Chuck’s Yvonne Strahovski
Another great new TV show this fall is Chuck. Chuck Bartowski is a socially awkward twenty-something who works as a computer expert at the Nerd Herd (a parody of “Geek Squad”) at his local Buy More (a parody of “Best Buy”), a local electronics retailer (a CompUSA store was used), with his best friend, Morgan Grimes. Chuck’s sister, Ellie, is a doctor who is constantly looking out for his best interests and wants to help him find a girlfriend. On the night of his birthday party, Chuck receives an e-mail from his former Stanford University roommate, Bryce Larkin, who is now a “rogue” CIA agent. When he opens it, he unwittingly downloads an entire server of sensitive data, once only private to the Government of the United States, into his brain. Both the National Security Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency want the intelligence returned to them and dispatch agents of their own, Major John Casey and Sarah Walker, respectively, to retrieve the data. As Chuck experiences flashes of memory activated by certain subliminal triggers, he must use the knowledge he now possess to help the government thwart assassins and international terrorists, thereby upending his previously uneventful life. Chuck’s decision to keep his newfound occupation a secret from his family and friends and to live his life as normally as possible forces Casey and Walker to establish an uneasy alliance with the shared goal of protecting Chuck at all costs.
Yvonne Strahovski who plays Sarah Walker on the show spills her secrets to TV Guide in a interview that one of my friends sent over and gives a fun glimpse as to who she really is. Here is the interview:
TVGuide.com: I’m so glad to talk to you! We get regular reports on the most-searched-for names, and you’re towards the top of the list. Did you know that?
Yvonne Strahovski: Yeah! [My publicist] Erica told me, and that’s pretty special.TVGuide.com: Of course, the results would be even better if your fans could decide on a spelling of your last name.
Strahovski: Oh, yes…. Well, it’s spelled correctly in the credits of the show.TVGuide.com: Ever think of going with, like, “Yvonne Streep”?
Strahovski: I did think about that, but the way it’s spelled now is the phonetic version of what it usually is [Yvonne Strzechowski].
