Things are a little quiet around Paget Brewster Online at the moment, that is not to say our dedication to Paget has moved or waivered, we’re just waiting for news on Spy. In the mean time, I have added photographs from the 1998 Blade premiere to the gallery.

Hopefully whilst things are quiet a few more batches of photographs can be added.

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As we all know, Paget has been cast in a pilot for ABC called Spy. We at Paget Brewster Online thought that it would be great if we could show Paget that her fans are 100% behind her. We’re rooting for the show (and her) and can’t wait to have her back on our screens!

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Paget Brewster is returning to comedy.

The former Criminal Minds actress has been tapped to star in ABC’s adaptation of Spy, The Hollywood Reporter has learned.

Based on the British series of the same name, the single-camera comedy revolves around Tim (Warm Bodies’ Rob Corddry), the well-intentioned father of a highly intelligent and verbal son named Marcus (Mockingbird Lane’s Mason Cook), who also happens to be his complete opposite. Tim inadvertently takes a job at the secret service in order to prove himself a worthy father.

Brewster will play Erica Elliot, Tim’s ex-wife and Marcus’ mother. Contrasting with Tim’s warmth, Erica is described as a cold and neurotic person who has long been in therapy. Marcus has inherited her precision and dissatisfaction. Erica’s prescription-drug addiction has left Tim with full custody of their son.

The half-hour, single-camera comedy will be written by Simeon Goulden, creator of the Sky1 series on which the ABC effort is based. The British series, now in its second season, has been distributed stateside on Hulu. Jimmy Mulville and Helen Williams are on board to executive produce alongside Goulden, who will pen the pilot for ABC Studios and Hat Trick Productions.

In addition to playing Emily Prentiss for more than 110 episodes of Criminal Minds, Brewster most recently had an arc on NBC’s Law & Order: SVU. She has also lent her voice to multiple roles on Fox’s American Dad and has hadroles in Huff and Andy Richter Controls the Universe, as well as an arc on Friends. Repped by UTA, Burstein and McKuin Frankel, she next guest-stars on ABC’s Modern Family.

We finally have some new Paget news – isn’t it awesome?

When Benjamin Bratt returns to Modern Family later this season as Manny’s biological father, he won’t be alone.

Ex-Criminal Minds leading lady Paget Brewster has been cast as Javier’s new girlfriend, TVLine has learned exclusively.

Brewster’s character, Trish, possesses upper class sophistication and book smarts. (Cue the fireworks with Javier’s ex, Gloria in 3, 2, 1…)

This is Brewster’s second major TV stint since wrapping her six-year Criminal Minds run last year; in September, she guest-starred on Law & Order: SVU as the head of the District Attorney’s Office’s Public Integrity Unit.

I cannot wait!

With the season premiere of The Hub’s Dan Vs. hitting this Saturday at 4 p.m. (see an exclusive clip here), Paget Brewster (one of television’s most consistently-badass leading ladies) is animated again as Elise, the long-suffering, secret agent girlfriend to the title character’s unemployed, scatterbrained and food-obsessed best friend.

Brewster joined ComicBook.com earlier this week to talk about Dan Vs., and her experiences working with geek culture mainstays like Curtis Armstrong, Mark Hamill and James Gunn.

You’ve done other voice acting in your career, but this show is full of people who basically just use their own voice. Is it a little different going in to a series that’s less heightened and exaggerated like that, at least from a performance standpoint?
Honestly, what I’ve mostly done at American Dad! is anytime they’ve had a character with an accent. I’ve played the Russian fortune teller on Dan Vs., but I would say other than specific charactrs here and there I mostly do voice work that is pretty close to my voice, so it’s just acting. Birdgirl on Harvey Birdman is similar to Elise in that I’m not altering my voice that much–it’s not like I’m playing a kid or an old lady. I’m not going to say that I have a ton of range, because there are other people who are a lot better at that.The really fun thing is that Curtis Armstrong is in no way like Dan in any way in real life. He’s just a sweet, kind, lovely guy, and when he plays Dan, he goes bananas. He’s vicious and angry and he’s yelling, and it’s nuts. When he gets into character in the room when the three of us are recording, he gets all amped up like Dan and when he blows a line, he’ll shoot a look–at usually me, sometimes Dave–like he wants to murder us. As though we made him blow his line, and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. And actually, just now I’m realizing that voice-wise, Dave Foley can’t do anything but Dave Foley.

