We had the chance to talk with Bruce Campbell and Gabrielle Anwar about the 4th season of Burn Notice, upcoming guest stars, training, and future dates for Bruce's character Sam. Check it out below!

So we're going into Season 4, what's new? What's - where are we picking up from in terms of this whole, you've got a new character in there and I'm dying to see it...

Bruce Campbell: Come on, Gabrielle; give them the whole lowdown of the entire season.

Gabrielle Anwar: Oh, no. You know how much better you are at that than I am.

Bruce Campbell: Oh, no, oh, no, well, let me just say, I think it's safe to say that we're going to get more bad guys and we're going to get worse bad guys because this is getting worse. Michael Westen's situation is compounding and he's in a world of hurt and that drags us into it also.

So everybody's in trouble. His mother's in trouble, we're all, you know, it just - every episode it seems to escalate. I mean wouldn't you say that's the general feeling, Gabrielle?

Gabrielle Anwar: Yes, I think you're right, it builds to quite a crescendo in the last episode, but you're right, it's a continual snowballing effect. We can't seem to get out of trouble.

Bruce Campbell: No, and we have other side jobs and, you know, we all - the cases come in every week from different ways, but there's still the through line of Michael Westen's situation is getting more and more perilous and dangerous and he's getting more powerful people pissed off at him and he's, you know.

And I think by the end, I have to say, when I read the end scene of the end of this season, it actually was a jaw dropper for me. So most TV shows don't give you that. The nice thing about this season, the last half of this season is there's going to be a big boom at the end of this. There's going to be a big, "What the f?" moment.

Gee, well how do you follow that up? Okay, so in terms of your characters, you guys are getting more ramped up, more involved and seeing more danger for your characters as people as well as with Michael?

Gabrielle Anwar: Yes.

Bruce Campbell: Yes, Gabrielle, wouldn't you say we get dragged into it because of him? We're part of this team now.

Gabrielle Anwar: Yes, I think that loyalty surpasses the peril that we're all in and he's getting himself deeper and deeper into trouble and we're sort of caught in the crossfire.

Bruce Campbell: And also, you know, we can't - we can't say no to him. It's not possible. We give him a lot of crap, particularly, you know, Fiona's, you know, that character, and rightfully so, because he's doing things that are risky.

But he's one of these classic, it's all for the greater good kind of guys, so we each have our own codes and ethics, the stuff that really gets the Fiona character pissed off, the stuff that really get's Sam's goat, and the stuff that fuels Michael Westen.

So we're actually all fighting for the right thing, but we just have way different approaches in how to do it and so, you know, my theory about this show is that we break laws every episode, but we don't do anything wrong. You know what I mean? We're just trying to deal with it ourselves.


This last season Maddie has sort of become more integral to the group. Can we expect to continue to see her becoming more part of the missions?

Bruce Campbell: Gabrielle, what do you think?

Gabrielle Anwar: Yes, I think you're right. You know, I think she's always been the backbone of the team. I think she's become a little bit more visually involved. I always felt her presence in every episode previously, but yes, she definitely becomes a more integral part on camera, for sure. Thank goodness. How much do we love Sharon?

Bruce Campbell: Oh, yes, we love her a lot, so we want to get her back and you know, it's a logical progression. You can only go so many seasons with her going, "Michael, what were those dudes doing here? What were those guys with guns doing here?"

I mean, it wears out after awhile, so the nice thing is, she's accepted it, but she's also - Michael Westen is Michael Westen because of his mom, because she's a tough broad. So she's actually a great person to have in the field.

We've already used her playing Bingo, you know, and she's a great ringer and she goes in and looks for county records and all sweet and innocent and then she lies to their face, you know?

So it's a fun character for her and, you know, she happened - Sharon lives in Miami, so it's perfect for her, too. And her husband laughs because he says now she gets paid to smoke, since she loves smoking.

Do you think there'd ever be anything more between Sam and Maddie? There's great chemistry there.

Bruce Campbell: No. No.

No?

Bruce Campbell: No, because it'd be too creepy. Because I don't think Sam would do it because of Mike, because of his character, Michael Westen. Because if you're a loyal friend, you don't sleep with their mother.

All right.

Bruce Campbell: It's just not...

Right?

Bruce Campbell: No.

So you've been doing this, well, we're in the fourth season; you've been doing it awhile. What about your characters continues to challenge you?

Gabrielle Anwar: The high heels.

Bruce Campbell: The high heels and memorizing dialogue.

Gabrielle Anwar: Oh, yes, you and me both, my God.

Bruce Campbell: Yes, I mean, we, this is what people don't - it's not a complaint from us as actors, that's what we have to do, we have to memorize lines.

The only thing about television, it's like a series of waves crashing over your head before you get a full breath in that while you're sort of figuring out the current script, the next one comes in, it's like, "Hey, hey, look at that speech on page four," you know? And you haven't even gotten there yet, and so you relish it as an actor because if they didn't give you a lot of dialogue, right Gabrielle? You'd complain. If you -

Gabrielle Anwar: Well, in my heels...

Bruce Campbell: Or crappy dialogue or, you know what I mean? But if they gave you a lot, it's challenging and if they don't give you anything, it's challenging in a way. So it's sort of the basics of our job that a lot of our challenge from day to day is really just pulling this show off in seven days, which is kind of absurd.

And Gabrielle would agree that the filming methods we have to do to get this show done are absurd.

Gabrielle Anwar: Yes, it's a tremendous amount of work from every department on the crew and...

Bruce Campbell: Every department, everybody's maxed out for seven months, basically.

Gabrielle Anwar: Right and it's hard, but in television, which I wasn't privy to, because I hadn't much television experience, but you have the luxury on a feature film of, you have the script months, oftentimes before you begin, so you have the entire thing mapped out in your mind, you have a beginning, a middle and an end.

On, with a television show, you're doing a mini feature film every week, so it's very, very hard to catch up with yourself, it's just, you're so...

Bruce Campbell: And, you're meeting - sometimes meeting a new director for the first time.

Gabrielle Anwar: Right, yes.

Bruce Campbell: On the first day of shooting, "Oh, hi, what's your name? (Joe)? Oh, yes, okay. What do you got in mind here?" You know?

Gabrielle Anwar: Right. Yes, you really do have to stay on your toes, it's - and it's a lot of staying on your toes.

Bruce Campbell: Yes, and it's a marathon, you know, because the weather starts to heat up and everybody slows down and, you know, it can get brutal, but I think at the end of the day, it still is - we all feel, as actors, that the show is still worth it because it - when it all gets put together, I have to say, I watch it sometimes and I go, "Wow, that was kind of a slick ass show."

And you don't think of it - I don't think of it when we shoot it, we shoot it, we're cracking jokes, there's things happening behind the scenes. To me, it's all disjointed, but it's kind of nice to see them all put together and it's - we feel very much supported by the people on the back end, too, the people who do all the editing.

They're busy people, the editors, you know? And they keep us in line, they hopefully use all of our best stuff, because, you know, you can get raggedy over seven months, sometimes you don't nail that take every single time and you have to rely on somebody to nurture you.

So we feel supported by the writers, we feel supported by, you know, the post production and Gabrielle loves to boss the directors around, so that works out fine.