New York Post has a nice piece on Yvonne Strahovski. Most of it is about her personal life but here’s the 24 related info.
“You meet Kate at a point in her life when she’s feeling dejected and doesn’t have a lot to hold onto,” Strahovski says. “When Jack Bauer comes into the picture, and she has an opportunity to make things right and maybe prove herself, she jumps at it, and then turns into someone who’s hunting him in a way. It’s dark.”
Strahovski will say she’s become buddies with her “24” co-star Gbenga Akinnagbe, who plays CIA field operative Erik Ritter, another new character. “He’s a great guy, like a kid on set,” she says.
As for the star of “24,” Sutherland, she says he “knows the show inside and out. He lives and breathes his character. Between him and Jon Cassar, the in-house director and producer, they really know it very well.”
Cassar says of Strahovski: “Yvonne has been a great addition to the new ‘24.’ Not only is she very comfortable with the physical demands of her character but she moves through those scenes with a gravitas that makes you believe she’s been a CIA agent all her life. And if that isn’t enough, she does it all with a great attitude under very difficult shooting circumstances.”
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Comments ClosedChlojack
April 30, 2014 at 3:06 pm“Strahovski, 31, says she plays her super-agent character, Kate Morgan, with a purposeful coldness and detachment. ”
It will be interesting to see if Kate softens as the season progresses. Yvonne is really good at playing both tough and vulnerable sides of the character, so I hope we see some of the latter during the season.
Chlojack
April 30, 2014 at 3:09 pmhttp://grantland.com/features/jack-in-the-box/
http://www.kitsapsun.com/news/2014/apr/30/tv-review-the-clock-is-ticking—-a-thankfully/#axzz30OkfuZb5
http://unclebarky.com/reviews_files/f474a7a6f29ebdc219434cfe57429249-1754.html
Brad
May 1, 2014 at 9:31 amXAM
April 30, 2014 at 3:20 pmChlojack
April 30, 2014 at 3:41 pmhttp://www.metacritic.com/tv/24-live-another-day/season-9
Chlojack
April 30, 2014 at 4:15 pmhttp://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20812199,00.html
24fan
April 30, 2014 at 5:29 pm“For nearly half of the first hour, Jack says jack. ”
I don’t understand why the article portrays this as a negative thing. Do they think Jack supposed to chat it up with the CIA agents when his goal is to break Chloe out?
“Instead of being drawn into the story, we keep waiting for it to start.”
Unlike most shows, I’d say 24 is very fast paced, which definitely helps it, (not that pacing really matters if a show is well written.) Most shows don’t have action in at least the first few episodes, and if it only takes half an hour to have action in the new season, I still don’t see anything wrong with it.
“When it does, 24 gets rolling with an explosive (if ridiculously easy) jailbreak.”
Okay…I understand what they mean there…
Have I seen LAD yet? No…but I feel like this article isn’t elaborating on why it deserves a C+. If the only problem with LAD is that it follows the 24 “formula,” then it’s all fine with me…
Chlojack
April 30, 2014 at 5:53 pmGerry Mander
April 30, 2014 at 11:48 pmAnd what I predicted would surely happen has indeed done so; that some would criticize the new (limited) series for largely sticking with the tried-and-true ’24’ formula rather than re-invent the proverbial wheel. Other than the fact that they HAVE sort of reinvented ’24’ just by virtue of the fact this is a 12-episode run that will jump time as and when needed by the plot (a first for the show), I’m not sure how some expect the formula to be changed to their liking, or indeed any good reason why the writers should eschew the central conceit or visual language of the series at this late stage… although it’s interesting to note that both of which would likely have been significantly altered or dumped altogether had the proposed feature film – especially had it been directed by Antoine Fuqua (a deliciously exciting prospect it has to be said) – been put into production as originally planned a couple of years back.
Either way, the movie wasn’t meant to be and ‘Live Another Day’ was, I’m just glad Jack is back and so should we all… more so if the new series turns out like gangbusters!
Brad
May 1, 2014 at 8:56 amChlojack
May 1, 2014 at 3:02 pmIf shows like NCIS, Castle, or CSI suddenly changed their shows and reinvented the wheel, I think their fanbases would be outraged. Not sure why 24 should be expected to do the same. I’ve seen shows that made major changes and were trashed as a result. Lots of Chuck fans were disappointed with later seasons, even though the show was never guilty of rehashing. Roseanne changed their show completely in the final season and it was trashed by fans and critics.