Yeah, we know all about Chuck Bartowski. He toils at Buy More and has a sister named Ellie and a best bud named Morgan. But — and fittingly — the agent to his secret, Sarah Walker, is full of mystery. Slice of SciFi partner TVGuide.com, set out on a mission of their own to get the scoop on Aussie beauty and U.S. TV newcomer Yvonne Strahovski. (Psst, she reveals what it is that she just did for the very… first… time!) NBC’s “Chuck” airs every Monday at 8PM ET.
Here is just a sample of their chat with Yvonne. To read the entire interview go HERE:
TVGuide.com: I now hear that you in fact have an Australian accent. I wasn’t sure, because some actors, when they’re working here, try not to use it during downtime.
Strahovski: I’m not one of those people. In between takes, I’m Australian. I feel a bit silly if I stay in it the whole time. I don’t feel like it’s me talking to people. [Laughs]
TVGuide.com: Do you and Rachel Griffiths and Jacqueline McKenzie have a bar you hang out at together?
Strahovski: Actually, no — but there is a pretty strong Australian community here. They do screenings every so often of an Australian film, and they’ll have the featured Australian actor come in for a Q&A session. But I don’t really have time to go to them anymore because I don’t have a life, now that I work on Chuck!
TVGuide.com: I was speaking to Alex O’Loughlin from CBS’ Moonlight the other day….
Strahovski: Yeah, Alex and I know each other. His dad and my mom work together in Australia.
TVGuide.com: I was busting his chops about all the Aussies and Brits working on prime time this season and he was like, “Hey, we’re just going where the work is.”
Strahovski: That’s right. There’s not a lot happening in Australia.
TVGuide.com: Have you had any previous flirtation with U.S. prime-time television?
Strahovski: This was the first pilot season I had done. I was actually auditioning from Australia, in Sydney, putting auditions on tape and sending them over as QuickTime [files]. Chuck was one of the [shows] I sent to, and they called me to say, “Come have a meeting with us.” So I met with [executive producer/director] McG and [series creators] Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, and they gave me the job.
TVGuide.com: Have you had any sort of martial-arts training, or do you just thank god that you have a good stuntperson?
Strahovski: Actually, she doesn’t get to do much, because I like to do my own things. I’ve been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques…. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography. It’s not hard for me to do all that stuff. In fact it’s one of my favorite parts of the job.
TVGuide.com: Is the formula going to be, from week to week, that something comes up, Chuck has information, and they go on a mission together? Or might there be deviations?
Strahovski: There is a mission every week and Chuck somehow gets involved, intentionally or not. And sometimes the Chuck world and the spy world cross and create dangerous situations. There’s a lot of stuff to explore within that.
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