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And how you are – and how the camera captures you is important. But also, you know, being an actress and being in front of the camera you do have to be conscience of that, and so it’s more tied into just understanding that the nature of my job, you know, image is a big part of the job. You know, just for me in terms of just, you know, for me my dietary and physical exercise regimen, you know, my health and wellness regimen in general is more influenced by just the way I want to feel as a human being. You know, when I land that role, I will tell you yes. So I haven’t had to change in my dietary regimen, you know, and my exercise regimen too much. I don’t feel as though I have taken on that female James Bond roll just yet. Sonja Sohn: That’s an interesting question.

With each demanding physical role that you tackle, is your workout and dietary regimen different based on the character that you envision in her head? Whereas she gets to create the strategy for her objective here, which is capturing Michael. As opposed to when you are taking orders you may have some sort of conflict about the order that you being given but you basically have to carry out the order. And because she is charge and she is giving orders you can see that. But she is always playing that out in her mind. You know, that eventually, you know, you will see throughout the arc that she is playing out. I like, you know, she, you know, there is a whole strategy that she can see that she is playing out. You know, let’s say for instance, you know, let’s just compare to characters that play on the wire, who follow the orders, you know, I like playing the character that was giving the orders. What I loved about Olivia, was she was in charge, well I can’t say some of the things I want to say actually because these are things you need to find out by watching the show. Sonja Sohn: You know, I love the fact, you know, I played, you know, cops and tough characters before, strong female characters before. No nonsense, you know, kind of energy that I think makes it easy for me to portray those rolls.Īnd what was it about Olivia though, that really drew you to this particular character? And I think there is an essence of a certain kind of strength that I put out and, you know, certainly, you know, the basic, you know, toughness. And that essence is perceived, you know, through, you know, in a sensorial way, you know, whether it’s conscience or unconscious by everyone that they come in contact with.

And I think that there’s something about – think there is a strength, you know, I think every actor, I think every actor, and even every person really, you know, walks around with a certain essence. You know, it’s almost as though, I mean I would almost pose that question a little differently – not that I am going to step on your territory – because I am approached with these opportunities to take these role, right? And these happen to be these roles that, you know, I am offered, that I am landing. Sonja Sohn: Besides the fact that they are jobs? They are acting jobs and I am an actor. Before I went on holiday break, I did a conference call with Sonja about her role on Burn Notice and she also talked about what draws her to certain roles and her advice to actors.Ĭheck it out below! What is it about these action roles that really draws you to them?

#Burn notice actors series#

Since The Wire ended, she’s popped up on Brothers and Sisters, The Good Wife, was a series regular on ABC’s Body of Proof was recently in a crucial role on USA’s Burn Notice as Olivia Riley. One of my all-time favorite shows is HBO’s The Wire, David Simon‘s grim and gritty look at inner city Baltimore and Sonja Sohn, who played Detective Kima Greggs, was an integral part of that show.