Mary Lynn Rajskub – Actress, 24 Live Another Day

                          You’ve already talked a little bit about how this incarnation of Chloe was developed, and I was just wondering – there is a range of acting processes that goes from Laurence Olivier’s it’s all just pretend to Stanislavski's method, and I was just wondering where does your style, your process fit between those two extremes, and how did that play a part in the development of the new Chloe?

Mary Lynn This is one of those questions that, as an actor, I feel like diving in and talking about it for 45 minutes, but how to encapsulate that – I mean, I have a comedy background.  So my approach is very instinctual, and I like to feel it out, you know, in the moment, especially in rehearsal.  I’m comfortable with things happening really quickly, and kind of adding that to stuff that I’ve done alone going over scripts and then putting that altogether in the moments.Certainly, when Chloe first came – when I first played the character.  I think I brought a lot to it, just by virtue of my interpretation of what I would be like as that person and then, as we’ve seen the years go on, it turned out to be, I don’t know, I somehow managed to bring humor to a situation where there was none.  Now, having said that, I obviously take my job very seriously and love it.  I did acting in high school and things like that but it’s interesting to be with Kiefer, who, somehow, we work really well together, but I think we have different styles in that respect.  I feel like I’m not really answering this specifically.  It’s more a follow-up question.

I think that was actually very good.  Thank you for that.  And as a follow-up, just as a fan, I’m wondering, will we get to see that side of Chloe that fans have come to call commando Chloe at some point in the series?

Mary Lynn I hope so, I mean, she showed up a little bit.  I just thought of something that I want to follow up with as far as approaching the character that pertains this time around, which kind of is a bit of commando Chloe, but it’s, as you call it – I just adopted your phrasing there.  I love it.  But she is really in a lot of pain, and kind of just holding on.  She’s not very happy with Jack, and we saw that in episode two, and so the first time for me there are moments where, even though I could always find humor somehow in the most intense situations or some sarcastic remark at least, this time around, she’s in such pain that I wasn’t really able to find any levity at all and that was another surprising layer to play and kind of challenging as an actor.  She certainly is very different.  It’s like the writers are always holding back from Chloe becoming fully blown with a gun riding side-by-side.  I mean, she is with Jack but I haven’t really brandished a gun yet, I’ll tell you that.