While we love it when beloved stars get cast in new shows, we’re just excited when we discover new favorites. This past year we’ve gotten some wonderful surprises thanks to the actors and personalities that were never regulars on a TV series before, but are now big stars – at least in our minds. In fact, we really can’t believe that until 2009 we didn’t even know that the majority of these people even existed. How did we survive?
3. Enver Gjokaj (Dollhouse)
Dollhouse has had its ups and downs this year, but the best thing to come out of this short-lived series is that we learned the name Enver Gjokaj (well, we learned to spell it, anyway). If you didn’t see the episode where this living doll pretended to be a party girl or the one where he did a dead-on impression of the often annoying Topher, go watch them now. Seriously, fast-forward to his scenes if you have to. You’ll thank us for it.
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I updated the gallery yesterday with screencaps of Enver’s fantastic performance in episode 2.09 Stop-Loss. It was quite neat to finally find out who Victor, or should I say Anthony, really is, wasn’t it?
Screencaps of episode 2.10 will be added within the next few days as well.
Dollhouse only has five more episodes until it’s wiped, but the action will be non-stop, promises Enver Gjokaj (pronounced joke eye), who plays Victor, the male half of the Victor/Sierra romance. Gjokai gave TV Guide Magazine a preview of tonight’s double feature and offers up some hints about the final three shows (airing January 8, 15 and 22) and whether Echo and her pals can stop the really bad future that was shown in the seen-only-on-DVD episode “Epitaph One.†Brace yourself for MAJOR SPOILERS.
In this week’s Victor-centric episode, will we learn who the Dollhouse boy toy really is?
Yes, but it’s not a flashback. Adele [Olivia Williams] basically gets her heart broken on one of her dates with him. Even though he’s imprinted as her lover, he breaks up with her and say he’s in love with another person—though he doesn’t quite realize it’s Sierra [Dichen Lachman]. Adele gets into a really dark place and even though his contract isn’t quite up, she kicks him out of the Dollhouse. It turns out his real name is Anthony and the deal with him was that they’d take away his post-traumatic stress syndrome if he joined the Dollhouse.
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Screencaps of Enver’s performance in episode 2.08 were added to the gallery yesterday morning. Enjoy!
Screencaps of Enver’s brief appearances in episode 2.07 are now available in the gallery. Screencaps from episode 2.08 will be added later tonight.
Screencaps of Enver’s amazingly brilliant performance in episode 2.06 of Dollhouse are now available in the gallery. My apologies for the delay.
I’ve just updated the gallery with some new Season 2 promos and stills from episodes 2.04 and 2.08.
I’ll be adding screencaps from last week’s episode later this evening and follow up later in the weekend with screencaps from tonight’s episodes.
It may be hard to figure out how to pronounce Enver Gjokaj from seeing the name in print – for the record, the first name rhymes with “then there†and the surname rhymes with “joke eye†– but it’s easy to recognize the actor’s talent and versatility on Joss Whedon’s Fox series DOLLHOUSE.
As the “Active†Victor, California native Gjokaj plays a man whose mind has been wiped by the staff of the Dollhouse so that he can be “imprinted†with any personality to suit the wealthy clients who pay for his services on assignments – and sometimes he winds up accidentally programmed with personalities that were unintended.
Please visit ifmagazine.com to read the full article.
Enver what now? The actor (whose name is pronounced En-vair Jo-kai) is one of the ensemble cast of the recently cancelled (but still airing) FOX sci-fi show, Dollhouse. I’ve been a vocal supporter of the show, which apparently leads to series cancellation–see Terminator: the Sarah Connor Chronicles–sort of a “Greenlee’s Law” if you will. The star of Dollhouse is Eliza Dushku, who also appeared in Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel (all produced by genre great, Joss Whedon). But Dollhouse grew into a true ensemble piece, with uniformly good actors regularly outshining Dushku.
Don’t get me wrong. I’m not on the Dushku-bashing band wagon so many other viewers are perched upon. Love her, seriously. But up against the acting of co-stars Olivia Williams, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Dichen Lachman, Alexis Denisof, Tamoh Pinekett, Harry Lennix and especially Enver Gjokaj, Dushku was bound to find herself a bit dwarfed. The premise of the show–if you don’t already know–is that a shady business called “Dollhouse” takes wayward souls, wipes their memories (consensually, mostly), and reprograms them for use as, well, just about anything. Mostly as fantasy fulfillment for the rich, but also for more useful purposes.
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