Trivia / Firefly E01 "Serenity"

• Enforced Method Acting: Mal and Jayne throw a body out the ship's airlock and rush back inside as the door closes with a fraction of an inch to spare. This isn't just feigned: Nathan Fillion and Adam Baldwin had no idea that Joss Whedon started closing the doors the moment they went out, to simulate how fast these characters had to act in their escape from the world.
• The Other Marty: The scene where Inara boards Serenity and is introduced to the passengers was initially filmed with Inara's original actress Rebecca Gayheart in the role, however Joss Whedon already felt that Gayheart wasn't right in the role (due to a lack of energy with the other actors). Having already decided to replace her, Whedon then shot the scene entirely as single-shots only focusing on a single character, therefore when Morena Baccarin was cast it was simply a case of filming her lines rather than reshooting the entire sequence.

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