![]() That’s all clear to him and it’s objective. Michael’s judgment is so clear, when he’s being shot at or he’s being chased or he’s trying to figure out a solution with a bottle of Clorox and a car battery. A lot of the directors coming in would always want me to have an intense, high stakes moment when I was being chased or shot at, and I always thought that was wrong and didn’t ring true. You show the strain at work because the stakes are so high. In real life, with a normal person, you are in every day life with your family and that’s easy, and then you go to work and that’s hard. I think anything that’s personal and emotional will always cloud judgment. I think it’ll be more personal next year than it will be professional.ĭo you think Michael will make some mistakes because the stakes are different, this time around?ĭONOVAN: Yeah. There’s a huge event that happens between Michael and Fiona that will propel Season 7, which, if all goes as planned, will be a very different kind of Burn Notice because of the trajectory, but no less dangerous for Michael. And then, at the end of the season, it’s a bit of a cliffhanger. I think that you’ll see a more of a hell-bent Michael, trying to navigate the waters towards getting back in with the CIA. It’s like calling the show Escape from the Moon and, after the sixth season, they get off the moon, and then what next? I think that the fans are going to love this last part of Season 6 because it focuses on Nate’s death, finding that killer and bringing him to justice. Burn Notice was not only an unfamiliar word to me, but I think to most fans, until they understood what the show was about. Now that Michael knows who burned him and he’s tracked down his brother’s killers, what’s next for him?ĭONOVAN: Great question. So, we do our best to never lay eyes on each other after work. When you play roles like Michael and Fiona, there is an intimacy and a spark that is hard to maintain, over seven years, when you spend every working hour with them, and then every social hour with them. How do you continue to maintain that?ĭONOVAN: We spend as little time with each other, off the set, as possible. There’s such great chemistry between you and Gabrielle Anwar on the show. ![]() I don’t see him moving in the seventh season, so we’ll probably be staying put. As far as the storyline, the network and the studio haven’t talked at all about moving it to any other kind of locale, whether it’s fictional or not, or whether we shoot in Miami, but pretend we’re in Malibu, California. He’s located there, so he’s an easy target, kind of like a fish in a barrel. Miami is obviously a hot spot for Michael and all of the agencies, foes and villains. ![]() Is there any idea of a possible relocation for filming?ĭONOVAN: Miami has actually been great. A great foe is the villain that is smarter than you. Always make the villains smarter than Michael, but have Michael figure out that one Achilles heel that the villain has.” The closest person to ever do that was Jay Karnes. I’ve said, “When you dumb down a villain, then you dumb down Michael. One of the things that I always say to Matt Nix and all of the writers is, “Never dumb down the villain.” I think why the 007 series always works is because the villains were always these mega-intelligent villains. He’s a wonderful actor and very well known. ![]() Who has been your favorite villain on the show?ĭONOVAN: That’s really tough because it’s six years of actors that have come through the show. I’ve never received better feedback from fans about any cover ID that I’ve ever played, but it was the scariest one because I thought it was so different from anything I’d ever done, not only on the show, but just as an actor. He was a cross between the devil and Clint Eastwood, and I just went out on a limb and played him. I think his name was Louis Cifer, as in Lucifer. One of the most difficult ones was this character I did, I think it was in Season 3, where I basically played the devil. Just like a writer might have a certain style that they write in and they’re comfortable with, and then someone says, “Okay, I want you to do a short story form,” it might be out of their comfort zone. From an acting standpoint, what’s been the hardest cover ID that you’ve had to do?ĭONOVAN: The hardest ones were always the ones that I hadn’t ever done before. ![]()
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