You know, that’s what made me want to ask you this question–after the roundtable, I spoke to Dave about that.
Dave doesn’t try! I think they asked him once to do some other voice and Dave just started riffing about how this is all they’re going to get–that he can’t sound like an old, Russian fisherman, that he’s just not going to pull it off. What they get is Dave Foley–and he’s right. I love that the man knows his limitations–and he’s so good with just his voice that he doesn’t need to do anything else. Curtis has done a lot of stuff, and I guess I’m probably in the middle of range. Dave is at the zero range, then I’m at a three or four and then Curtis I would put at a seven or eight.

With Elise, was the plan always for you to be the superwoman? It occurred to me as I watched it that early in the first season, the spy stuff starts to get peppered in, but in the pilot there wasn’t anything like that.
You know what? You’re right, that wasn’t in the pilot. I don’t know! I never asked the real Dan and the real Chris. I know that the real Elise–Chris’s wife in real life–has got a PhD, she’s a rocket scientist or something–it’s something really crazy. He’s this big, tall, funny, kind of shy guy who writes animated comedy with kind of a boyish humor to it, kind of like a big twelve-year-old, and his wife is an actual, certified genius. So I don’t know when they decided to make her a secret agent, who can kind of fix anything and make anything, but you’re right, it wasn’t in the pilot.

And you said that you do the reads with the principal cast–but you’ve obviously got more than just three people in the episode and I assume that most times you don’t have most of those people in the room with you. Is it kind of surreal to be talking to a responsive person for one line and then turning around and talking to air for the next?
It is really difficult to get everyone in the room–I haven’t done that in maybe eight or nine years. The fact that Dave and Curtis and I have been able to record together so much is kind of unusual. There have been times where Curtis was shooting a movie in Louisiana, or Dave was touring doing stand-up in Canada and we couldn’t all be together. It is really unusual to have everyone together. I have recorded with Michael Gross and Meredith Baxter as my mom and dad, which is great. They’re very funny–they act like they’re actually married in real life. They’ve known each other for so long, since Family Ties, and now they’re playing Elise’s parents and they’re great to work with. And I recorded once with Mark Hamill, which is a trip–becuase that guy is such a pro, it’s scary. So good, and so gifted. That guy is a voice-over genius, he’s amazing. He’s really a force–when you’re recording with him, he’s just telling stories right up until the record light goes on and then, boom! He’s in character, doing it.

Well, and there’s this widely-circulated talk that he’ll be back in Star Wars, but he’s so prolific right now that it’s hard to imagine him not doing any other work during the time he’s shooting those movies back-to-back-to-back.
Hmm. You know what, I wonder–because their shooting schedule would probably be what, ten months? You can’t blame him for wanting to do it, though!

And it’s funny–you’ve also worked with James Gunn, who’s one of our favorite rumor mill topics these days, too.
Why, what’s the rumor?

Well, he’s doing Guardians of the Galaxy, which is the next new Marvel property to come out as a non-sequel following The Avengers.
Oh my God, that’s insane.

We should set up a group of fans to lobby for you in Guardians–you could be a bad-ass female soldier in that movie and just roll in the Dan Vs., Criminal Minds stuff and do it again, except that you get to be green the whole time and beat up on Iron Man or somebody.
[Laughter] Well, I’ll have to e-mail James!

