{"id":25533,"date":"2014-05-07T00:01:37","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T05:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=25533"},"modified":"2014-11-16T10:13:44","modified_gmt":"2014-11-16T15:13:44","slug":"qotd-fireflys-kaylee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/05\/07\/qotd-fireflys-kaylee\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: <em>Firefly<\/em>&#8216;s Kaylee"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When I first auditioned for <em>Firefly<\/em>, I read the breakdown of the characters and the one that caught my eye was River. I read it and I thought, &#8220;Oh that sounds meaty, I like that.&#8221; There was a lot of crying and hysteria and every actor wants to do that. But then I read Kaylee, and they said, &#8220;Well actually Joss wants to see you for Kaylee,&#8221; and I thought &#8220;Oh,&#8221; because it said &#8220;chubby&#8221; on the breakdown, and I&#8217;m not chubby, and I didn&#8217;t know if they meant &#8216;Hollywood chubby&#8217; or what. So I put myself on tape and kind of forgot about it, and then a few weeks later I got the call and I flew down to meet Joss, and he told me flat out. He said, &#8220;You know I need this character to be full of life, and by full of life I mean she has to look like she enjoys life. She has to look like she eats a burger now and then, and drinks a few beers once in a while.&#8221; He didn&#8217;t want her to be a typical size zero actress, which I understand. I&#8217;m naturally this way. I was a little taken aback because I&#8217;m really into yoga, and I like to stay healthy. But I loved the role so much it wasn&#8217;t like I was going to say no. So I just stuffed my face for about three weeks, and got to eat lots of mayonnaise. I got to eat doughnuts every morning and I felt so sick because I was so full all the time, but I had to keep eating like that to keep the weight on. It was interesting. My husband loved it &mdash; guys apparently like a little weight on women! It was awesome. <\/p>\n<p>Jewel Staite, speaking onstage at the &#8220;Fusion&#8221; convention, 2004.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I first auditioned for Firefly, I read the breakdown of the characters and the one that caught my eye was River. I read it and I thought, &#8220;Oh that sounds meaty, I like that.&#8221; There was a lot of crying and hysteria and every actor wants to do that. But then I read Kaylee, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[57,28],"tags":[921,101],"class_list":["post-25533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humour","category-media","tag-firefly","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-6DP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28711,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25533\/revisions\/28711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}