Nathan Fillon: Vindication.

Gina Torres: Good for me. Yeah. It was déjà vu. I think we all have different stories about going onto the ship set.

Morena Baccarin: It's not a real ship? Wait a second…

Gina: It was the same, but different (the ship). Bigger in some places, smaller in others. It was definitely redemption.

Morena: It felt like we hadn't left. It sort of felt like coming into your living room and your mom has re-arranged all your furniture, but you're still home. We picked up right where we left off.

Nathan: It was good seeing the characters again. Seeing you guys in your outfits again, that was real good for me.

Question: Was there ever a point when you said I'm not going to be on the Serenity again?

Morena: The day that we were canceled!

Nathan: Joss had a plan of finding other homes. I said that sounds great, that's really wonderful, but it's really dead isn't it? I wasn't prepared to fall in love with “Firefly” the way I did, and I wasn't prepared for “Firefly” to dump me the way it did, I was really depressed.

Gina: Like a cold, crusty whore.

Nathan: To have that hope, and say maybe, maybe…

Morena: You don't want to get crushed again.

Nathan: I wouldn't want to set myself up for another depression and gain twenty pounds sitting in my house not going outside.

Gina: Not that that happened…

Question: What were the challenges of going from series to film, and how did you make it accessible to people who haven't seen “Firefly”?

Joss Whedon: Ultimately that's the hardest job. It's a question of opening it up and closing it down. Opening up in the sense that we need a giant epic story that is not the kind of thing these people usually get involved with in the TV series. You need a reason for this to be a movie, for this to be a big budget movie and a Universal film in particular, an action movie that has to work on a certain scale. At the same time that's the opening, the closing comes in making sure that it is accessible to everybody, that you explain everybody as much as you need to, that you explain the world as much as you need to. At the end you have an arc for the character as well as the plot, the question and then the answer. I've actually said the difference between TV and movies is that shows are a question and movies are an answer. In this we had to have a definitive statement about freedom and humanity and what we need and what we should be allowed to have as people, all our flaws. I answer that, I put a definitive period or hopefully an exclamation point on that as opposed to just pursuing the question for years which is a TV show.

Question: How much did you have to practice to get back into the characters?

Morena: Well, I had a lot of sex.

Gina: God bless you.

Morena: I had to say it. It's a whore thing, now it's done and over with.

Gina: By the time we got back the relationships were already established. It was just getting into those damn pants.

Question: Do you have a preference for “Firefly” in shows, movies, or comic books?

Joss: “Firefly” and Serenity are really two different animals, that's deliberate on my part if they weren't I'd be making a glorified television show and I'd be wasting Universal's money. The movies give you a chance to do something that is extraordinarily epic and realize whatever insane vision you might have, to turn a ballerina into a martial arts star (Summer Glau). Always a good thing to do with your free time!

TV gives you chance to explore things on a smaller level, which was very gratifying. I miss it; I miss “Firefly” because Serenity is not “Firefly”. The great thing was the show was deliberately small in the scope of the people within it and the movie is an epic filled with small people and that's the story I like to tell. When people who have no business being in an epic get caught up in one how do they react, do they fold or do they fight?

Question: Were the questions answered in Serenity? The ones that would have been answered in the series in five years, or did you change things around for the purposes of the movie?

Joss: Very little has changed for the movie. Some things were dropped, some were distilled to a fine two hour liqueur instead of a watered down longer version. Yes, that was where I was going. I had planned to get there in a couple of years instead of a couple of hours.

Question: Are you able to separate “Firefly” from Serenity?

Sean Maher: It stands on its own but it embodies everything the show had.

Jewel Staite: I think people will see the movie and then say “Oh, there was a show?” and then buy the box set!

Adam Baldwin: The show was our 15 episode workshop for the movie! ~ Laremy Legel