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" It&amp;#039;s been a while since we&amp;#039;ve had an action-packed drama series on our screens, but thankfully, Human Target has come along to fill that void. Simultaneously aimed at the geeks (it&amp;#039;s based on the DC comic of the same name) and the &amp;#039;real men&amp;#039; (the fight scenes could send Jason Statham to the job centre), the story follows Christopher Chance, a man who likes to live life on the edge by assuming the identity of those in danger. Recently, Tube Talk caught up with Jackie Earle Haley, who plays Chance&amp;#039;s computer-savvy sidekick Guerrero. What was it about the show that appealed to you? &amp;quot;I read the script and I just thought it was real kick-ass; I thought it was a lot of fun. I liked how it was just kind of comic-book related, that it was light in tone, that it seemed to be this really cool kind of action hero character. And it&amp;#039;s very well written.&amp;quot; How would you describe Guerrero? &amp;quot;That\u2019s what\u2019s fun about this - it seems like we\u2019re kind of all learning it together. Obviously, we\u2019ve done more shows than what you\u2019ve seen, but with this guy I\u2019m just coming up with more questions for him than we are with answers. But I think as each week starts to go along, we start to add a little bit more of Chance\u2019s background. There is some event in his past that was quite a pivotal event that kind of caused Chance to kind of go from one side to another, and I think Guerrero was a part of that.&amp;quot; He used to have a dark side? &amp;quot;That holds a lot of interest for me; I definitely know that Guerrero has worked on the dark side of things and now he\u2019s working on the more righteous side of things with Chance, but what\u2019s neat about Guerrero is you never really quite know where his loyalties lie. It\u2019s really fun riding that line with the writers and stuff. I don\u2019t think we want to get to those answers real quick; I think it\u2019s fun kind of exploring the multi-dimensionality of this guy, and seeing where it leads and who he is and what makes him tick.&amp;quot; When will we start to learn more about the backstory of each character? &amp;quot;I think that to us from the very beginning, the backstory of these three guys was important, and not just as a mystery for its own sake, but it defines where they came from and their shared experience defines their relationships now. I think it was interesting to us that they all share this one traumatic, but also sort of very big kind of mythic experience. I think before the end of this season, you\u2019re going to learn a lot more about them and a lot more about that event.&amp;quot;  What&amp;#039;s it like working with Mark Valley? &amp;quot;Mark is an awesome guy. He\u2019s fun to hang around with. He\u2019s just a wonderful actor and I specifically love what he\u2019s doing with Chance. This thing is so wonderfully kind of steeped in that \u201880s tone like Die Hard or A-Team, and I think Mark just seems like he\u2019s nailing it.&amp;quot; You did Watchmen and now you&amp;#039;re involved in Human Target. What&amp;#039;s with all the DC properties in your resume? &amp;quot;I purchased some stock in the DC Universe. I don\u2019t know; I guess I got some good buddies over at DC. Yes, some of it\u2019s not coincidence. I guess the DC guys thought of me for this after Watchmen! DC comics are awesome. After Watchmen, I really started to kind of get into the comic book world.&amp;quot; Who have you got coming up in the way of guest stars? &amp;quot;I don\u2019t want to ruin it but we\u2019re all big X-Files fans here so there\u2019s an actor who played a big role in that show who we were able to get and come play a fun role for us in an episode called Run that I think airs in two weeks. Mitch Pileggi and Autumn Reeser came on to do a show, and Kevin Weisman from Alias. So there\u2019s some good stuff coming down the pike.&amp;quot; Human Target continues Wednesdays at 8pm on Fox in the US and is due to begin later this year on Sci Fi in the UK. What do you think of the series so far? Add your comments to this entry below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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