by Emma Loggins

We had the honor of attending the Burn Notice press junket in Miami just last week, where were able to interview the cast and crew from the series, including the charming lead actor, Jeffrey Donovan. Here's what he had to say:



Jeffrey Donovan: Alright, all of you should not be drinking any soda. No soda. No soda.

[laughs] Uh oh!

JD: How's it going? Have you had a good day today, so far? You got to interview everybody exciting so far...

We've been waiting for you!

JD: It's all downhill from me. All downhill.

Sharon Gless talked you up a lot.

JD: Oh, my mama. My mama. [laughter] Isn't she amazing?

She said nothing but lovely things about you.

JD: She's been like a mother to me down here. She is so great. Her and her husband, Barney - you know famous producer - they're just so great. I wish they were my parents.

She seemed like she's pretty much adopted you.

JD: Yeah, she has, she has. I'm filing papers next week.

Everyone said you don't sweat, what's the secret to that?

JD: [laughs] Who's everyone?

Everyone. [laughs]

JD: Well, it's like the yogurt, it's like a running gag now. It's not that I don't sweat, I don't look like I sweat. I can't do this job without thirteen to fourteen hours of energy per day, you know? So, what I did... I got in pretty good shape last year but I got in better shape this year. And I don't mean just working, I really looked at my diet and how athletes train to peak during a game? Well, they're looking at a sustainable energy of three hours, let's say, well mine is thirteen hours. So I started talking to a nutritionist about that and learned a lot about diet, learned a lot about your body as an eco-system and a furnace at the same time and how all the organisms live with the food and burns, blah, blah, which will never get printed... But, anyway, your body is an engine and I just want it to run as efficiently as possible so that I can have sustainable energy in the dip because, if I'm in every scene and I give my all to a scene with Gabrielle, I don't want to walk in and short change Bruce or Sharon. So, I try to parcel out my energy throughout the day and I realized everything has to do with diet and that's my fuel. So, long answer is that my diet allows me to burn energy the most efficient way throughout the day so I never get hot.

Did you have to radically change your diet to do this?

JD: Uh, no. My diet was like 80% there then I met with a nutritionist and talked it out and showed him what my day was like and he said, "You're doing pretty good, just I would eat more of this in the morning and this is what you should have throughout the day and blah, blah, blah..."