I feel like I read something once upon a time that said Joss initially meant for Mal to be a lot older, and then they auditioned Nathan and were like, nah, wait this is a lot better. So maybe the older birth date is from that.
Huh, I haven't heard that. That would be interesting.
I did hear that the role of Mal was originally written for Nicholas Brendon, who had to turn it down due to scheduling conflicts with Buffy, and Brendon is the same age as Fillion.









