Author: Emma Loggins
Date: 2009-06-08

Interview:
We had the pleasure of interview Bruce Campbell with USA Network's Burn Notice. We spoke with him about everything from the 3rd season of the series, Evil Dead, and his childhood hobby of blowing things up and making UFO's.

Can you tell us a bit about what direction we can see Sam going in this third season?

B. Campbell: Well, Sam by now is, we're now past the point where we don't trust him. He's a hopefully valuable member of the team now, and so, like Michael Westen, Sam is taking the twists and turns as they come now. I don't know that Sam is going to get married or any personal revelation. Sam is pretty much living in Michael's mother's house, a room in her house, so he's just kind of a permanent loser, at least in this season. And he's always there to help.

I watched the screeners and it felt to me like the third episode should have been the first episode, since it picked up right where the second season left off. Do you know if there was a reason that they were ordered that way?

B. Campbell: Well, that is tough for me to answer, not being in on the big picture like. Actors, we're always the last people to know anything.

Right.

B. Campbell: So I can't really help you there. I know that we shot them out of order. But they were meant to be screened where, Tim Matheson's episode, I think it's "Friends & Family" is the first one, and we shot them out of order because we wanted to kind of get up to speed for the new season before we let them have it with the big opener. So we shot the first episode third, so I don't know, maybe they gave it to you in some strange order. But it will hopefully make sense when it airs on Thursday.

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.

I wanted to ask about the Expo Center almost getting demolished recently, and it sounds like you got a one-year reprieve to stay there for a while longer.

B. Campbell: We did, we got a one-year reprieve.