Adam Baldwin

Okay, I’ve been naughty. I’ve been besieged by emails from many of you, gentle readers, wondering what happened last week with the day I spent with the cast from NBC’s action comedy Chuck: Zachary Levi, Yvonne Strahovski, and Adam Baldwin. (Before you ask, yes, Strahovski does know about the existence of the Yvonne-centric website StraHOTski.com, thanks to her costars.)

I’ve been on enough photo shoots in my day to know that there’s bound to be a lot of sitting and waiting between shots and setups (hell, if you’ve been to press junkets, you should be used to the endless waiting), but thanks to the good folks at Warner Bros. Television who organized the day and to the charming stars of Chuck who were more than happy to spend their Sunday shooting an assortment of promos and chatting with this jaded TV writer, I’d do it all over again.

These guys are all extremely talented, generous, and kind-hearted and have amazing stores of energy. Zach Levi in particular is extremely animated, offering up take after take after take, performing goofy karate moves while giving 110% to each line reading of "You’re watching Chuck on..." for each of the international territories the series has been sold to. Or even he asked the promo director, upon being handed a white heart prop (which earlier, Adam Baldwin had turned over to form a posterior), whether his instructions to act as though he had a heavy heart (emotionally) or whether said heart was physically heavy. Needless to say, he performed it both ways with a great deal of charm and humor.

I was anxious to catch up with Levi, with whom I had spoken in September just before NBC launched Chuck, along with co-creator Josh Schwartz.

Speaking about the love triangle between Chuck, Sarah, and Bryce, Levi says it’s only natural that people are invested in that dynamic. "So many people want Bryce Larkin dead, dead, you have no idea," Levi jokes. "I mean, mainly friends and family."

So will Chuck and Sarah get together? "From an entertainment standpoint, it’s like the Ross and Rachel," says Levi, "the longer you keep it eeeeeh, the more people are like eeeeh, the longer they watch the show."

Still, he relishes the accessibility of Chuck. "It’s a good mix between procedural and serial," he says. "It’s not like when you go and sit and watch Lost with someone who’s never watched it before and you’re like sitting down and ready for the episode and they’re like ’wait, who are the Others?’ and you’re like ’Shut up! Just watch the show! I’ll fill you in later.’ Chuck at least is a little bit easier, he’s a bad guy, he’s a good guy."

Levi is, as previously teased, a huge Lost fan. We’re talking so near obsessive that he stops an interview about his own series to offer up theories about who was in the coffin in "Through the Looking Glass," what’s going on with Jack and Kate, and his disappointment that Evangeline Lilly wasn’t around during my recent interviews of the Lost cast just a few days before.

He’s also hugely obsessed with fellow Warner Bros. Television drama Pushing Daisies (rightfully so), a series Levi described as “Amelie meets your favorite Tim Burton movie.” Levi recounts that he must have had half a dozen screening parties Pushing Daisies’ pilot, when he meant to be showing friends and family his own.

Oh, in case you were wondering, Levi loves 30 Rock. "Baldwin is so genius, it drives me crazy," he adds. And, um, surprisingly he loves The Big Bang Theory.

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