Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless
TheStarScoop.Com recently spoke to Bruce Campbell and Sharon Gless in a mutli media interview to discuss their hit show Burn Notice.
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Moderator:
Next we will go to the line of Traci Grant with TheStarScoop.com. Please go ahead.
T. Grant:
Hi, it’s a pleasure to speak to you both.
Sharon Gless:
Thank you.
Bruce Campbell:
Thanks.
T. Grant:
So my question for you is, for both of you, the show sort of projects itself as a tutorial. It teaches you about different operatives and things you can use in real life. Have either of you ever been motivated to go ahead and try some of these things that the show teaches?
Bruce Campbell:
No, and I don’t recommend it either. I don’t recommend that anybody build anything from any fictional show.
Sharon Gless:
Right. Don’t try this at home.
Bruce Campbell:
It’s very important, do not try this at home for all kinds of reasons. I do know, as an adventurous child, we sent UFOs up that were constructed of dry cleaning bags over balsa wood struts with candles as thrusters. And you know, we could have set the woods on fire. We had homemade explosives, we could have blown our hands off. So growing up in suburban Detroit, I definitely had an older brother who was crazy and we were always mixing the wrong things together. Making gunpowder, and so I’m glad to have survived, actually. But now as an adult I can look back and go, “Yeesh, man that was stupid.” So I don’t caution the separation of church and state when it comes to TV shows it’s all fake, folks.
Sharon Gless:
When I was watching the show. Alright, we know I can’t look at my own stuff. But anyway, I asked Matt in reading all these scripts. I said, “Matt,” I’ve been in scenes or standing by watching Michael and Sam and Fi build stuff right there with whatever they had. And they go in really close and said to Matt, I said, “Matt, this looks really real. I mean you’re going to have people go home and aren’t children watching this?” And he said, “Sharon, I always leave some things out.”
Bruce Campbell:
There’s always about three ingredients that he leaves out.
Sharon Gless:
Yes.
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