“We were all feeling a great big bag of emotions heading into this season, knowing it would be our last, and it’s only gotten worse — there’s real mourning going on here,” says star Zachary Levi in between takes of a blazing gun battle on the backlot at Universal Studios. His character, computer geek-turned-spy Chuck Bartowski, and wife Sarah (Yvonne Strahovski) have tracked the show’s final big baddie, Nicholas Quinn (Braveheart star Angus Macfadyen), to the local Weinerlicious in Berlin. Their goal is to kill him. Levi’s goal is a bit more difficult. [Source]

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“As an actor, creatively, you want to do films. Films are really cool because every couple months, or however many times you can get a job… you’re playing a different character and that’s fun, but it’s also a cool piece and you begin and end. I started in theater, in my life, and I love to go back to theater, just to have the experience and to recharge my batteries creatively. There’s nothing quite like a live audience and being able to entertain them. Would I do the West End? I’d love to. I’d love to live in London. I think that first step would be to try to go and do something on Broadway, because as far as the bucket list of things, I’m like, ‘All right, do a show on Broadway… Check. Done. Now we’ll go to Sheboygan and do some region things…’”

“I’d love to go and direct some fun comedy stuff with Josh [Gomez] and Vik [Sahay] or anybody in our cast. They’re all very near and dear to my heart and they’re all such fun, talented people… I’d love to go and direct a pilot. On a pilot you really get that creative influence and I think you get the chance to put your vision into it.”

“It’d be really fun to go over on Community or any number of shows. I like the idea, now that I feel like I’ve been able to kind of establish myself as having my own show, then you can kind of go back and have some fun on other people’s shows and be like, ‘Whatever! Give me a fun little cameo.’” [Read the rest at TV Guide]

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5. THE FABULOUS SETS

The physical spaces they occupied—and in which they experienced so much character growth—for years were places the cast of Chuck spent more time in while shooting than at their actual dwellings. The apartments and courtyard were important to series star Zachary Levi, as was Castle, all for obvious reasons, but the one set he got most emotional on was when the lights dimmed on the Buy More.

“Our sets are characters as much as any of the actual characters—particularly the Buy More,” Levi said on the set of the series finale. “The Buy More was a really emotional time. We shot our last scenes there, everyone was kind of cognizant of us and aware of it, and there were about 12 of us there, including Yvonne and I, Josh, and Vik and Scott were still there, and some crew and Robbie, and we were just in a circle, standing in a very dimly lit Buy More because everyone was wrapping out. The lights were down, but we were just standing around in a circle, reminiscing about the show.” [Read the rest here]

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The secret to the series’ devoted following? Nerd appeal. Chuck made being a nerd cool. In Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi), fans found an everyman who also was a computer whiz, an alpha member of Buy More’s Nerd Herd. The show celebrated computer geekdom with a good chunk of the stories taking place in the big-box electronics store. “The Buy More was a really emotional place when we shot our last scenes there,” Levi said. “There were about 12 of us there… standing in a very kind of dimly lit Buy More because everyone was wrapping out, the lights were down. But we were just standing around in a circle, reminiscing about the Buy More and the memories we had there.” [Read the full article at TV Guide]

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Added series lead Zachary Levi, “[What has happened with Sarah] reset the clock in a lot of ways, and you find our heroes almost like you found them in the beginning of the show, which is a really cool ‘full circle’ type of thing.” [Read the full article at TVLine]

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Zachary Levi doesn’t have any regrets that Chuck is ending with only a 13-episode fifth season.

“I don’t feel like we were cut short, as difficult as it is to shut this last chapter on this journey,” he told reporters at a December set visit for Chuck’s two-hour series finale (Friday, 8/7c, NBC). “I think five seasons is actually a really good amount of time. … For something like this, which is definitely story arcs and serial, how many bad guys and missions can you go on before you feel like you’re repeating the same thing? So I feel like we’ve gotten a really perfect amount of time together and it’s been special from Day One.” [Read the rest at TV Guide]

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