To me, I’d never heard of Dan Vs. until The Hub approached me to cover it. How does a cast this good come together on a show that’s so under-the-radar, and how do you guys try to raise awareness?
I think that people are hearing about it more and more and people are more aware of the show this year. Sometimes it just takes time to build, especially on a brand-new network. The Hub was an entirely new network and anything new takes time to find its footing but I think the exciting thing is we live in a time when you can go back and get season one and season two. If you fall for it in season three, you can see the other stuff that we’ve done and the stuff that we’ve done is really strong. I’m hoping more people find it the way you did, and this year is the year that it gets even more viewers. I think it’s a great show, and I think it can be enjoyed by many different ages. I don’t know if a lot of shows are like that.

Yeah, I feel like it’s got the same anarchic, irreverent material that the Seth MacFarlane material does, but without skewing specifically to the college crowd. I wouldn’t let a kid watch Family Guy unsupervised, whereas Dan Vs. I might be more open to it.
That springs from the mind of Dan and Chris–I think they’re a little bent and anarchic is the perfect word to use for what they’re doing without going blue–no, nobody uses that term anymore.

Well, I’m a big Lenny Bruce fan.
Who’s great. Yeah–blue! You would let a ten-year-old watch Dan Vs. Sometimes it’s a little violent but it’s not bloody, icky–there’s no drugs or sex. And Seth [Green] is the guest star in the second episode of Dan Vs. that’s about to air, “[Dan Vs.] The Mummy.” I didn’t get to work with him, though.

 

Former “Criminal Minds” star, Paget Brewster, is voicing the character of Elise in the animated TV show “Dan Vs” on “The Hub.” New episodes are on Saturdays 1 p.m. PT/4 p.m. ET.

Terra: Hi Paget, it’s so nice to talk to you.
Paget: Thanks

Terra: Tell me a bit about Elise and Chris.
Paget: Elise is Chris’s wife. Dan goes off on”revenge” missions. Chris goes along with Dan’s missions. Chris’s wife Elise (me) is actually a spy, she works for the government.

Terra: A spy!
Paget: Yes, Dan always gets the group in trouble. Elise is kept busy with her spying so it’s a lot of action. Between Dan and Chris, there’s a lot of high jinks. Elise and Chris come together to overcome obstacles, they really love each other.

Terra:  This is the third season of “Dan Vs,” what has made this show a hit?
Paget: The creators/writers, Dan Mendel and Chris Pearson. Very talented guys.

Terra: How is animation voice over different from live action TV?
Paget: Elise is similar to myself, it just requires you to go for it. It’s really the most specific, purist kind of acting. In doing voice over, you can’t raise your eyebrows. You have to emote.

Terra: Do you get to see you work right after it’s done?
Paget: We see it when much later, after the animation is done.

Terra: Are you a fan of animated films?
Paget: I don’t go to the movies, I watch at home. I just saw “The Lion King.”

Terra: I don’t think I’ve seen the whole film.
Paget: You have to, it’s so good!

I want to thank Paget for taking her time to talk with me. She’s an amazing woman. We did discuss an off topic subject. She and I are both “The Walking Dead” fans. A great conversation all the way around.

Paget Brewster has been acting steadily since the mid 90′s, but the name might not immediately conjure a face (unless you watched “Andy Richter Saves the Universe, which you should have, but I suppose that’s another article for another day). She has played such iconic characters as Lana Lang and Birdgirl . . . from the recording booth. Ms. Brewster began her voice over career in the late 90′s on an amazing cartoon called “Godzilla: The Series,” and credits that as the experience that helped further her talent in voice over. “I’m glad that was my first animation experience, because if I had to go in a room alone, which is what you have to do a lot of the time… I don’t think I would have enjoyed it or learned as much as fast as I did being in a room with really outstanding, talented voice over people, so that was a great experience to start that way.” Up until recently, I always thought of a voice over actor doing his/her job in a large booth, likely standing next to a cardboard cutout of their character. Brewster says that ”when we recorded (Godzilla), there were nine or ten of us in the room recording the whole cartoon, and I’ve only seen that, I mean, I think I did “King of the Hill” and there were four of us in the room, but as far as the whole cast, I haven’t seen that since Godzilla.” Also in that room? Let’s put it this way: if you were playing a game of “I Never” with Paget Brewster and said “I’ve never been in the same room as Ian Ziering, Tom Kenny, and Joe Pantaliano,” she would have to drink.

