“It's become a running joke now.  I'm never going to be able to eat again!” Ryan McPartlin wailed good naturedly to OK! Magazine about his constant state of half-nakedness on NBC's Chuck.  Of course, such displays of McPartlin's delicious upper body, are more than enough to make him a memorable character despite only fleeting glimpses of him on the show.

The 32-year old McPartlin spoke to OK! about what it's been like as the paradoxical Captain Awesome, love interest of Zachary Levi's titular character, Chuck's live-in sister, Ellie, played by Sarah Lancaster.

“I don't even think people on the set know my name as Ryan,” the actor said in jest.  “They're like, ‘Awesome, Cap, get over here.'  So it kind of stuck and buddies even call me that in Chicago.  They're like, ‘Hey Captain, what's up, man?'  So as an actor that's like the best thing that you can hope for, a name that's that fun and popular.”

McPartlin certainly knows how to make the most of his often all-too-limited screen time.  Nothing says significant screen presence more than the Captain Awesome T-shirts that became available online, just three weeks after the actor first debuted his character on the show.

“Some people actually mistake him as the dumb jock type but he's not,” McPartlin remarked about his Chuck persona.  “He's a doctor, he's nice and, actually, I have a friend who has two masters degrees, and who runs triathlons, he just finished a marathon, and he's one of the smartest, fittest guys I know, but he's kind of preoccupied with what's going on in his world and not always in touch with how the world operates for other people.  So he's a conundrum of a whole number of things.”

Neither is McPartlin resentful of the limited screen time he's been given so far, saying “you always leave them wanting more.”


-Rosario Santiago, BuddyTV Staff Columnist
Source: OK! Magazine
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