina Rose · 01-08-2001, 09:20 PM

Leave it up to a god like Kevin Smith to get one kick-ass sit-down chat with our goddess!

Dushku -- "dush" rhymes with "push" and "ku" is pronounced as "koo." The source for this pronunciation is from an interview, I can't remember where, but yeah, it's pronounced that way.

Dorena B · 01-24-2001, 05:05 AM

i just got this bit of news from the slayer pride message board. i hope it's true!!

Quote:

Eliza to be in new Kevin Smith Movie
from cinescape.com
Dushku Meets 'Jay & Bob'

Quote:

Word has it that Eliza Dushku (Buffy the Vampire Slayer) has joined or will join the cast of Kevin Smith's Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back. According to E! Online, Smith created the role of an aggressive jewel thief in the coming for the actress after Dushku's lengthy audition. Filming has started on the project on this last View Askew production.

i so cannot wait to see eliza running around in a cat burglar outfit. HOTT DAMN!!

5x5,
dorena

Emperor Penguin · 01-24-2001, 11:16 AM

Woo-Hoo!! This is amazing news! I would have been psyched simply at the prospect of another Kevin Smith/ Jay and Silent Bob flick, but Eliza is icing on the cake!

Emperor Penguin · 08-29-2002, 01:37 AM

BOOSTING

This was a great interview!

Alannah Rose Selene · 08-29-2002, 02:26 AM

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Originally posted by Proserpina
She's East Coast as all hell

Quote:

So there's Eliza, ordering a beer and sitting in the outdoor bar of the Four Seasons Hotel with me and Mosier, waxing vulgar about Buffy, Ben (Affleck), and broads (she just kissed one in a movie she recently finished).

those two statements are great! "Waxing vulgar about Buffy"...

Alannah

Emperor Penguin · 08-29-2002, 02:36 AM

How much do I idolize Kevin Smith?

blue girls · 08-29-2002, 02:53 AM

interesting reading. Thanks for boosting.