Interview with Yvonne Strahovski

Matt Mitovich interview Yvonne Strahovski (Sarah Walker) for TV Guide. Here’s an excerpt:

TVGuide.com: I now hear that you in fact have an Australian accent. I wasn’t sure, because some actors, when they’re working here, try not to use it during downtime.
Strahovski: I’m not one of those people. In between takes, I’m Australian. I feel a bit silly if I stay in it the whole time. I don’t feel like it’s me talking to people. [Laughs]

TVGuide.com: Do you and Rachel Griffiths and Jacqueline McKenzie have a bar you hang out at together?
Strahovski: Actually, no — but there is a pretty strong Australian community here. They do screenings every so often of an Australian film, and they’ll have the featured Australian actor come in for a Q&A session. But I don’t really have time to go to them anymore because I don’t have a life, now that I work on Chuck!

TVGuide.com: I was speaking to Alex O’Loughlin from CBS’ Moonlight the other day….
Strahovski: Yeah, Alex and I know each other. His dad and my mom work together in Australia.

TVGuide.com: I was busting his chops about all the Aussies and Brits working on prime time this season and he was like, “Hey, we’re just going where the work is.”
Strahovski: That’s right. There’s not a lot happening in Australia.

TVGuide.com: Have you had any previous flirtation with U.S. prime-time television?
Strahovski: This was the first pilot season I had done. I was actually auditioning from Australia, in Sydney, putting auditions on tape and sending them over as QuickTime [files]. Chuck was one of the [shows] I sent to, and they called me to say, “Come have a meeting with us.” So I met with [executive producer/director] McG and [series creators] Josh Schwartz and Chris Fedak, and they gave me the job. (read the entire interview…)

And regarding all that talk about not having much information available on the web for Yvonne? Well, we think we’re doing a pretty good job of collecting interviews and images; stay tuned for an announcement about what we’re doing with all of that later this week. See, sometimes we can be mysterious.