Piper Perabo and Christopher Gorham are back for Season Two of the hit USA series, Covert Affairs. In a recent interview, taken just in time for the upcoming season premiere, the two dished about stunts, relationships, shooting internationally, and more. Read an excerpt below and the entire interview here.
So what strengths will play against your characters and what weaknesses will play for your characters this season?
Piper Perabo: Well, that's a good question.
Christopher Gorham: Yeah.
Piper Perabo: I think Annie's inexperience still continues to be both a weakness and a strength for her. She has a kind of trust in her gut instincts on how to solve things but not only can it kind of lead her off in a strange direction but actually lead her more quickly to the answer. But it can also put her in a lot of danger because she kind of leaps before she looks. So in some ways what aids Annie is also what can put her in danger.
Christopher Gorham: Yeah. I think for Auggie, one example of this is one of the earlier episodes because Auggie's got the CIA dialed in and he's very good at what he does.
And because of that he gets an opportunity for kind of a major promotion and really has to do some soul searching and decide what he wants his life to be like at the CIA and what he really wants to do. He gets this great opportunity because he's performed so well but then really has to ask himself if at the end of the day that's what he wants and what's going to make him happy. So it brings up kind of a crisis of a conscious and a big potential turning point for him.
Can you talk about some of the guest stars this season?
Christopher Gorham: Oded Fehr is coming back for more than one episode actually. And we just had Jamie Alexander from Thor who's done a couple episodes. Rebecca Mader (Lost) just started shooting an episode for us.
Piper Perabo: Peter Stormare came in. (So amazing. Amazing.) We've gotten really good guest starts this year. Mark Moses from Mad Men. It makes it really fun.
Since the show is actually shooting internationally, where have you shot so far?
Christopher Gorham: We've sent people to Puerto Rico. We've been to Paris. I'm going to Istanbul soon. And I think we have at least one more international location this year that's on the books. So we're really getting out there. We kind of tested the waters with it last year sending a second unit crew to different spots around the world. And then at the very end of the season they sent Eion Bailey to Sri Lanka.
And so since we had success with it last year, this year they've allowed us to kind of expand things a little bit. And it's been great. I mean the second episode of Season 2 is the Paris episode. It was Doug Liman shooting Piper in Paris and at the Louvre. The footage is incredible.
It really adds to the show and just broadens the scope and makes the show bigger. So it's been great. We're shooting like two full production days in Istanbul for the Auggie episode. So it's just going to make it incredible.
Read the entire interview here.
Stay tuned for the Season 2 premiere of Covert Affairs, Tuesday, June 7, 2011 at 10/9c on USA!
Melody Simpson
Hollywood the Write Way
Twitter: @melodysimpson
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