Stargate star Michael Shanks adds Burn Notice to his acting resume, landing a recurring role on the USA Network espionage drama.  Shanks will play the role of Victor, a blacklisted spy sent to Miami by Carla, played by Tricia Helfer, the new handler of the blacklisted spy and lead Michael Westen, played by Jeffrey Donovan. Shanks is only too happy to play the role, as Burn Notice has been receiving acclaim from the critics.

"It's one of those roles where I get to chew every bit of scenery in town," says the 37-year-old Canadian, "which is always fun to play.  When you have that kind of artistic license to go big or go home, it can be a bit of a romp."

Shanks also liked the fact that he was able to leave Canada to warm up in Florida, where he says it's awfully “hard” to be “in a bad mood.”

“At night, it was 95, 96, but listen, I was coming from the coldest June in Vancouver since 1937.  I had a lot of days off in the Miami sunshine…  From the point of view of having spent the last 10 months in less-than-ideal weather conditions, I was happy to be outside filming in South Beach, for example, on my first day.  I'd been to Tampa, and I'd been to Orlando, but I hadn't been to Miami, so to go there to work, to see the city that way, to have your first day be right down on Ocean Drive and to be filming in the sand of South Beach for a scene, I don't think you can beat that.”

Shanks will appear on the sixth episode of Burn Notice's second season entitled “Bad Blood.”


-Glenn L. Diaz, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: Pasadena Star News
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