![]() ![]() ![]() The 10-minute comedy stars Tudyk as Wray Nerely, an actor whose career has stalled after the sci-fi show Spectrum was canceled. And people go, ‘God you know, somebody’s gonna write something about this.’ And I would be like, ‘I’ve got to get this thing made.’” “I wish I could say it was an original idea,” he says, “but when you go to a convention, it’s always full of artists sitting around the room. It was then that he first had the idea that would become his new web series with his Firefly co-star Nathan Fillion: Con Man, now made possible with a record $3.1 million in crowdfunding. “I was a theater actor, didn’t own a TV.”īut soon after Firefly was canceled at the end of its first season, he realized what a special place those conventions could be. “I didn’t even know who Joss Whedon was before I got the role,” he says amidst the chaos of the San Diego Comic Con, just before his panel in the 60,000-square foot Hall H where more than 6,000 people will hear him speak. He was a Broadway actor whose biggest onscreen film role was playing a gay German patient in a rehab center alongside Sandra Bullock in 28 Days. Before he was cast as Hoban “Wash” Washburne in Joss Whedon’s short-lived-but-beloved sci-fi series Firefly, Alan Tudyk was not the kind of guy that you’d find at a pop-culture convention. ![]()
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