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"At our recent 24 fan event, series star Mary Lynn Rasjkub was good enough to take part in a Q&amp;amp;A session following a screening of the show&amp;#039;s final episode. For those of you who missed out on meeting the actress better known as CTU&amp;#039;s Chloe O&amp;#039;Brian, we present a transcript of the chat below! How were you originally cast as Chloe? &amp;quot;I had never watched 24. I mostly did comedy stuff before. Having just had a really bad CSI audition, I got called to audition for 24. My mum was a huge fan of the show and so she said, &amp;#039;You have to go, this is the greatest show&amp;#039;. My agent sent me some copies of the show [and] I went having crammed as much as I could before the interview. I met [producer] Joel Surnow and he said, &amp;#039;You&amp;#039;re great, I&amp;#039;m writing a part for you. I know there&amp;#039;s nothing on the page, but you&amp;#039;re great&amp;#039;. I felt very validated and fantastic about myself!&amp;quot; What was the mood like the last day on set? &amp;quot;I started in season three. We had the best crew, the best people around us. A lot happened to me on that show. I was successful, I bought a house, people started recognising me. I eventually got married and had a kid. These are all people you&amp;#039;re working with 12 hours a day, so as much as the content of the show was emotional, it was emotional to leave the people you&amp;#039;d been working with.&amp;quot; Was there ever a chance that Chloe could be killed off in the final season? &amp;quot;I don&amp;#039;t know. I take offence at the idea! Although I know that it certainly could have happened at any point, my instinct was that it wouldn&amp;#039;t happen. As far as being killed off, I didn&amp;#039;t really wake up thinking about that. The one thing I worried about was when I took over CTU. That role can become a lot of exposition and... I was worried it wouldn&amp;#039;t be in their best interests [for] my character. I didn&amp;#039;t want to become head of CTU and have all these expository scenes. I wanted the transition to be believable, that my character had all this power.&amp;quot; Which was your favourite season overall? &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s all been a really great experience, and very different. The first season I did was really exciting because I didn&amp;#039;t really understand what I was doing! Very early on, I remember kind of sticking out. I thought I was going to be fired early on and so it&amp;#039;s been a really cool evolution into people liking me because I&amp;#039;m helping Jack.&amp;quot; Do you have a favourite scene or moment from your time on 24? &amp;quot;A lot of people tell me their favourite was me shooting the bad guy in season four. That was up there. Whenever I get to act outside of CTU, I really like it. I like it when I&amp;#039;m emotional too. Like when Edgar died! Through the glass, that was a good one. Watching his body fall!&amp;quot; What is your take on some of the issues 24 raises, with regards to politics and torture? &amp;quot;Avoidance. I like to avoid those issues! People ask, &amp;#039;Why does Jack fight so much?&amp;#039; You know, nobody would watch if he was a zen master! It&amp;#039;s equal to what people will watch.&amp;quot; 24 fans have picked up on certain phrases that kept cropping up... &amp;quot;There were so many things. Sometimes we&amp;#039;d omit them [on purpose]! &amp;#039;Damn it&amp;#039; is one of them. I would say &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;m working on it&amp;#039; 20 times. [Others were] &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;ve almost got it&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;Within the hour&amp;#039;, &amp;#039;The schematics...&amp;#039; and &amp;#039;Send it to my PDA&amp;#039;!&amp;quot; Do you think the show could have continued or had it reached a natural end? &amp;quot;I think in some ways it&amp;#039;s good to end, and we had a good long run, but in other ways I think it could&amp;#039; have gone on forever. People know what the formula is, but you&amp;#039;re still involved in it so long as you can tell the stories in a different way It could have gone on.&amp;quot; Is there anything you miss about the show? &amp;quot;I got used to wearing the same outfit. Now when I&amp;#039;m on a show, I&amp;#039;m like &amp;#039;What do you mean I have to change my clothes?&amp;#039;&amp;quot; 24 - Season 8 is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Are you a 24 fan? Enjoy the Q&amp;amp;A? Leave us your thoughts below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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