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December 8, 2004
Michael Vartan's Alias Sneak Peek
By Dana Meltzer, Kenny Brown, KC Baker and Courtney Rubin
Credit: Kathy Hutchins/Hutchins
Spoilers!
We caught up with Michael Vartan (he was finger-painting. Yes, really. More on that later ...) and got a special peek inside Alias, returning Jan. 5.
What can we expect this season?
A lot more drama. All of the characters are definitely all going through something that's a lot more traumatic – and a lot of action. We've been shooting a lot of great action scenes and fight scenes.
Are you having fun doing the fight scenes?
Yeah. But it gets to the point where it's kind of like, 'All right guys,' because fighting, as fun as it is to do for the first hour, when you're on your 14th hour and it's 6 a.m. on a Saturday, you just want to go home. But it's fun. It's kind of like when you're a kid (and) you dream of being James Bond.
What are you doing to prep for the fight scenes? Are you working with trainers?
No, not really. I play a lot of sports so I'm kind of always in relatively good shape. Our fight coordinators are so good and they make fights on camera that look so elaborate that they are actually pretty easy to do. And we have great stunt doubles when things get a little too complicated. Like, on Monday, I'm fighting this guy who's 6'6", 240 lbs. and, in real life, he could crush me with his hand. But I'm going to take him out and throw him across the room and it's going to look real – well, relatively real.
Has this made you feel like you could take someone on in real life if you had to?
No. The one thing, if I ever get into a fight, is I run very fast. You know, I'm 36. My testosterone levels are lowering. Fighting's just a waste of time. Best case scenario, you don't get hurt and you don't get arrested, right?
So, back to the finger-painting. Vartan, along with Jennifer Garner, Sarah Jessica Parker, Kevin Kline, Fred Durst, Sean Hayes and Donald Trump, painted 40 donated Gibson electric guitars, which the Pediatric Epilepsy Project will auction off to benefit UCLA's Pediatric Neurology Department.
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