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Bruce Campbell is back with Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar and Sharon Gless when the hit USA Network series Burn Notice returns for its third season on Thursday, June 4 at 9 PM ET. Campbell plays the wonderful Sam Axe on the series, who provides for a lot of the comedy in the show, and I was in on a conference call with the acting legend where he was discussing the new season and much much more in this highly entertaining conference call. Take a look at what he had to say below.
Can you tell us a bit about what direction we can see Sam going in this third season?
Bruce 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 was wondering, how is Burn Notice different from past TV shows you've done?
Bruce 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.
Do you think there is any chance that Sam Raimi would ever direct an episode of the series?
Bruce Campbell: Sam Raimi will never direct an episode of Burn Notice because it's done too quickly. Sam is used to shooting these big, big, big, big, big movies, and it takes 100 days or more to film a two-hour piece of entertainment. We film these shows in seven days, so it's a real different mentality of features versus television. So I wouldn't wish that on Sam, because it's actually a difficult challenge every week to pull these shows off, not that Spider-Man 3 isn't, but we have a little bit of a different circumstance here.
Speaking of Sam Raimi, do you know if he's watched any of Burn Notice and if so, if he's had any comments on it? And has he spoken to you at all recently about Spider-Man 4?
Bruce Campbell: Sam, I don't know that if he's watched the show, I don't think he has. I don't think he's a big TV guy. He's very aware of the show because I keep tormenting him that we're like the number one show on cable, and whenever we're number one in something, whether it's Sam is number one at the box office or we're, as friends, we always will send that needling e-mail saying "Yeah, man, number one on cable." Then he would send something of, "Oh, yeah, Spider-Man, you know, we're number one for the opening weekend." So we have a little bit of fun back and forth, so Sam is very aware of the show, whether he's seen it, you've got me.
So we've seen you in the Old Spice commercials. Can we expect a Sam Axe body spray?
Bruce Campbell: It's weird, they're putting commercials inside the TV shows now. I've already done ads, unpaid I might add, for DirecTV. I even have a line of dialogue. "Mike, we can't go back into that bar now. It's my favorite, it's got DirecTV in HD." Cadillac we've promoted. Panerai watches we promoted, and now Miller Genuine Draft, so, unfortunately the way advertising is going, I may not be doing a Sam Axe body spray because they'll just put it in the show. So things are changing rapidly. It's a very strange world out there as far as advertising goes.
Some of my favorite parts on the show are when Sam and Fi have to go ahead and be on stakeouts, and always something ends up going wrong. Can we anticipate any really good Sam and Fi action here this season?
Bruce Campbell: Oh, sure. Whatever you get on the other seasons you'll get this season, too, because they're still not fishing buddies. I mean, they'll agree to work with each other but I don't think they would associate with each other otherwise, so it's a good opportunity to let the sparks fly a little bit. So that won't change. That will continue to happen.
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There's tons of other questions about the show itself & Sam Axe at the site itself. I just decided to post a few of them.
http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE77zg8bO7oE9g
Can you tell us a bit about what direction we can see Sam going in this third season?
Bruce 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 was wondering, how is Burn Notice different from past TV shows you've done?
Bruce 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.
Do you think there is any chance that Sam Raimi would ever direct an episode of the series?
Bruce Campbell: Sam Raimi will never direct an episode of Burn Notice because it's done too quickly. Sam is used to shooting these big, big, big, big, big movies, and it takes 100 days or more to film a two-hour piece of entertainment. We film these shows in seven days, so it's a real different mentality of features versus television. So I wouldn't wish that on Sam, because it's actually a difficult challenge every week to pull these shows off, not that Spider-Man 3 isn't, but we have a little bit of a different circumstance here.
Speaking of Sam Raimi, do you know if he's watched any of Burn Notice and if so, if he's had any comments on it? And has he spoken to you at all recently about Spider-Man 4?
Bruce Campbell: Sam, I don't know that if he's watched the show, I don't think he has. I don't think he's a big TV guy. He's very aware of the show because I keep tormenting him that we're like the number one show on cable, and whenever we're number one in something, whether it's Sam is number one at the box office or we're, as friends, we always will send that needling e-mail saying "Yeah, man, number one on cable." Then he would send something of, "Oh, yeah, Spider-Man, you know, we're number one for the opening weekend." So we have a little bit of fun back and forth, so Sam is very aware of the show, whether he's seen it, you've got me.
So we've seen you in the Old Spice commercials. Can we expect a Sam Axe body spray?
Bruce Campbell: It's weird, they're putting commercials inside the TV shows now. I've already done ads, unpaid I might add, for DirecTV. I even have a line of dialogue. "Mike, we can't go back into that bar now. It's my favorite, it's got DirecTV in HD." Cadillac we've promoted. Panerai watches we promoted, and now Miller Genuine Draft, so, unfortunately the way advertising is going, I may not be doing a Sam Axe body spray because they'll just put it in the show. So things are changing rapidly. It's a very strange world out there as far as advertising goes.
Some of my favorite parts on the show are when Sam and Fi have to go ahead and be on stakeouts, and always something ends up going wrong. Can we anticipate any really good Sam and Fi action here this season?
Bruce Campbell: Oh, sure. Whatever you get on the other seasons you'll get this season, too, because they're still not fishing buddies. I mean, they'll agree to work with each other but I don't think they would associate with each other otherwise, so it's a good opportunity to let the sparks fly a little bit. So that won't change. That will continue to happen.
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There's tons of other questions about the show itself & Sam Axe at the site itself. I just decided to post a few of them.
http://www.movieweb.com/news/NE77zg8bO7oE9g
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