Zachary Levi & Josh Gomez of Chuck

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Interview:


We had the pleasure of speaking with Zachary Levi and Josh Gomez from NBC's Chuck. The guys talked with us about the second season of the series, their characters, and their favorite TV shows. Here's what they had to say:

How psyched are you that you have this back nine already? You know you've got a full 22 to play with. You can develop the characters. You know you can pay your bills for the next however long.

Josh Gomez: Ding, ding, ding. Yeah, we couldn't be happier. I mean, I - it's - when I got the call I was just really - it was just - I mean, you can't hear better news and it's sort of unprecedented which I thought was really, really cool.

I mean, to kind of get it this early just based off of what the network had seen and the studio had seen and stuff, I was just - it feels really good. It just gives you that confidence. You go okay, we're doing something right, you know.

So it - we kind of go forward now with a little more - hopefully a little swagger in our steps and feel confident, and know that we're on the right path. So yeah.

Zachary Levi: Yeah and I know that I should say the same but I'm really only in this acting game to work my way into infomercials. I was hoping that the 13 episodes would just wrap up and I could get on with my dream. But, you know, whatever - 9 more, that's fine.

With the writers' strike kind of all behind us now and it cut your first season short, is a lot of what we're seeing - was that intended for the first season or do - are we just kind of starting off from scratch with the second season?

Josh Gomez: Yeah, I think it's kind of starting off from scratch. I know there's probably ideas definitely being used for sure that were, you know, intended for last season that are now being put into place - absolutely.

But I think it was all sort of rearranged and rewrote, and reorganized and put into a new season - sort of fresh or whatever it does. So, you know, I don't think it was just like here, these are episodes we didn't get to.

I think there's a whole mythos and there's a whole reason why everything is happening, and a whole, you know, planned goal I'm sure at the end of the show or something like that.

So I think - but there are, I'm sure, ideas that they didn't get to get - didn't get to use that are now being used but probably in a different way or just kind of rearranged or whatever.

Josh Gomez: That or there's no plan whatsoever and we're just winging it.

Zachary Levi: You're not supposed to say that.

Well you do that very well, too.

Josh Gomez: Thank you.


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