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Interview: Gabrielle Anwar
The British charmer talks about her gun-toting status on 'Burn Notice'
By Blaine Kyllo | Sunday, February 8, 2009
She’s petite, she’s beautiful, and on Burn Notice, Gabrielle Anwar plays things tough as nails.
As Fiona Glenanne, an Irish expat with ties to the IRA, Anwar is more comfortable with a gun in her hand than a purse. She advises using a golf club rather than a bat for beating up on gangsters because they can be made to move faster.
It’s a bit of a departure for Anwar, who broke out in Scent of a Woman, which also starred Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell, but the actress seems to relish her role as a tough, no-nonsense woman.
Burn Notice, which has been picked up for a third season of 16 episodes on USA, stars Jeffrey Donovan as Michael Westen, a former operative who has been functionally exiled in Miami and is trying to figure out who burned his career. Fiona Glenanne is a former girlfriend whom Westen came to know while on assignment in Ireland.
The specifics of the relationship between Michael and Fiona are ever vague, but the sexual and emotional tension between the two is palpable.
The third wheel is Sam Axe, played by Bruce Campbell, formerly a Navy Seal. Together, the trio work to help the little people who have been taken advantage of, all the while trying to help Michael restore his reputation.
A brief excerpt:
...Question: When we talk to a lot of actors and actresses they sometimes are fearful of couples getting together or not getting together, thinking about what ramifications it might have on the length or the life of the series. Do you want to see them get together? Do you want to see them stay apart? How do you want to see this relationship play out?
Gabrielle Anwar: I have to agree. I think there’s a certain amount of tension that is inevitable when a relationship isn’t really predictable. Obviously, Michael and Fiona have consummated their affection for one another. I think that the likelihood of their hooking up in a conventional manner with an engagement or a marriage or something, it’s just not in their cards. I don’t think it would appeal to either of them actually. They’re out of the box.
So I don’t think that would be an issue as far as . . . just not have any kind of predictability. I find that much more intriguing. When you start taking someone for granted in real life or in make-believe it loses a sense of passion, particularly in my eyes.
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