"I would say I'm more fun. I'm steeped in fear. Sharks. Sharks, heights and bears. I would be afraid to be on a bear-filled island in a tall tree overhanging a shark-filled ocean."
-"Castle" star Nathan Fillion, explaining to MTV News' Jocelyn Vena that he is more "fun" than "fearless" on the red carpet at Cosmopolitan magazine's 2010 Fun Fearless Males party. Though Fillion regularly brushes up against dangerous criminals on "Castle" and has battled space dangers on "Firefly," he rejects the idea of adventuring any place where he might come in contact with heights, bears or sharks.
Fillion joined over a dozen other stars honored at the party, including Ne-Yo, "Twilight" star Kellan Lutz, "True Blood" leading man Stephen Moyer, "Gossip Girl" and "The O.C." creator Josh Schwartz and NFL wide receiver Terrell Owens. Schwartz had a similar take on the "Fun or Fearless?" question. I would say I'm equal measures of both ... because I'm the first one to lie to you," he joked. "Reading it in the magazine, [those aren't] the first two [words] I would think of to describe myself, but I'm happy to be labeled that way. 'Neurotic' and 'anxious,' but they're not going to award you for that in Cosmo."
Meanwhile, Moyer sat on the fence. "I think that sometimes I'm fearless and sometimes I'm fun, but it's very rare to be able to be fun and fearless together. I think fearless can be quite scary," he said. But Paul Wesley, star of "The Vampire Diaries," hopped on the same train as Fillion. "I'm gonna go with fun, because I get terrified pretty easily," he explained. "For example, on the series, they put some vampire makeup on me sometimes, and then I'll go to lunch and I'll forget that it's on. Then I'll look in the mirror and have a mini heart attack."