For the last five years, Zachary Levi has gotten to go to work everyday and play a superhero of sorts. Chuck Bartowski started out a seemingly normal guy who was smarter than most but kind of direction-less when it came towards life outside of video games. He could do anything– he could save the world– but he hadn’t been challenged to do so yet. And then all of a sudden he received a surprise email from an old college friend– an email that would change his life, introduce him to the love of his life, and show him his true capabilities. In many ways, his character might have been a perfect parallel to Levi’s own life. Having co-starred on a sitcom prior to landing the leading role on Chuck, Levi had not truly tapped into his own full potential in Hollywood– or on the world. But what the show was about to unfold for him was just how great his reach could be. Let’s all just be thankful he has chosen to use his power for good! Here Levi opens up about his time on Chuck, reflecting on everything from meeting his partner-in-virtual-crime Joshua Gomez, to where he wants to go from here.

Shooting the pilot was pretty much just playtime for Levi and Gomez. “That pilot was just a really magical time. It’s crazy to think that it’s been five years since we did that. You know, it’s like any memory like that: it seems like it was yesterday, and it seems like it was a lifetime ago… Having just barely met each other, but I brought my Xbox and “Gears of War,” which had just come out– the original– and I had hooked it up to a flat screen in our store, and we were just sitting there in between takes…The director would yell for us to come back, but we were having a blast!”

For the last five years, Zachary Levi has gotten to go to work everyday and play a superhero of sorts. Chuck Bartowski started out a seemingly normal guy who was smarter than most but kind of direction-less when it came towards life outside of video games. He could do anything– he could save the world– but he hadn’t been challenged to do so yet. And then all of a sudden he received a surprise email from an old college friend– an email that would change his life, introduce him to the love of his life, and show him his true capabilities. In many ways, his character might have been a perfect parallel to Levi’s own life. Having co-starred on a sitcom prior to landing the leading role on Chuck, Levi had not truly tapped into his own full potential in Hollywood– or on the world. But what the show was about to unfold for him was just how great his reach could be. Let’s all just be thankful he has chosen to use his power for good! Here Levi opens up about his time on Chuck, reflecting on everything from meeting his partner-in-virtual-crime Joshua Gomez, to where he wants to go from here.

Shooting the pilot was pretty much just playtime for Levi and Gomez. “That pilot was just a really magical time. It’s crazy to think that it’s been five years since we did that. You know, it’s like any memory like that: it seems like it was yesterday, and it seems like it was a lifetime ago… Having just barely met each other, but I brought my Xbox and “Gears of War,” which had just come out– the original– and I had hooked it up to a flat screen in our store, and we were just sitting there in between takes…The director would yell for us to come back, but we were having a blast!”

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