Boris Kodjoe

Boris Kodjoe, “Extra” caught up with handsome actor Boris Kodjoe on the streets of New York to talk about his new NBC program, “secret agents”, co-starring Gugu MBATHA of Raw.

“Agents secrets” are two ex-spies who choose to live a normal life as caterers and retract into the CIA “. Kodjoe said. “Action, comedy, drama, romance – all packaged in a.’s Not going to be ridiculous not miss it!

The show is produced by J.J. Abrams of “Alias” and “Lost” fame. Kodjoe working with Abrams said was “incredible”, adding: “It’s a genius.”

Kodjoe I would not mind if Abrams’ friend Tom Cruise, who led Abrams on “Mission: Impossible III” made a guest appearance on “secret agents”. The actor said: “Absolutely, as the bad. Yes, that would be great.”

A fan asked how he handles NY Kodjoe his wife had sex scenes. “Well, my wife, Nicole Ari Parker, a sexy actress herself going through the same. Sometimes you have to look elsewhere for a while. ”

Gugu Mbatha Raw

Gugu Mbatha Raw, LOS ANGELES, California – J.J. Abrams loves a strong woman. Throughout his career, the producer has produced a lot of young actresses who could express emotions not only complex but also manage to kick some serious rear.

The mastermind of used eyeglasses to Jennifer Garner “Alias”, making her a super star as CIA agent Sydney Bristow, collected Cutie Canadian Evangeline Lilly for the role of warrior island become fugitive Kate Austen on “Lost” and Zoe Salda?a made a household name after casting his brain as in a spacesuit sexy – Uhuru in Star Trek. ” His latest import, courtesy of NBC’s new husband and wife spy drama “secret agents” – Gugu MBATHA raw-AccessHollywood.com s newest Rising Star – is the latest star of JJ ready to go.

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“It was a strange and wonderful journey,” the British beauty recently accessed, landing the role of Samantha, half the CIA spy couples the power of flowers in front of German origin piece Boris Kodjoe, in drama sexy and daring, which premieres Wednesday night at 8 pm on NBC.

After a series of memorable pieces of television in his native England, Gugu was in New York (after the play he was starring on the London stage – Shakespeare’s Hamlet, with Jude Law – made the leap into the pond -) when the call came.

“I was on Broadway when I first came the initial audition,” said Gugu. “I really do not know much about the project because it was so top secret.”

She participated in an early hearing, but without knowing that her trial had attracted the attention of senior, Oxford-born actress was actually away in a picturesque location, when he got the big call.

“I went to Egypt for a yoga holiday,” he said. “I was in Egypt, under a palm tree and get a call from my boss saying:” I want in the morning to read for the lead role “… I managed to return to London and then back to Los Angeles in a couple of days. So yes, it’s been a very strange and wonderful journey. ”

Although she is the protagonist of a series of Shakespeare plays, a spy drama called “Spooks” and Dr. TV “cult-favorite who” in his native Britain, playing Samantha – a woman of beauty, brains and muscle – has been very exciting for Gugu.

“We have a lot of tricks. It is very exciting and not something I’ve really done before,” said Gugu. “The action is definitely exciting for me, who had just come from doing Shakespeare on stage. It is quite a contrast from a real hero … It has been a new challenge to be out there doing something a little stronger and a little higher is at stake … I come to the class of hitting people and take people and punch people. It’s fun.

While work has kept too busy to watch TV while commuting in Los Angeles, the actress won the encounter with his own image one day – in public transport.

“[It was] a little surreal – the first time I saw my face on a bus. But I feel very distant from it because, I mean, many of these images are so retouched with the posters. Do not really see it and go,” That’s me, ‘”Gugu, said with a healthy dose of realism refreshing and endearing.” I see it and go, “Ooh!” Who is that girl that looks a bit like me I kind ?’… to equate myself in those pictures, many of them are Samantha Bloom, the character. So I have some distance to everything. ”

While she is currently in the midst of filming the first eight episodes already ordered the new series, there are projects already in the future of actress plate. Gugu is then on the big screen in 2011 on the campus romance “Crowne Larry” alongside Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts.

Undercovers

Undercovers, “Agents Secrets” (20:00 ET Wednesday, NBC) is great.

But if you’re looking for something more than superficial of all the looks, you may be disappointed by this JJ Abrams-Josh Reims spy drama, which ditches much that was good to show previous spy Abrams ‘Alias’, and replaces it in, well, a lot of nothing beautiful in appearance.

“Agents Secrets” stars two actors attractive raw Gugu MBATHA and Boris Kodjoe as Steven Bloom and Samantha, a catering team of husband and wife spy who gave life five years ago. Do not be surprised when they are called back to duty and be super smooth secret operations in a number of attractive foreign locations. (One of the steals of “secret agents” is that Abrams, who directed the pilot episode for the show, missed his vocation as an interior designer. Everything about the show is fabulous – even supposedly decrepit interiors are fabulously decrepit. )

But what lies beneath the surface – under the covers, if you will – are truths about relationships that also cease to amaze. Love is not always easy, is clear. Even when the two parties to a marriage are attractive and devoted, sometimes life is so uneven that I forget to appreciate each other. Visit your local store of greeting cards from other examples of “wisdom Undercovers” style.

The trick of the show’s premise is that when Steven and Samantha were CIA agents, working separately, and we’ve never talked about what they had done in the past. So they are learning about others, but “secret agents” seems so aggressively focused on saying to herself, episodic stories, these personal and professional revelations seem destined to be as cheerfully banal and inconsequential as anything else about the show .

From ‘Alias’ went off the air a few years ago, there has been a certain amount of spin about what went wrong with that schedule, some of its creator, Abrams. Let me say this loud and clear: some of us liked the mythology of the series, especially in his first two seasons. Sure, things got too dense and stupid performance later in the show, but without going into mind-numbing detail, suffice it to say that there was a lot of things that went wrong with ‘Alias’ in his later years. For all its problems as an excuse saying that secret agents “seems to be saying – that is,” Mythologies can be tricky! Let’s get rid of them! “- It takes only a short-sighted and disappointing in what works and does not work in that type of performance.

I’m not asking mono alias “secret agents” or “Lost” to the case. I ask you to recognize what we see every week with flavor-espionage operations in many, many TV programs these days. Unless we people care about these maneuvers (such as the funny ‘Chuck’ and the increasingly terrible ‘Fringe’), which just seem like the same old movements in fancier clothes. (Sidebar: If there was abandoned “[Fringe ‘Thursday 21:00 ET, Fox], I recommend you to reconnect with the series this season. He was very good in the middle of season 2, focusing on the type of interpersonal relationships and well-constructed challenge mythological elements that “secret agents” seems desperate to avoid.)

In short, “secret agents” seems determined to throw out the baby with the bath water. The key point of the program is to show sexy super spies have interesting adventures and meet again in their attempt to put the spark back in your marriage. There is nothing necessarily objectionable, but forgive me if I expect more from a series that JJ Abrams is involved in (although, given the number of television and film projects on his plate these days, I guess that their participation on the side of the small screen is minimal).

Having said all this, “secret agents” is not a task of looking. Gerald McRaney, who plays grumpy driver and little impressed by Bloom ‘is one of the main pleasures of the series, and Ben Schwartz, who plays field staff support nerd, is energetically enthusiastic (though the character may be marked down a few notches). Kodjoe Mbutu-Raw and jokes along with the pilot and air show’s production values are first class.

I’ll keep watching, hoping that “secret agents” do not run out of memory and weight below its shiny exterior.