{"id":49532,"date":"2025-07-08T19:58:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49532\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T19:58:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T19:58:10","slug":"nathan-fillion-jokes-about-his-civilian-pavilion-on-jimmy-kimmel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/49532\/","title":{"rendered":"Nathan Fillion jokes about his \u2018Civilian Pavilion\u2019 on Jimmy Kimmel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Fillion took some lighthearted jabs at the unofficial Edmonton parklett named after him while making an appearance on \u201cJimmy Kimmel Live!\u201d this week.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to guest host Anthony Anderson, Edmonton-born Fillion agreed the \u201cNathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion\u201d on Whyte Avenue was a less than inspirational namesake.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt looks like a bus stop,\u201d joked Anderson during Monday\u2019s show.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not wrong, you\u2019re not wrong,\u201d the 54-year-old Canadian actor answered.<\/p>\n<p>Again making a tongue-in-cheek remark, Fillion went on to question the pavilion\u2019s possible safety hazards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s right up there in the middle of Whyte Avenue,\u201d Fillion said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s actually off the curb too. So it\u2019s in the street. It\u2019s pretty dangerous, pretty dangerous. Really taking your life into your own hands when you enjoy the Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"596\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Nathan-Fillion-pavilion-2-e1751999172419.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-712075\" style=\"width:833px;height:auto\"  \/>The unofficial Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion. (Courtesy: Instagram\/nathanfillion)<\/p>\n<p>The star of \u201cCastle,\u201d \u201cThe Rookie\u201d and \u201cThe Suicide Squad,\u201d acknowledged the pavilion was made possible by a radio show in Edmonton. That would be CityNews\u2019 sister station Sonic 102.9.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Lauren Hunter from Sonic 102.9 began the campaign to rename an Edmonton park after Fillion. A petition garnered thousands of signatures and was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edmonton.citynews.ca\/2021\/08\/03\/nathan-fillion-civilian-pavilion-petition-gets-backing-from-suicide-squad-cast\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">supported by the actor\u2019s \u201cSuicide Squad\u201d castmates<\/a><\/strong>, such as Margot Robbie.<\/p>\n<p>The City of Edmonton announced in 2021 the \u201cNathan Fillion Civilian Pavilion\u201d would become reality with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/edmonton.citynews.ca\/2021\/08\/06\/nathan-fillion-civilian-pavilion-official-in-edmonton-for-the-weekend\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">temporary signage at city hall<\/a><\/strong> for the opening weekend of \u201cThe Suicide Squad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Whyte Ave business Vivid Print installed unofficial Nathan Fillion Civilian Pavillion signage on a newly installed parklett, getting a nod from the TV and movie star on social media.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/C64JY4tRFVa\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\" style=\" background:#FFF; border:0; border-radius:3px; box-shadow:0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width:540px; min-width:326px; padding:0; width:99.375%; width:-webkit-calc(100% - 2px); width:calc(100% - 2px);\"\/>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nathan Fillion took some lighthearted jabs at the unofficial Edmonton parklett named after him while making an appearance&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":49533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[185,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-49532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114819387144440865","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}