An interview with Nathan Fillion appears in the April edition of the Southwest Airlines “Spirit” Magazine.

Halo 3: ODST lets people experience events leading up to the epic story told in Halo 3 through the eyes of an Orbital Drop Shock Trooper, as they search for clues leading to the whereabouts of their scattered squad and the motivations behind the Covenant’s invasion of New Mombasa. We had a chance to chat with Nathan Fillion, the actor who voiced Gunnery Sergeant Edward Buck.

WP: How did you get involved with the Halo series of games? You had a small part in a prior Microsoft project, Jade Empire, before you started working with them on Halo 3. For Halo 3: ODST, you obviously had a much more expanded role, but how did you first get involved in the gaming scene?

NF: Well, Jade Empire and Halo were completely unrelated. I got involved with Jade Empire through some friends of mine in Canada, as a matter of fact. Then I was simply public about loving Halo, how we were on Halo 2 at the time, playing LAN parties at friends’ houses. One of the Bungie guys — it was Marty O’Donnell who got a hold of me. He does the music and has composed the music for all the Halo games. He read it in an article somewhere and gave me a ring through my manager to see if I’d be interested, and I said, “Not only would I be interested, but I have a couple of buddies who were on Firefly” — they were fans of Firefly — “who would be pleased to join us as well.” That’s how Adam (Baldwin) and Alan (Tudyk) got involved. (more…)

Nathan Fillion has been promoting his new show Castle which airs on ABC starting this Monday at 10/9c.

Nathan on The View

Nathan on Good Morning America

Nathan on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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