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Originally posted by Cybersnark:
I especially liked the other guy not even registering the "pirate" thing.

There'd damn well better be some kinda pirate (or even I, Robot) reference in Serenity. Have Wash wear a bandana, or say Arrr, or something.

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We applied the cortical electrodes but were unable to get a neural reaction from either patient.

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the nerdy guy (that didn't know there was a pirate on the team) had a t-shirt on that said, "I love (heart) robots", but they shot the scene first with only I Robot showing

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Among the hapless team members victimized by Patches' coaching is one Steve the Pirate, a self-styled buccaneer whose answer to life's challenges is a growled "Aaargggh!" "I thought it would be funny to have a character who walks, talks and thinks of himself as a pirate, and nobody even blinks at it," says Thurber. The director was surprised when the character became a comedy "litmus test" for people reading the script. "I discovered that if you 'got' Steve the Pirate, then I knew you really 'got' the whole movie," he says.

Steve the Pirate, like most of the DODGEBALL: A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY characters, is outrageous, but in casting the role, the filmmakers were looking for anything but an over-the-top reading. "A lot of people we auditioned did a kind of Long John Silver-on-amphetamines," says Thurber. "But Steve the Pirate was never about somebody pretending to be a pirate. It's not Halloween, and he's not doing schtick." To that end, the filmmakers cast Juilliard-trained actor Alan Tudyk as Steve. "The character has little dialogue, maybe 10 lines, but Alan makes him memorable," says Thurber. "He's always doing something, always keeping the character of Steve the Pirate alive in every scene, even if he has nothing to say. That's no small task."

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ALAN TUDYK (Steve the Pirate) has had leading stage roles in off-beat productions as well as scene-stealing supporting turns in film. In 2002, he starred as Wash in Fox's "Firefly," a science fiction-western fantasy set in space. He reprises the role in a new feature film, "Serenity," based on the series.

On the big screen, Tudyk starred as the soft-spoken and kind voice of Sonny in "I, Robot" in addition to providing several of the voices in the animated feature film "Ice Age." He recently completed the independent feature film "Ralph's Club." Tudyk's other film roles include Sir William's squire, Wat, in "A Knight's Tale" opposite Heath Ledger; the cocaine-addicted German stripper Gerhardt in "28 Days," opposite Sandra Bullock; and Monte Man in "Hearts in Atlantis," opposite Anthony Hopkins. His additional feature credits include "Wonder Boys" with Michael Douglas, "Patch Adams" starring Robin Williams, and "35 Miles to Normal."

After attending the Juilliard School, Tudyk appeared in several regional and off-Broadway productions before making his Broadway debut in Jerry Zak's play "Epic Proportions" with Kristin Chenoweth. Other stage work includes "The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told," "Oedipus Rex," "Misalliance," "Much Ado About Nothing," "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and "Bunny Bunny," for which he received both the Clarence Derwent and Drama League Awards for Best New York Debut of 1997.

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