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| Topic Started: Jun 3 2009, 03:38 PM (48 Views) | |
| purplefreak3 | Jun 3 2009, 03:38 PM Post #1 |
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On June 1st 2009 thanks to Electric Artists, Inc I was able to take part in a conference call with Bruce Campbell that plays the role of Sam Axe. Below are few of the questions that where asked from Burn Notice Forums as well as other sites. ----------------------------- A. Nepal: Hi, Bruce. I was wondering, how is Burn Notice different from past TV shows you’ve done? B. Campbell: Well, the making of television is the same, it's very fast. You're doing between 6 and 11 pages per day, which is a lot. Features probably do three pages. Big features do one page a day. So that's not different. What's different, of course, is we're in Miami, which is a completely out of the box thing for me because I live in Oregon, at the complete opposite end of the country. So it's different in every way physically, and the dynamics are different. I’ve never really done a spy show before, so this is a first for me. I did a western show, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr., and I did a – well actually, no, I did a spy show, Jack of All Trades, where I played the very first spy, but this is, I guess, you'd say sort of modern day, realistic approach where it's not Hercules or Xena or something fantastic going on. What's different is also the subject matter. It's a fairly mature, adult sort of comedy/drama, with no fantastic special effects. A. Nepal: Okay, thank you for answering that. B. Campbell: All right. ----------------------------- B. Campbell: Popculture Madness, hello. K. Clarke: Hi, how are you? B. Campbell: Good, thank you. K. Clarke In playing the character of Sam, you would know him better than anyone else, so what is your favorite and least favorite aspect of Sam’s personality? B. Campbell: Of his personality? K. Clarke: Yes. B. Campbell: He's very loyal. He's not going to rat on anybody, even in the first season where you didn’t know if he was ratting on Michael, he never really did. He always just stalled the cops, so very loyal. And he is trustworthy, even though he drinks a lot of beer. His other traits are, I wish he could get a job and an apartment, and a car that he can hang onto. We're going through, like about every fourth episode, Sam gets another one of his cars wrecked. So he doesn’t even have a car, and he doesn’t even have an address, so I'd like to see, I wouldn’t mind some of that happening. But, whatever, I'm not telling the writers what to do. They're doing a fine job. ----------------------------- J. Bozeman: Bruce, good to talk to you. Thanks for taking the call. B. Campbell: You bet. J. Bozeman: What is it like playing the comical one to Michael’s kind of straight man? It's kind of a pattern here, you’ve got Jack Stiles in Brisco, you didn’t really have anyone to play off there, you were the main character, the main guy. What is it like playing off of him? B. Campbell: It's great, because he carries the show. I'm just hiding behind him, cracking jokes and getting out of there. So it's fine to actually be the guy who doesn’t, you know, Sam can be a little snotty, he can be a little snide, he's sort of a naysayer, and he always second guesses things that these guys do to make sure it's safe or tactical, whereas Michael gets involved from a passionate level. He's got to help these people, whereas Sam’s like, no, you don’t, no you don’t. So sometimes he's the voice of reason. But it's nice to have that difference between the characters, and Michael does have kind of his funny wit, a lot of it comes out in the voiceover that he does, but someone’s got to be the straight guy, and fortunately, it's Michael Westen. |
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| ralphalf | Jun 9 2009, 05:57 AM Post #2 |
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Ah cool interview. |
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