Currently Brewster performs on HUB TV’s “Dan Vs.,” a more grown-up show than a lot of the programming, but still appropriate for all ages. The show is about a man who thinks the whole world is against him (played by Curtis Armstrong). Dan is assisted in his score settling by his laid back friend Chris (Dave Foley), and Chris’s wife Elise (Brewster) often plays along – sometimes with her own motives. She happens to be a secret spy with mad Kung Fu moves. The three stars record together as much as possible, but as is typical with a lot of voice over actors, schedule conflicts can occasionally cause a cross country recording session. It’s a small inconvenience, but “too bad, because the more of you there are in the room the more fun it is!”

I asked Ms. Brewster if her time was split equally between live action and voice over. “Well, I think because live action takes so much longer it certainly looks like it on my resume, which makes me happy.” She reports that her commitment to the medium has grown so much that she recently purchased a “fancy mic.” “My boyfriend is a composer and musician and we built a recording studio in the house, and I bought this fancy mic and I’m hoping to do more animation and voice over work so we’ll see how it works.” For our audiophile readers, I regretfully admit that I did not ask the brand. Though never explicitly stated, Brewster’s love of this medium is evident. When asked to describe her different preparations for live action versus voice over work, she said ”

They’re obviously very, very different mediums. you know when you’re doing live action you’re in hair and make up for an hour and a half, you have wardrobe fittings, you have to be aware of where the lights are, and your mark, and do a stunt, and when you’re doing voice work – every single thing you’re doing has to be in your voice. It’s a completely specific form of acting and it’s a very pure form of acting because you’re not worrying about ‘how do I look, where am I standing,’ when you’re doing animation we don’t see the animated version of our self until the show is done, so I’m not controlling my face, or my facial expression, all I can do is the voice and they animate from that. It’s exciting because it’s very… If you’re in the room and you’re doing a scene with running, you’re in the recording studio in Burbank running in front of a microphone and it’s very high energy and specific. It’s nice to do that kind of acting, because it’s just pure acting. You’re not relying on anything else.”

Aside from the aforementioned Fancy Mic, Brewster has no special rituals or tendencies to prepare her voice. Prompted by legends of performers requiring a certain room temperature or performing questionable rituals to maintain their instrument, I asked if she had any new self maintenance habits. ”No, I think if I started worrying about the sound of my voice, then I wouldn’t be just doing the story and feeling what I’m feeling and if I was overly concerned with how it sounded. With your voice it’s more important that you be present and game, and just keep trying or go bigger or follow direction.” She voice a reminder for all performers, in that “if I have to scream a lot, I do ask that we do that at the end of the session. And most people do.” The only person she knows that can scream for two or three hours straight? The man most folks in my age demographic remember as the groddy sidekick, or perhaps Ms. DePesto’s boyfriend: “Curtis. Curtis never yells in real life. Curtis is so sweet, and kind, and gentle, he just gets it all out playing Dan. He’s a crazy man! I don’t know how he doesn’t blow his voice out. It’s extraordinary.” Childhood illusion shattered. In a good way.

Talking with Paget Brewster is a delight. She genuinely enjoys her job, talks easily and unpretentiously and is very, very funny. I asked if she had ever done any video game acting, and she hasn’t but implied that if she were asked would do so “in a hot minute.” We got the giggles about procedural cop-show video games (“they make these video games out of cop shows, like Lenny Brisco?”), snickered over hypothetical gargling substances, and she provided wonderful insight into the world of voice over acting. Did I mention she’s been a photographer for Suicide Girls? Yeah. Whole package. For sure.

Paget is featured on yet another podcast!!!! You can listen to it here

Although she may not be on television (at the moment!) it is really great just how much Paget is doing!

The Thrilling Adventure Hour Kickstart is going really well. We have already passed their first target. They have even said if they can get raise $200,000 there is a chance they could bring the show to the UK – so all of you UK fans – keep pledging!

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Paget is featured on the latest The Pod F. Tompkast.

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