A lovely interview with Amy that took place in hometown Dallas when Amy attended the USA Film Festival for the Much Ado About Nothing screening on April 26.

Thanks to Carole Smith of the GaylerSmith Company, we were able to sneak into the tail end of Amy Acker‘s brief visit to the great city of Dallas. Having just seen her new film, a Joss Whedon adaption of Much Ado About Nothing, words could not capture our excitement. Of course, plenty of the questions the actress had to field revolved around Whedon, but she admires him just as much as the rest of us, especially for his work on the Shakespearean screenplay:

“He adds a lot of subtext and a lot of comedy through the subtext that really sort of makes everything… the fact that everyone has drinks in their hand pretty much from the time that credits are rolling; you start to understand how everyone is confused and seeing things that aren’t really happening.”

Acker later added that it was a thrill to be involved with the project, saying “I can’t imagine having another experience like this, unless Joss decides to make another movie like this.” The film itself was quite an accomplishment, wrapping up principal photography in just twelve days and somehow remaining relatively well-hidden from the public eye. Using his own home as a set and working with a minuscule budget, Whedon somehow managed to squeeze out a fantastic film before The Avengers was even finished. According to Acker, it was the passion of the cast and the fun of the script that made the project such a success.

“Everybody there just really admired and liked each other,” Acker said, “it was a perfect environment to do something that it didn’t really matter what happened with it.” No one knew what would become of Much Ado About Nothing, and no one seemed to really care. The tight-knit group of actors, many of whom had worked together or met at conventions because of their director, had so much fun with production that they trekked from LA to Austin’s SXSW film festival together on a tour bus (an experience affectionately dubbed “Bus Ado About Nothing,” but one in which Acker couldn’t participate because she had already purchased airline tickets. “It was all the people without children,” she joked).

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