Castle gives Nathan Fillion his first second season since Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place. He actually had a season four on Desperate Housewives but that was his first on the show. Castle will pick up right where season one left off mystery novelist Richard Castle.
Nathan Fillion on Castle
“He’s obviously crossed the line with Kate Beckett,” Fillion said. “That’s Castle’s flaw is he doesn’t know when to stop. He doesn’t know when to shut up, he doesn’t know when to quit. It makes him tenacious and great and it also makes him insensitive and selfish and self-absorbed. You get into the area of people doing the right things for the wrong reasons. So we’ve got 13 episodes to look forward to so obviously there has to be some kind of a resolution there. We take care of that. I think it’s really interesting how they go about it. It’s a delicate thing.”
After the last batch of episodes, Fillion knows how to play the pseudo-romantic banter with costar Stana Katic. “It’s easy because it’s already there in the scripts but what I find interesting is coming to a collaboration, a rhythm of collaboration. How do you make this work? We know that this is the tone. How do we make it work? What if this meant this? What if this was actually about this other thing? Oh, you’re right. Then everything comes into play. It’s nice. Finding that rhythm is a process. It’s nice getting started in the second season when that process is already behind you and you can develop it and enhance it.”
It’s also nice to have another trademark character that Nathan Fillion can call his own. “I like going to work and being able to enjoy kind of a life that I don’t have in my own personal life. So with Captain Malcolm Reynolds, it’s riding horses, flying spaceships and shooting guns and living dangerously. With Castle, it’s more of a kind of ne’er do well, devil may care, wears his joy on his sleeve super smart alec, no fear. He’s got no fear. No fear of danger, no fear of life. I think the only thing that really scares him is when things hit close to home.”
Expect to get a few more hints at Castle’s serious side this year. “When things start to matter to Castle, and I think it confuses him when his daughter is concerned. That’s when he gets his bristles up and that’s when things stop being funny is when his daughter is involved.”
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